"Масонские фанфары" в "Волшебной Флейте"

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Как вещает нам синопсис во вкладыше к одной из записей "Волшебной Флейты", фанфара, построенная на трёх нотах и прерывающая музыку увертюры к опере, имеет масонское значение. Та же фанфара появляется и во вступлении ко второму акту.
Кто-то умеет объяснить какая связь между масонами и этими фанфарами ?

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To quote from Julie Andrews in The Sound of Music: "Let's start from the very beginning". So let's start, therefore, with the Overture. An overture is usually a kind of collection of orchestral highlights from the opera which follows: it's a potpourri or a medley as it were. The overture of The Magic Flute is different, however: not a single bar of it is taken from the opera itself. It is a separate piece altogether. Now, this has caused some musicologists to believe that it has nothing to do with the opera, and that it perhaps was added afterwards.

This is not true, and there are two strong points of evidence which demonstrate this. Firstly, the key of the overture is E flat major, which acts as a kind of central key throughout the entire opera. E flat major is a key which has a special Masonic significance; one reason for this is that E flat major is written with three flats, symbolic of the Trinity, and also of a certain group of three men which is very central to the basic "Masonic myth", if I may call it so. Mozart was not alone in using E flat major in this way - other composers have used it as well, notably Beethoven, who also was a Mason, and there are plenty of other examples.

Secondly, the overture begins with three chords, three heavy, accented, majestic chords - in E flat major. These three chords are separated by long pauses which makes them stand out like three great pillars. Indeed, this is exactly what they represent. In a Masonic Lodge of a certain degree, there are three Pillars: one in each Quarter, next to each major Officer: East, South and West (there is no Officer of the North). Note that we are not talking about Jakin & Boaz, the usual black and silver pillars so familiar to us today, but something totally different: the Pillars of the Three Officers, who have high-sounding titles like Worshipful Master. Those familiar with the rituals of the Golden Dawn will recognize these titles, because the Golden Dawn was founded by Masons (three Masons, in fact!) and much of the Masonic symbolism was carried over into that of the Golden Dawn.

So these three chords symbolize the Three Officers - or the Three Masonic Pillars. They are the Three that rule the Lodge. Indeed, throughout the score of The Magic Flute, attention is constantly drawn to the number three in various ways.

So Mozart, by choosing E flat major - a Masonic key - and by opening the entire opera with a reference to the Three Who Rule The Lodge (the "Masonic Trinity" if you like), is by this very act symbolically asserting that what is to take place is under the aegis, as it were, of the Masters of the Lodge. It's rather like opening Lodge, declaring that everything that is to take place therein will be under the protection of the Light, under the protection of the Most High, whatever name you choose to recognize It by.

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