Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart正如他的名字Amadeus一樣，莫扎特是一個被上帝鐘愛的人。自小便被發掘了不凡的音樂天賦，8歲譜寫了第一首交響曲，作品至今都被頌為經典。當時的人們稱他為The Divine Mozart：神童莫扎特。下面我們重點關注一下他的三部經典作品和相關重點托福聽力詞匯。

Symphony No. 40 in G minor的創作可謂是一次大膽的創新和突破。

With wide leaps in the tunes, and brisk rhythms in the strings, both symphonies are part of Mozart’s Sturm und Drang (storm and stress) music. Moving forward to Symphony No. 40, Mozart breaks boundaries once more – a symphony would normally end on a more positive note, in a major key, but No. 40 ends in G minor. It’s passionate and violent, and tragically beautiful.

wide leaps in the tunes：在曲調間的大跳躍

brisk rhythms in the strings：琴弦上輕快的節奏

passionate and violent：奔放而又激烈

tragically beautiful：悲壯而又優美

Symphony No. 38 (‘Prague’) in D major略顯憂郁。雖然維也納人民并不特別欣賞但此曲在布拉格還是大受歡迎的。

Tense and mournful in places, wistful and beautiful in others, Mozart shows us once and for all that his music is capable of a wide range of emotions. It might sound relaxing now, but the Viennese audience of 1786 found it just that little bit too stressful, and sometimes scorned his music.

Tense and mournful：緊張而憂傷

wistful and beautiful：優美而悵惘

Scorn：蔑視

莫扎特在音樂上的早熟造成了他在生活其他方面一直如同一個孩子。生活一直不如意的他，將自己的一生寫進了音樂里。

Symphony No. 41 (‘Jupiter’) in C major正如他的一生，跌宕起伏，令人回味。

The majestic C major blaze of the ‘Jupiter’ symphony takes the best features of Mozart’s style and fits them all together in a fantastic five-movement musical jigsaw. It’s a fantastic conclusion to Mozart’s symphonies; perhaps he knew it would be his last.

Majestic：磅礴的

Jigsaw：拼圖