https://bit.ly/4t0NsdA 2025年聽音樂會最大的感想， 就是傳奇鋼琴家Artur Schnabel這段話說得真是太好了。 感謝大師如此承認， 讓我醒悟，聽音樂會（要獲得滿意）靠的是機緣，不用刻意去追求（聽很多音樂會）。 就算是「大師」，你也不用人云亦云地去做無謂的崇拜，自己內心的感受才是最真實的。 感謝葉綠娜老師去年在臉書分享這段話、這則故事 出自Schnabel的自傳My Life and Music, p.214~ p.215 When I played the thirty-two Beethoven sonatas in London, there was a very old g entleman, a great music lover and ama-teur. He had heard me play once before and he bought six of seven tickets, all subscription tickets, for the whole series. Before the concerts, he invited his friends, played and explained the sonatas to them; then he came with them to my concerts. And from concert to concert he became more and more dis-appointed and disillusio ned about my playing. He was near despair. So, after the fifth concert, he wrote a fourteen-page letter to me a moving letter, really-in which he said that if h e had known how I played the sonatas he would certainly not have bought those ti ckets. He practically asked me to return the money to him. Then he went on, singling out to-tain places, writing for instance, Why did you hurry in this measure? A man with your technique!' and blaming me for many other details which were not according to his expecta-tions, until he reached the con clusion: 'If you go on like this, you should stop playing Beethoven altogether. So I sat down and answered the old man. There was not a trace of irony in my let ter. I assured him, for example, that he overrated my technical abilities: if I hurried, it was simply a defect of my technique; I did not want to hurry, regret ted it just as much as he. But then I also wrote, in the course of this letter, that to buy a ticket is no insurance of happiness. The performer only promises t o try his best, but he cannot promise to please the listener. 利用Microsoft Copilot翻譯如下： (非逐字逐句直譯） 在倫敦，我曾經演奏過三十二首貝多芬的奏鳴曲。那時有一位年事已高的紳士，他是一位熱 愛音樂的愛好者，也是業餘演奏者。他曾聽過我一次演奏，便毫不猶豫地買下了整個系列的 套票——六、七張之多。每逢音樂會之前，他都會邀請朋友到家中，親自為他們演奏並解說 這些奏鳴曲，然後再帶著他們一起來聽我的演出。 然而，隨著音樂會一場接一場，他對我的演奏卻愈加失望，甚至逐漸心灰意冷。到了第五場 之後，他幾乎陷入絕望，寫了一封長達十四頁的信給我——那是一封真摯而動人的信。他在 信中坦言，如果早知道我演奏奏鳴曲的方式，他絕不會買下那些票。他甚至幾乎要求我退錢 。信裡，他逐一挑出細節，譬如質問我：「為什麼在這個小節裡急促？以你這樣的技巧！」 並且責備我許多不合他期待的地方。最後，他得出結論：「如果你繼續這樣下去，你就應該 完全停止演奏貝多芬。」 我靜下心來，回覆了這位老人。我的信裡沒有一絲諷刺。我向他坦承，他高估了我的技術： 若我顯得急促，那只是技巧上的缺陷；我並不想如此，我和他一樣感到遺憾。但我也在信中 寫道，買票並不是幸福的保證。演奏者只能承諾盡力而為，卻無法保證能讓每一位聽眾滿意 。 --

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