开放改革十年,音乐书籍翻译工作有了较大进展,无论从视野的日趋开阔、从业人员队伍的逐步扩大以及译作问世数量的激增等方面来说,都有可喜的表现。我手头存有一册篇幅约十万字的《李斯特论肖邦》中译本,该书初版于1965年,印数仅六百册,版权页上且标明“内部读物”字样。所谓内部读物,即不宜公开发行之谓也,印数少到六 Ten years of reform and opening up have made great progress in the translation of music books. Both of them show gratifying results in terms of their increasingly wide field of vision, the gradual expansion of their workforce, and the surge in the number of translations published. I have a Chinese version of “Liszt’s Chopin” about 100000 words in length, first published in 1965 with only six hundred impressions and the copyright page with the words “internal reading.” The so-called internal readings, that is, should not be publicly announced that print, as few as six