善意的欺騙
The composing career of Albert Roussel got off to a wayward start, and received one of its biggest boosts from a lie.
Roussel was orphaned at the age of eight and went to live with his grandfather. He built on the music he had learned from his mother, entertaining himself by reading through the family music collection and playing operatic selections and popular songs on the piano.
Three years later Roussel’s grandfather died, and his mother’s sister took him in . Her husband arranged for young Albert to take piano lessons. Summer vacations at a Belgian seaside resort added a second love to his life—the sea. He studied to be a naval cadet, but still made time to study music.
In the French Navy, while he was stationed on a cruiser based at Cherbourg, he and two friends found the time to play the piano trios of Beethoven and other composers. Roussel also began composing. At the Church of the Trinity in Cherbourg on Christmas Day 1892, he had his debut as a composer with the performance of his Andante for string trio and organ.
That success encouraged Roussel to write a wedding march, and one of his fellow naval officers offered to show it to a prominent conductor, Edouard Colonne. When Roussel’s friend returned with the manuscript, he reported that Colonne had advised Roussel to give up his naval career and devote his life to music.
Not long afterward, at the age of 25, Roussel did just that. He applied the self-discipline, conciseness, and spirituality that he had developed in the navy to his composing and became a major force in twentieth century French music. As for Eduoard Colonne’s inspiring advice that Roussel devote his life to music—Roussel’s navy friend later admitted that he had made it up and that he had never even shown Roussel’s manuscript to the conductor.作曲家阿爾伯特•魯塞爾的創作生涯起初莫測不定，但卻在一次謊言中獲得了極大的飛躍。
魯塞爾在八歲時成爲孤兒，和他的祖父一起生活。從母親那裏學到的音樂知識爲魯塞爾的音樂事業奠定了基礎，他遍讀家裏的音樂書籍，在鋼琴上彈奏歌劇選集中的選段和流行歌曲，以此來娛樂和豐富自己。
三年後，魯塞爾的祖父去世了，姨母收留了他。姨父安排年幼的魯塞爾去上鋼琴課。魯塞爾的暑假都是在比利時的一處海濱勝地度過的，於是，他的生命中又多了一份愛好，那就是對大海的熱愛。魯塞爾成爲了海軍軍校的學生，但他依然騰出時間來學習音樂。
在法國海軍服役期間，魯塞爾被派到一艘駐紮在瑟堡的巡洋艦上。他和兩個朋友抽空就會一起演奏貝多芬和其他作曲家的三重奏鋼琴曲。魯塞爾還開始去嘗試譜曲。1892年聖誕節的那天，魯塞爾作爲一名作曲家在瑟堡的三一教堂進行了首演，他的演出作品是（絃樂三重奏與風琴的）《行板樂曲》。
這次成功激勵魯塞爾寫出了一首婚禮進行曲，他的一位海軍軍官戰友提出要把這首曲子拿給著名指揮家埃多爾德•科龍內過目。這位朋友拿着樂譜手稿回來後告訴魯塞爾，科龍內建議他放棄海軍生涯，投身於音樂事業。
不久後，25歲的魯塞爾的確照做了。他把在海軍服役期間培養出的律己、簡練和靈性脫俗應用於自己的音樂創作之中，併成爲20世紀法國音樂界的一個主力。而至於埃多爾德•科龍內鼓舞他獻身音樂事業的建議，魯塞爾的那位海軍朋友後來承認說，那是他自己瞎編的，他壓根就從未把魯塞爾的樂稿拿給那位指揮家看過。
