演奏音乐和发出的声音之间的关系是复杂的,是模棱两可的,所以马克·吐温开玩笑说,瓦格纳的作品用眼睛看比用耳朵听好。如果我们要阐明从1750年至今欧洲和美国的音乐史,我们就必须了解产生钢琴音响的特殊环境。从钢琴发明出来以后不到半个世纪起,直到今天,钢琴始终是作曲家的主要创作工具。钢琴音乐是人们进行实验活动的卓越的场地。 The relationship between playing and making sounds is complicated and ambiguous, so Mark Twain jokes that Wagner’s work is better with eyes than with ears. If we are to elucidate the history of music in Europe and the United States from 1750 to the present, we must understand the special circumstances that produce piano sound. Less than half a century after the piano was invented, the piano has always been the main creative tool of the composer. Piano music is an excellent venue for people to experiment.