pianist from the sea

Chapter 169 Don't worry, we still have time
Professor Claus spoke very clearly, and he looked at Fu Tiao with determination, without any hesitation.

His aura also affected many people around him, making them dare not have any intention of resisting.

It's just that the effect on the students upstairs is not particularly good. After all, the target people are not them, and the distance is still a bit far away.

Wu Hong looked at Professor Claus, and couldn't help turning his head to ask Chen Ying in a low voice.

"That...Ying, who is this old man? I have been in school for more than three years, how come I haven't seen him once? And how do these professors look at him, feeling so respectful? It seems that this professor is awesome Do you know him?"

"Professor Klaus Hellewick... Don't you know him? You haven't heard his name?" Chen Ying looked a little silly at the man in front of her. She never thought that Professor Klaus would appear.

"Professor Claus...is he awesome?"

"Actually, it's not very awesome...is it?"

Chen Ying looked at Klaus with a strange expression, and whispered: "He is also the head of the piano department of the Berlin University of the Arts in the previous session, and the teacher of the head of the piano department this time has also brought out several international piano departments. The winner of the competition, who used to be a student of William Kempf, is currently serving as the chief judge in many piano competitions around the world. As far as I know, there are many competitions, such as Tchaikovsky International Piano Competition and Leeds International Piano Competition , Hamamatsu International Piano Competition, and at the same time, his students can basically be said to occupy the vast majority of conservatories in Germany, except for the Hannover Conservatory of Music in West Germany."

Speaking of this place, Chen Ying suddenly raised her head, looked at the ceiling above her head, thought for a while, and hesitated.

"Well, I remember, it seems that Professor Claus's main influence is on the side of East Germany, especially after he came to Berlin from Folkwang, because when the top professors in Hannover were still there, the students of those professors All over the world, occupying the entire German piano teaching, even though he taught many top professors at that time, he was a little weak in the face of those in Hannover, and he could only let his students use Berlin as the base to radiate around .

Later, after those top piano professors in Hannover were old and dead, and they didn't teach much, Hannover's influence plummeted. It was at this time that Professor Klaus gave the name of the Berlin University of the Arts. Go out and gradually take over the reputation of Hannover and become the world's top conservatory. It can even be said that the piano department of Berlin University of the Arts can have the influence it has today, and Professor Klaus takes half of the credit. "

"This, so strong?" Wu Hong was dumbfounded when he heard it, and his voice was accidentally a little louder, and then he quickly covered his mouth and asked in a low voice: "Wait, you just said...he is William Kempf's student?"

"Huh? You actually know William Kempf?" Chen Ying glanced at Wu Hong in surprise, never expecting him to ask such a question, she couldn't help poking Wu Hong with her elbow, and said with a smile: "Amazing, After following me for so long, you finally have a little understanding of the master of the piano."

"William Kempf, who doesn't know, is a representative of the German-Austrian school. I heard that his teacher was a student of Liszt! So... Fu Tiao can be regarded as a member of the German-Austrian school. Are you a mainstream inheritor?" Wu Hong was a little surprised, and then he was even more envious: "Awesome, you have the opportunity to enter the mainstream inheritance line of the German-Austrian School at such a young age."

Chen Ying couldn't help nodding: "That's right, Kempf still learned his composition from Brahms' students, he can definitely be regarded as the real leader of the German-Austrian school, but unfortunately he is dead, after his death His students did not follow the German-Austrian school, but they all had their own styles. For example, Mitsuko Uchida, who is an authority on Mozart, and the Turkish national treasure pianist Itil Biri, almost all of his students have become A world-class top boss, Professor Klaus is obviously a bit weak."

"Professor Klaus is not weak, is it? I heard you say that, I feel that Professor Klaus is already very strong?" Wu Hong was full of doubts.

Chen Ying couldn't help but paused when she heard it, and then sighed: "You're right, Professor Klaus is already very strong, mainly because the German-Austrian School is declining, although the reputation of the German-Austrian School has been destroyed. Going abroad, there are many students in Huaguo who follow the route of the German-Austrian School, such as Li Diyun and Shen Yu. They were students of the Hannover Conservatory of Music of the German-Austrian School more than ten years ago. It's really about to blow the reputation of the German-Austrian School to the outside world.

It's just a pity that Li Diyun's performance is becoming more and more unstable now, the chance of being able to perform at a super-level scene is getting lower and lower, and the chance of overturning is getting higher and higher, let alone Shen Yu, his father has a problem with his brain, Shouting that his son is a pianist, not a student, none of you are worthy to teach him, and then offended the professor who followed at the Hannover Conservatory of Music. I returned home from Hannover with my suitcase, and there was no further news.

But Shen Yu is actually quite a good person. After he returned to China from Hannover, he always felt that he owed his father. Looking at his father who was getting more and more irritable, he even thought about finding someone who could make his dream come true. Show, to see if I can solve my father's knot in my heart, and let my father cheer up again, it's just..."

Speaking of this, Chen Ying suddenly chuckled, poked Wu Hong, and said amusedly, "Boss Wu, guess what his father did?"

"How do I know..." Wu Hong was helpless, then raised his head and thought about it. Based on what Chen Ying said before, he couldn't help but speculate: "Father is kind and son is filial, the two sides are in harmony, and together they become the world's top pianist?"

"How is it possible~" Chen Ying couldn't help laughing when she heard it, and patted Wu Hong lightly.

"Let me tell you, the situation at that time was very interesting. Shen Yu's father went crazy in the video, saying that he didn't destroy his son, and then asked whether the TV station was sent by netizens to insult him, and then brought Scolding his son, asking him whether he is a qualified father, why did he feel sorry for him, he actually wanted to send a TV station to destroy him, insult his reputation, and then slam the door and leave, but Shen Yu was very Sitting helplessly in the living room, there is a certificate of appreciation specially for his father hidden behind him."

"This……"

Wu Hong was stunned when he heard it. He didn't expect this ending at all, so he could only laugh helplessly: "This... can barely be regarded as filial piety, right?"

"Eh? Indeed, but maybe it's the 'father's kindness' filial piety. Zi filial piety is true son filial piety. As for his father...it's hard to say. According to him, he really loves Shen Yu very much. He loves Shen Yu more than anyone else." We all hope that Shen Yu will live well." Chen Ying shook her head, but didn't say much.

After all, she is just an outsider, and everyone else is just an outsider.

This is a private matter of his own family. Although you can really criticize his father for being unethical when you talk about it, if you really go deep into the conversation, Chen Ying still feels that she is not easy to talk about. After all, every family has every family. things.

Everyone is rumoring that his father ruined Shen Yu's life, but what is the real situation?Could it be because Shen Yu's temperament is too soft, he listens to what he says, and doesn't have any opinions of his own?
As for his father, it is possible that he had a good intention. In the era when everyone was still poor, he really sold everything that could be sold in his family, and devoted all he had to give Shen Wenyu the best. Studying the environment, at all costs, looking for all the places where you can make money, trying to make money, owed a lot of debt, and even went to jail.

He made money not for himself, but to enable Shen Wenyu to continue learning piano and fulfill Shen Wenyu's dream.

Therefore, when Chen Ying talked about this place, she stopped talking, and simply stated what she knew. After struggling with the internal causes she analyzed for a long time, she finally didn't say much. Can turn the topic back to Klaus who was chatting with Fu Diao in front of him, and continued.

"Forget it, let's not talk about Shen Yu. Talking about Shen Yu is too heavy. Let's go back to Professor Klaus. It's normal that you don't have an impression of Klaus. After all, according to my memory, I remember that he has lost his mind a long time ago. How to bring students, because he is relatively old, he can even be regarded as a semi-retired state, he just often chats with a few of his students, hardly participates in the actual teaching work, and even his professor title has begun to contact the school If Li is replaced by an honorary professor, it is really rare, even rare, for him to be able to come out of the mountain."

"really……"

Wu Hong looked at Fu Tiao from above, and couldn't help but nodded slightly.

Just like what Chen Ying said, Professor Klaus's coming out and accepting Fu Tiao as a student has exceeded everyone's expectations, not only Chen Ying's students, but also those professors off the stage.

However, they glanced at each other and did not speak. They just looked at Klaus helplessly and sighed in their hearts.

Before they guessed that Fu Tiao might not be in line with their line, they might invite some people who are no longer teaching to come out to support the scene, but who would have thought that before they invited them, they would have already stood up first and directly invited Fu Diao to study with him.

As far as Fu Tiao was concerned, he didn't feel anything, but looked at Klaus with a little curiosity, and couldn't help asking: "Then, Professor Klaus, I would like to ask, what exactly... is considered to be system mastery. "

"It's actually very simple. This is the real essence of the German-Austrian School."

Klaus was not surprised by Fu Tiao's speech, his eyes were fixed on Fu Tiao, and his tone was extremely calm.

"What exactly is the German-Austrian School, many people have never had a concept, and many people even think that only the students in the German-Austrian School can be regarded as the German-Austrian School, but in fact, this is not the case!
The German-Austrian School is an inheritance of the Vienna Classical School. The inheritance began to flourish from Liszt, with Liszt as the main line of inheritance. Although we can go back to Czerny, Beethoven, and even Haydn Mozart, Haydn Mozart, There are even too many students in Czerny, and almost everyone on the German-Austrian school is from the Liszt branch, so we generally start with Liszt as the German-Austrian school.

It’s just that compared with the traditional impression of Liszt’s brilliance, the German-Austrian School did not pay too much attention to the element of brilliance during the development process. What we care about is the essence of music, which is the most basic Let me give you the simplest example of the help of music theory to performance. Take a work you have performed, Chopin Piano Ballade No. [-]. You should know this work, right? "

"I know." Fu Tiao nodded.

"So, what is the chord at the beginning of this piece?"

"C, Es, As, H." Fu Tiao didn't hesitate at all, and then he was a little puzzled: "This chord is a Napoli sixth chord, I know this, and I don't need to explain it too much."

"That's right, the Neapolitan sixth chord."

Klaus couldn't help grinning when he heard it, turned around and faced the piano with his body still looking at Fu Tiao, raised his hands, pressed them slowly on the piano, and slowly pulled it up .

The chords at the beginning of Chopin's First Piano Ballade are like singing and weeping, flowing slowly from the resonance box.

The speed is not fast, even lower than normal, but under Krause's playing, the music becomes extremely transparent.

You can even hear what Klaus thinks about music, and even feel that you can hear the blood and flesh under the skin of the music.

Fu Tiao couldn't help being taken aback when he heard it. This music seems to be his previous performance?

Almost exactly the same feeling as he played back then.

"The Napoli sixth chord is a special chord formed by the root flattened semitone of the first inversion chord in the second degree of the minor scale. We record it as N6 in terms of chord techniques. This chord has a wide range of uses, except for the minor scale itself. In addition to some dark and obscure colors, this chord also gives people a crying mood. Therefore, just like your performance just now, crying like a song, this kind of performance is very beautiful, and I like it very much.

But... there is another thing in the music, I don’t know if you have noticed, that is, at the beginning, Chopin did not start the chords according to the normal Viennese classical music school, and gave the main chord directly from the beginning as a reminder sound?After all, we all know that the simplest method in music is to use 1, 4, 5, 1 to advance. At the beginning, we must focus on the main chord, and then advance to other chords. In this place, Chopin did not use the tonic chord, but the N6 chord, which is the Napoli sixth chord. So, what does this mean? "

Klaus smiled at Fu Tiao, returned his hands to the beginning position, and started playing again.

This time the performance was still extremely slow, but it was also excellent. Compared with the weeping performance of Fu Tiao when he played Chopin before, when he interpreted, he always felt that there was something more, and the depths of his heart seemed to change. A lot more empty, with a lot of confusion, chaos, can't find the direction.

Everything was plunged into darkness, and there was no longer any ray of light.

The sense of narrative in the music is interpreted very clearly by Klaus.

"This ballad, or the role of this ballad, is to tell you a story, so what does this story mean to you? Is it the sea? Helplessness at sea? Or in the cabin the darkness of the world, or even... the despair of the Titanic falling into the ocean?"

When talking about the Titanic, people around couldn't help but let out a friendly laugh, but unfortunately Fu Tiao didn't understand, he was still thinking about what Klaus said.

Klaus didn't care about Fu Tiao's thoughts, continued to play the music in his hand, and then spoke easily.

"The essence of music, for me, is a process from relaxation to tension, and then from tension resolution to relaxation. The audience listens to this process. I often think about it. Thinking about this music is for me. , what exactly does it mean, why do I interpret this music, and what kind of feeling do I want to bring to the audience.

From a single system, gradually to the system of a composer, then to the system of a school of age, and finally to the system of the entire music.

From childhood to adulthood, let the music flow and let yourself be displayed in the music.

I don't care whether your method of interpretation is closer to the purity and purity of the French school, or the virtuosity of the Russian national school. What I care about is that when you play, your What exactly is the brain thinking.

Why do we say that it is difficult for a pianist? We do not mean that it is difficult to perform a piece of work. Focusing on this piece of work for five or sixty years, can you still not know how to play it?
The most difficult thing for a pianist is restraint!
No matter how excited, happy, or even intoxicated the audience sounds for this piece of work, your heart must be restrained and calm, and let your heart blend with the audience, feel the emotions of the audience, and drive them At the same time, you need to make yourself like a bystander and not be moved by it.

This is the idea and direction of the German-Austrian School, the purest rationality and logic.

I don't know if you... like this feeling? "

Bang!
The final chord of the piano fell, and a sense of comfort from depression to relaxation rose instantly. Looking at Klaus in front of him, he couldn't help but feel a sense of relief, his lips moved slightly, and when he was about to say something, Klaus shook his head slightly first .

"Dior, you don't have to give me an answer right now, you may be driven by the emotions just now, and you are irrational.

We still have a lot of time, there are still many months before the start of school, and even three months before the registration time, and you still have to go on tour, so I hope you will think about it first, think about what you are Come back and give me a reply after you need it, I've been here all the time, and I won't leave. "

After that, he smiled at Fu Tiao, got up from the piano, walked slowly to the bottom of the stage, pushed open the door on the side of the stage, walked into it, and disappeared into the concert hall.

(End of this chapter)