Samuel Barber - Agnus Dei - текст песни, слова, перевод, видео

Dying, he was unlikely to think about his life with satisfaction. However, who knows ... After the failure of his opera Anthony and Cleopatra, he almost moved away from music. His works did not play, he was almost forgotten during his lifetime.

Barberus was never loved by other composers, his contemporaries. Maybe this is due to the fact that he never put forward "manifestos". He was always in the search, wrote on the verge of an experiment, was not afraid to combine, it would seem, “old -fashioned, outdated” techniques with unusual dissonances and hangarmonism. And, at the same time, he remained away from the “musical policy”, not interfering in the then -raging disputes about the “new music” and the future of art ... As a result, he turned out to be one between the warring camps, between reproaches in routine on the one hand And accusations of meaninglessness with another ... He was glued to the sign of the "neuromantic". No one knew what this means, but it sounded very insulting. It was almost confidence in the futility of further search ...

You can look at his fate from two different positions. We can say that this person could not achieve anything. All his life he wrote music, composed, tormented - concerts, symphony, operas, ballets. And all efforts were in vain. He did not leave the school. The operas are not placed, the melodies are firmly forgotten ... And the name itself was lost somewhere in the years - I fight on the congestion that you, the reader, have never heard this surname - Barber. Well, who is Barber? Another loser?

It sounds almost ridiculous. I will say a secret-one of his work is still remembered, they still play, but, my God, how boring it is-always only one thing ... So it was not for nothing that life has been living if it could have been from all many years, In principle, leave only 9 minutes? Those 9 minutes needed by a person to “hear” this only melody and have time to record it?

But you can look at the matter differently. His "adagio for strings" entered 20th works of the millennium. In the United States, this work still remains a musical bestseller, as withstanding the largest number of reprints on compact disks. He is invariably played at the funeral of all significant persons in America. Presidents, for example. Almost everyone knows this melody (or at least very many). True, however, often the name of the composer ... It can be found on a variety of records - soundtracks for films, theatrical productions, in the performance of an unknown organist, in concert beads ... And we can say with confidence - Samuel Barber managed to write something belonging to Eternity. Something that was not forgotten when his name is almost forgotten. The music that they will play when the last memory of those who went to the cemetery and the orchestra will dissipate like smoke ... He himself apparently perfectly understood that one day he had come out of the pen that did not belong to him.