Lederman Richard J
Department of Neurology, Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine of Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH, USA.
Prog Brain Res. 2015;216:217-32. doi: 10.1016/bs.pbr.2014.11.008. Epub 2015 Jan 17.
Frederick Delius was born in Yorkshire, England, on June 29, 1862, the son of German immigrants. He showed early musical talent but his father, a wealthy wool merchant, insisted he pursue a business career. After several failures, including an assignment managing an orange grove near Jacksonville, Florida, his father agreed to support his musical studies in Leipzig, assuming he would then become self-sufficient. Delius spent most of his adult life in France, living with and ultimately marrying Jelka Rosen, a painter of independent means, composing prolifically, and being sexually promiscuous both before and after starting life with Jelka. He contracted syphilis in 1895 and manifestations of neurosyphilis appeared in 1910. Despite periods of relative good health over the ensuing 10 years, he became progressively disabled from 1920 on, ultimately quadriparetic and blind but with preserved cognition and musical inspiration. In his final years, he completed several compositions aided by a young British musician, Eric Fenby, who served as his amanuensis and caregiver, along with Jelka, to his death on June 10, 1934.
弗雷德里克·戴留斯于1862年6月29日出生在英国约克郡，是德国移民的儿子。他早年就展现出音乐天赋，但他的父亲，一位富有的羊毛商人，坚持要他从事商业职业。经历了几次失败，包括在佛罗里达州杰克逊维尔附近管理一片柑橘园的工作后，他的父亲同意支持他在莱比锡学习音乐，前提是他之后能自给自足。戴留斯成年后的大部分时间都在法国度过，与耶尔卡·罗森生活在一起并最终与她结婚，耶尔卡是一位经济独立的画家。戴留斯创作颇丰，在与耶尔卡开始生活之前和之后都有滥交行为。他于1895年感染梅毒，1910年出现神经梅毒症状。在随后的10年里，尽管有相对健康的时期，但从1920年起他逐渐残疾，最终四肢瘫痪且双目失明，但仍保留认知能力和音乐灵感。在他生命的最后几年，在一位年轻的英国音乐家埃里克·芬比的帮助下完成了几部作品，埃里克·芬比担任他的抄写员和护理人员，耶尔卡也一同照顾他，直至他于1934年6月10日去世。
