pianist from the sea

Chapter 244
Even though summer has not yet arrived, the weather in Berlin is already more comfortable than in winter.

According to the previous appointment with Professor Klaus Hellerweg, Fu Tiao came to the professor's piano room at the Berlin University of the Arts.

Even standing outside the door, you can still hear some melodious and melodious piano sounds coming from the house. Although the level and strength are not as good as those of Fu Tiao, they can still be regarded as the most outstanding group of ordinary people.

Of course, this ordinary person must refer to those professional art students who learn piano, not everyone.

Fu Diao stood still, knocked on the door, and after a cry of please come in, he pushed the door open and entered the house.

The decoration in the piano room is not ostentatious, just very simple pure white walls and some tables and chairs. There are two Steinway triangles in the middle of the room.

The piano is not big, and it must not reach the level of D274, probably around B211.

However, such a piano is just enough for students to use during class. Who uses a piano specially thrown in the concert hall to play during class?

This Steinway B211 is just right for this room.

At this moment, Klaus is gently guiding a South Korean girl with a delicate figure and long black hair who looks like a porcelain doll. The girl's eyes lit up when she saw Fu Tiao, and the strength in her hand It couldn't help but aggravated it a little bit, causing the balance of music beauty in her hands to be slightly damaged.

And it was this destruction that made Klaus sigh helplessly, and said a few words to her in German.

Fu Tiao couldn't understand German, but the South Korean girl could understand German, and immediately apologized to Klaus one after another, and then reinterpreted the place just now.

It's just that Klaus still shook his head and spoke to her in English.

"Lena, let's come here first today. I feel that you may not be thinking about the piano anymore. If you want to find Fu's signature, you can also go directly to find it. We are not in a hurry to start the course. If you If you don’t want to, then you can go back first, our work for this week is the one you just played, and then you will send me a copy of Liszt’s Sonata in B minor, which is your work for this week work."

After all, he suddenly thought of something and added.

"If it's the Henle version, you don't have to copy it to me. I have his score here, but if it's another version, you'd better copy it. Remember, don't use the Ukrainian or Russian version. , The level of those versions is too bad, you will have to find me a new one later.”

"ja, ok, kein problem, ich werde es dir senden (ok, no problem, I'll pass it on to you)"

The South Korean girl named Lena nodded to Klaus, agreed, then got up, looked at Fu Tiao in front of her, her face was a little red, and she spoke to Fu Tiao in half-baked English with a strong German taste asked.

"That... Fu Dior, can I give you a copy if you sign it? It's right here, this..."

She flipped through the thick sheet of music in her hand in a panic, and found a sheet music for two pianos of Chopin's First Piano Concerto, opened the cover to the first page, and looked at Fu Tiao with embarrassment.

"Well, I like your first piano concerto very much. You played it very beautifully. It's really good! I like it very much! Can you sign it?"

"Sign it?"

When Fu Tiao listened to her speech, she was stunned for a while. Although every word was said, the position changes always felt weird, as if it was not English grammar.

Klaus stood behind and heard the girl's pronunciation, couldn't help but smiled helplessly, and said loudly.

"Lena, don't use German grammar. English doesn't have a grammar where the verb must be in the second place. If the second place is occupied by an auxiliary verb, the verb must be dropped at the end of the sentence."

"ach so, tut mir leid, ich gedacht... (ah, sorry, I thought...)"

She didn't know what to say for a while, she could only turn her head to look at Fu Tiao, and hesitated to speak.

But looking at her like that, Fu Diao nodded.

"No, it's fine."

After all, he picked up his schoolbag and was about to turn over the pen and sign for her.

But she didn't expect that she took out a pen from her pocket and handed it to Fu Tiao before Fu Tiao turned over the bag.

"I have a pen."

"Ah, thank you..."

Fu Tiao smiled at her, took the pen in her hand, and signed his name on the cover.

Perhaps it was because he had signed too many times, Fu Tiao was used to signing his name in a more artistic way, and then looked at her.

"Do you need a blessing? Or to sign?"

"JaJaJa!!! ich brauch! (I need it!)" She jumped out of German again when she was excited, then coughed twice, swallowed, and said embarrassedly.

"That, that... (cho yo Chu Yao)."

"how to write?"

"This way!"

She pointed to her name on the corner of the cover to show Fu Tiao, and then looked at Fu Tiao expectantly. Fu Tiao looked at her name, wrote her name stroke by stroke, and smiled at her. Read while writing.

"To Chu Yao, I wish you all the best in your performance, Fu Diao, how is it?"

"danke schn!!! viele danke!!! (Thank you, thank you so much!)"

The Korean girl named Chu Yao excitedly took the music score in Fu Tiao's hand, bowed vigorously to Fu Tiao, and opened her hands to hug Fu Tiao, but felt that her actions were a bit too bold. Neng smiled awkwardly, then bowed vigorously to Fu Tiao twice again, and walked out of the room with a hint of joy.

Watching the girl leave, Fu Tiao also sat down on the piano bench where Chu Yao was sitting just now, looked at Klaus who was watching the show beside him, and spread his hands helplessly.

"Sorry, I didn't expect that girl to be my fan, but Mr. Claus, you actually connived at her coming to me for an autograph."

"Haha, isn't this great? Even if she doesn't come to you for an autograph now, she will find an opportunity to come to you for an autograph later. After all, your reputation has spread throughout the school, at least everyone in the piano department We already know that you are coming to UdK to study piano."

Klaus nodded to Fu Diao with a smile, and then asked.

"How's it going? Dio, is everything going well?"

"Everything is going well. I recently signed a contract with the Ruhr Music Festival. I heard from them that you helped me. Thank you very much, Mr. Claus."

"Hahahaha, I just mentioned it briefly. I also played at the Ruhr Music Festival. The music environment there is very good. I can communicate with the strongest group of top pianists and listen to their views on music. , for you, and for me, it was a very good experience."

Klaus smiled and said to him.

"By the way, Miller should have told you what kind of performance this music festival needs? Do you have any ideas? Or what kind of work do you plan to perform?"

"Well, I'm going to play two Rhapsodys by Brahms for the first half."

Fu Tiao took out two sets of music scores from his schoolbag and handed them to Klaus.

Brahms Rhapsody No. 10, [-] minutes.

The second song, 6 minutes.

As an opening, it's actually pretty good, neither too short nor too long.

Whether it's depth or difficulty, it's both.

Klaus took the music score in Fu Tiao's hand and looked at it, then nodded slightly.

There are three Bs in German music, and the three Bs constitute the cornerstone of German music.

Bach Bach, Beethoven Beethoven, Brahms Brahms.

The German Austrian School of Music has the most profound research on these three Bs.

Klaus looked at Fu Tiao and thought for a while, then nodded at him while holding the music score.

"Okay, you play for me first."

"Ok!"

Fu Diao didn't care about the score, he had already memorized this work completely.

Therefore, he put his hand directly on the piano, and a crisp treble opened the prelude of this piece of music like the beginning of heaven and earth.

Since the most difficult interpretation of music is only those three people, Mozart, Bach, and Chopin, the piece played by Fu Diao is particularly relaxed.

He doesn't need to think too much, he just needs to fully interpret his ideas about music.

That's it.

Klaus on the side couldn't help but nod while looking at the music score in his hand.

Fu Diao deserves to be Fu Diao.

This touch, this musicality, this sense of expression almost perfectly reached the line of his approval for other performers with diplomas.

It's not the approval line of the exam, but...

At the end of the course, proceed to the line of approval for the next work.

What is this concept?
That is to say, when Fu Tiao attends class, he returns the class. He doesn't need to attend class at all. He only needs this kind of practice, and he can go back directly after coming up to listen to him.

but……

Since Fu Tiao's strength is so strong, the line in his heart can still be raised.

Listening to Fu Tiao's performance, Klaus couldn't help but think so, and the corners of his mouth curled up slightly.

And I asked Fu to come to the class not to correct some mistakes in his music, but to help him broaden his musical route.

Help him find his music, help him take control of everything about his music.

Therefore, Klaus closed his eyes and began to listen and analyze everything in Fu Tiao's music very seriously.

The room was extremely quiet, only the sound of Fu Tiao's music echoed in the room.

until the music ends.

Fu Tiao raised his hand, and just when he was about to play Brahms' second Rhapsody, Klaus suddenly spoke.

"Dior, well, let's play this one today, and we'll play the later one later."

"Ah."

Fu Tiao put away his hands, waiting for Klaus to speak.

Klaus did not immediately start explaining what Fu Tiao should do, but asked directly.

"Dio, can you do it all over again?"

"beginning?"

"Well, from the beginning, from the beginning to the end of the first phrase."

"it is good."

Fu Tiao nodded, played the beginning again and placed it in front of Klaus, then looked at him and blinked.

"Is that so?"

"Well, yes, why would you play like this?"

"Why am I playing like this?"

Fu Tiao was taken aback, raised his head and thought for a while, and explained: "I think I should act like a rock-shattering shock in this place. The position of this sound is relatively high, and I need to show more tension... right? "

"Well, there's nothing wrong with what you're playing, and there's nothing wrong with how you act, but I feel like you don't seem to understand why you're playing like this."

Klaus shook his head, also put his hands on the piano, and played casually.

"Listen, this is also ground-breaking, this is also ground-breaking, this is still ground-breaking, and this is also ground-breaking, and the tension of the music is almost the same as yours. Do you think it is your performance that is better than mine? ?”

"I."

Without any hesitation, Fu Tiao spoke directly, with a slight frown.

"You didn't give out your first strength, it should be f, I feel that you are a little less than f, it seems to be mf?"

"Then what about the second one? Shouldn't the second one be f?"

"The second one is indeed f, but I don't know why it doesn't feel like the f I want, and it doesn't match the overall feeling of the work at all."

"Why? Dio, can you describe it in words? Or use a piano to describe it."

"Um……"

Fu Tiao frowned, he licked his slightly dry lips, and focused entirely on the distinction between the music.

"Because... Agitato at the beginning of the piece? Fast and excited? It seems that the excitement in the music is not presented?"

"Then what about the third one? In the third one, I have tension, excitement, and even a bit of the earth-shattering feeling you mentioned. Who do you think has a better feeling between me and you?"

"still me."

"why?"

"because……"

Fu Tiao closed his eyes, he did start to think.

Why is it that it seems that I have done everything in music, but it is really not as good as my own?
This feeling is very strange.

He turned to Klaus and said, "Can you play it again? It's the third feeling just now."

"Well, of course, there's nothing wrong with that."

Klaus played Fu Tiao three times again, then stared into Fu Tiao's eyes and asked him.

"Why do you think this happened?"

"because……"

Fu Tiao still didn't grasp that feeling, thought for a while, and said to Klaus.

"Because... the feeling of Brahms? I have the feeling of Brahms?"

"Yes, and neither."

Klaus was almost not amused by Fu Tiao, he shook his head and said.

"Don't think that all works need to have a corresponding feeling just because you didn't have the feeling of Chopin before. I listened to your performance in the Chopin qualifiers before, and it was actually not as bad as I imagined. Don't belittle yourself."

"I do not……"

"I know you didn't, let me explain to you why your performance is better than my third feeling just now."

Klaus shook his head, picked up the music score in his hand, and handed it to Fu Tiaodao.

"Because of the marks on the sheet music, you re-read the sheet music."

"Score markers..."

Fu Tiao took the music score, looked at the content on it, and looked at Klaus a little incomprehensibly.

"Agitato at the beginning, I just said it, and this f, I said it too, is there any problem?"

"A little."

Klaus pointed to the connection above and explained to Fu Tiao.

"I didn't make the connection very obvious in the performance just now, so my feeling of the third one is obviously worse than yours, right? Even if you didn't notice the connection, you still made the connection After the connection is made, which one do you think is better, the fourth tension, or what you expressed?"

"Or, me?" Fu Tiao was a little dizzy, and he hesitated a little when he spoke.

"Well, why." Klaus looked at Fu Tiao and laughed: "You must have a reason, otherwise what is the difference from playing hooligans?"

"I sound like I'm playing better. Is this... a reason?"

Seeing Klaus shaking his head slightly, Fu Tiao felt a little helpless for a while, and could only sigh.

"Well, I really can't explain it, I can't hear the third one, and the fourth one..."

"Hahaha, to be precise, the fourth one is actually the one that most resembles the Brahms you mentioned."

Hearing that Fu Tiao was admitting defeat, Klaus finally laughed out loud and asked Fu Tiao.

"Do you know what Brahms feels like?"

"I don't know..." Fu Tiao shook his head.

"Brahms is actually not feeling, but one of his characteristics, that is, Brahms especially likes to use chords to express the beauty of music. Compared with Chopin's chords that are decomposed into lines, his chords are more intuitive. .”

After Klaus played the part he played again, he explained to Fu Tiao.

"Although I still noticed the connection part in the fourth performance, I deliberately pressed the chords of the left-hand accompaniment into a single-note connection on the connection line, which did not give this work a sense of chords. You, playing such a sense of chords unconsciously."

Klaus looked at Fu Tiao, saw his gradually clear pupils, and couldn't help laughing.

"Now you know where your performance just now went well?"

"I probably... know."

Fu Tiao nodded thoughtfully, took back his music score from Klaus's hand, looked at the content on it, and walked through what Klaus said just now.

Connections, chords.

Both of these things he played automatically without even noticing.

If so, how?

Fu Tiao thought for a while, returned the score to Klaus, raised his head slightly, looked at a painting on the far wall, and slowly played the first note of Brahms' Rhapsody.

f accent.

Adigato, fast and exciting.

The big slur above the phrase.

A small slur of chords below the accompaniment.

Ding! !

The sound of the piano sounded, and it seemed to be exactly the same as before, but it seemed to be completely different.

The spirituality that was originally filled under the music began to tremble slowly.

The spirituality of music is not limited under the music, but tries to break through the surface of the music and spew out.

Fu Diao didn't feel anything yet, but the eyes of Klaus next to him gradually lit up.

He noticed the spirituality in Fu Tiao's music.

　No one cares about me at all...

　　Whether in a group or in a book.

　　Oh, it's really cold
　　
　
(End of this chapter)