Ansai Mei is an honest, indomitable and determined person. He doesn't like stars, but he has become one of the greatest conductors in the 20th century. For several years, he combined music and mathematics and became a math teacher, but his love for music became stronger and stronger. After living in Paris for some time, he decided to devote himself to music and got his first chance to conduct in Lausanne. Soon, fate pushed the young conductor to the forefront of the international music stage.
19 13 One day, Anselm met igor stravinsky and later became his best friend. At that time, he had just been appointed as the conductor of the Montreux Casino Orchestra, and this meeting became a turning point in his artistic career. At Stravinsky's suggestion, Dia Gilev asked Anselmi to be the conductor of the famous "ballets russes" and held a "fund-raising concert" in Geneva. 19 16, Anselm led ballets russes on a large-scale tour in the United States, and performed 150 performances in 150 days, and performed a lot of difficult works. Anselm and the ballerina Ross rose to fame and continued to succeed. 19 18 premiered the story of the soldier directed by Anselm, and 1920 premiered Song of the Nightingale and Puccinella, all works of Stravinsky.
Ansai Mei also performed Eric Satie's Parade (197 1), De Faria's Triangle Hat (19 19) and Chout (1923). He has three jobs at the same time: in addition to his job in ballets russes, he founded the Swiss Roman Philharmonic Orchestra, engaged in music and administration, and worked in Buenos Aires, where he was asked to form the Argentine National Orchestra. Although his fame spread all over the world's major capitals, he turned down some attractive opportunities and spared no effort to serve his motherland, hoping that a metropolis full of musical life would emerge in western Switzerland. The establishment of Lucerne Music Festival is his most outstanding success, and its purpose is to provide musicians of the Swiss Roman Symphony Orchestra with the opportunity to perform in summer. He easily found sponsorship in Lucerne and successfully held the first music festival in 1937. The following year, Lucerne Music Festival became popular because of toscanini.
Busch and Bruno Walter were invited to the Lucerne Music Festival in 1939, and toscanini, who broke away from the Nazi regime at the Salzburg Music Festival. After World War II,1On July 2nd, 946, Anselm collaborated with Katherine Ferrer and Peter Pears to premiere benjamin britten's opera The Shame of Lucretius. Anselm admired Britten very much and was one of the composers who played his works most frequently after the war.
Two years later, Anselmi was invited to conduct the premiere of Stravinsky's Mass at Scala Theatre in Milan. Despite some controversy, he accepted the command of this new work, which is famous for its seriousness and coldness.
In the early 1950s, Anselmi's command career began to go international, and he often accepted invitations from the United States. He conducted 2/kloc-0 concerts in Boston Symphony Orchestra instead of sick Xie Yunyi. 195165438+The Boston Sunday Post on February 23rd gave Anselmi a very high evaluation: they prefer Anselmi to toscanini.
If Anselmi's name is often associated with composers such as Stravinsky, Debussy and Ravel, there is another composer that cannot be forgotten, and that is frank martin. Anselm thinks this Swiss is one of the most important composers of our time. 1956, Anselm premiered frank martin's The Tempest at the Vienna Opera House. It was "Music Performance Week", and Bruno Walter and karajan were on the scene. In 1960s, Anselm conducted many classic works and recorded nine symphonies of Beethoven, Brahms and German Requiem.
Although he is famous for his interpretation of twentieth-century works, the public lacks understanding of his music handling. In fact, only by listening to these records repeatedly without any prejudice can we evaluate his interpretation. The Beethoven symphony he recorded is no longer romantic, but uses a brand-new Beethoven-style musical vocabulary. At the same time, the interpretation of Brahms symphony unanimously praised by international music critics is full of generosity and relaxation of Latin nation, which reminds us of the inclusiveness of this German composer's music creation.
Anselmi's art of conducting is called "precise poet", and his interpretation is famous for his precise details and seeking for credible emotional expression. For him, the analysis of his works will never stifle the true meaning of music expression. Balance, accuracy, perfection of form and enthusiasm for performance are the key to Anselm's interpretation of music art, and they are also the reasons that move us.
After World War II, Anselm devoted himself to the creation of contemporary music works. He enthusiastically defended contemporary composers, delivered speeches, wrote articles and struggled with the twelve-tone system.
In order to clear his mind, he spent 15 years to complete his philosophical meditation, a masterpiece "Music Foundation in Human Consciousness", which opened up an infinite research field. This book was published by 196 1, but it was ignored because it was not understood. Undoubtedly, the research in this field is ahead of time, and Anselm's imaginative ideas have now begun to be understood by people.