He approached his harpsichord with the air of a mortician, slightly flexing his long, delicate hands.

他带着一种殡仪师的气质慢慢走近他的羽管琴，轻轻地扭动一下他那纤细修长的双手。

What was the problem, in essence, with the harpsichord?

谁知道主要是那种缺陷？

Mr Leonhardt's life-work was to persuade the world how beautiful the harpsichord was, and how the harpsichord repertoire should be played.

莱昂哈特先生的毕生心血都花让世界了解羽管琴是多么美好的一种器，以及应该怎样弹奏羽管琴曲目上面。

By the time he was 14, Mozart had composed many pieces for the harpsichord, piano and violin, as well as for orchestras.

莫扎特到14岁时，就已经写出了许多首拨弦琴曲、钢琴曲、小提琴曲，还有管弦曲。

When he began to study harpsichord seriously, at Basel in 1950, the instrument had been neglected, or overlaid with Romantic sweetness, for decades.

1950年他开塞尔正式学习羽管琴，当时这种器要么被人忽略，要么就是用来表现浪漫风格的甜蜜感，这种情况已经有几十年了。

It did not mean playing a harpsichord strung with modern steel, or fussy ornamentation as a piece was played.

或是弹奏带有现代钢弦的羽管琴，或是演奏曲目时加入讲究的装饰。

As his hands float over the keyboard, the sound reaching his audience is as singular as it is beautiful: simultaneously reminiscent of the harpsichord, organ and a string quartet.

他的手指盘上舞蹈，独特悦耳的声传到听众那里，同时让人想起大琴、羽管琴、管风琴以及弦四重奏的声。

He learned to play the harpsichord when he was four, he started composing music when he was five, and when he was six, he played the harpsichord in a concert for the Empress of Austria.

他四岁时就开学习弹奏拨弦琴，五岁开谱曲，六岁曾为奥地利女皇举办的会上弹奏拨弦琴。

For years he laboured to find the most authentic replica harpsichord; his favourite, by Martin Skowroneck of Bremen, which had pride of place in his huge drawing room, was made of 18th-century woods.

多年来他一直努力寻找最正统的复古羽管琴，他的爱琴来自不来梅的马丁·斯科罗耐克琴厂，他的巨大客厅中占有中心位置，是由18世纪的木材制成的。