pianist from the sea

Chapter 257 Enthusiasm, Desire, Confrontation
April 4, Berlin, sunny
Fu Tiao did not choose to stay in Essen to listen to other people's concerts, but chose to take the nearest ICE train and headed straight for the main train in Berlin.

After throwing his own clothes at the house on Xuandihou Road, he changed into a set of clean clothes and took the S-Bahn near his home directly to the school.

Perhaps because of the sunny weather, there were not many people in the school, not even in the piano room.

Faced with such a sunny weather, people in Europe, especially Germany and even the upper Netherlands, would prefer to soak in the sun and enjoy the sun, rather than stay in a lifeless house, doing those things. The cookie cutter exercises work.

So in the Tiergarten forest near the school, you can see naked men and women lying on the grass everywhere.

Those who are a little bit ashamed will wear shorts, while those elderly aunts don't even wear shorts, just lie in the forest directly, enjoying the sunshine.

After Fu Diao came out of the train station near Tiergarten, he bypassed countless white bodies enjoying the sun, walked through the forest under the broken sunlight, and arrived near the school.

"Morning! Dior!"

"Morning, Ms. Kate!"

After Fu Tiao and Ms. Kate, who was in charge of signing in today's piano room at the school gate, nodded with a smile, they did not directly enter the school's piano room. asked Ms. Kate.

"Ms. Kate, can you help me see the current situation of my teacher Klaus? Is he in class now, or is he teaching?"

The first class that Fu Diao mentioned was a one-to-one class.

For the following teaching, I asked Professor Klaus if he had any major classes in the last school year.

The two Germans are not the same, and the English is not the same.

"Oh, are you looking for Professor Claus? Let me see..."

Ms. Kate, who was sitting at the counter, instantly understood what Fu Tiao meant. She raised her hand and flipped through the house use form beside her, looking up the situation of Professor Klaus, and asked while flipping through it.

"Dio, didn't you make an appointment with Professor Claus? You should be able to use Whatsapp and ask Claus, or call, Professor Claus is not a very stubborn person, he has a high degree of mastery of new things , does not necessarily need to be contacted by email."

"Sorry, I just came back from Essen."

"Essen? Oh, by the way, it's April now. The Ruhr Music Festival should be held in Essen. It's a very good festival. Professors and teachers in our school are often invited to perform there. And the speeches, it's a really fun festival."

After that, her fingers paused, and when she found Klaas's name, she put away the form in her hand, took out another form, wrote a series of time on it, and then handed it to Fu Tiao, smiling.

"Okay, I have found the information of Professor Krauss, about 10 minutes later, he will have a break of up to two and a half hours in Professor Krause's piano room, during which you can find him , but I suggest you don't wait too long, Mr. Claus is not a professor who likes to stay in the room very much, so... During these two and a half hours, he is likely to go out and not be in school .”

"Okay, I see, thank you."

"You're welcome, have a nice day."

Ms. Kate pushed the form in her hand to Fu Tiao, straightened up and waved her hand with a smile.

And Fu Tiao also crossed her eyes with a smile on his face, nodded slightly, took the form on the table, walked out, and walked towards Professor Claus's piano room.

The Berlin University of the Arts is a very old university. Every step seems to have a history of being almost bombed. It seems that through the gaps between the boards, you can see the tracer bombs flashing in the sky decades ago, which is enough to illuminate the entire Berlin. fireworks.

Shattered, divided, fused, united.

Countless different elements are vividly displayed in the architectural complex of Berlin, which is even enough to make everyone confused, wondering which country this style should belong to.

Fu Tiao stepped on the steps, listening to the creaking sound of the steps, even made Fu Tiao wonder whether it was because he had eaten too much recently.

From time to time, there are students from the school passing by around. Some people recognize Fu Tiao and say hello to Fu Tiao excitedly. There are also a group of people who are not piano majors and are not familiar with the piano. They have a little bit of Fu Tiao Unfamiliar, just passing by.

Fu Tiao didn't care about that, he responded to all the people who greeted him one by one, and just ignored those who didn't say hello.

Under such circumstances, he finally stood in front of Professor Klaus's door and waited quietly.

There was a burst of piano sound in the room. To be precise, there should be two bursts.

It is obvious that two completely different pianos are playing the same work. The piano sound source slightly to the left is slightly weak in tone processing and control, while the one on the right is completely shrouded in the left On top of the piano, take it forward hand in hand.

This is Professor Krause's teaching method, an efficient teaching method suitable for some people.

For those with good ears, they can clearly feel the gap between themselves and Klaus, and then try to improve it as much as possible.

Those with average ears would not suggest what to do, but would make him feel that Klaus played the same as himself, and misjudged his own strength, which made the teaching plan fail.

Obviously, the person in the room at this moment should be a girl with good ears.

As for why it's a girl...

The most important thing is the habit and method of listening to the person playing in Fu Tiao.

The man's playing power was a bit weak, and his body was not tall, about 1.6 meters. He couldn't use his own strength well enough to reach the piano.

At the same time, this person's hands should not be too big, and he may be a user with small hands. This kind of user will prefer those running works, rather than Brahms's smashing chord works.

Fu Tiao just listened to it casually, and roughly sketched out from his heart what kind of image the person who was playing should be.

And with the end of the last chord of the music, the voice of Professor Klaus came from the room.

"That's right, it's improved compared to the last time, and there are still some details that you need to pay attention to. For example, the staccato we played before is from the 78th bar to the 95th bar. You always unconsciously When it becomes legato, it feels completely different, you know?"

"Well, ok, I see!"

The voice in the house was in German. Although Fu Tiao could barely understand what he heard, he could probably distinguish most of the content.

After all, compared with German and English, the gap is not as big as imagined.

And the person who answered was indeed a girl.

Accompanied by getting up and a series of daily chats that Fu Tiao could not understand, the door of the house was opened, Fu Tiao stepped sideways to get out of the way, and a slightly familiar girl appeared in front of Fu Tiao.

Chu Yao, choyo, the former Korean may have another surname, but Fu Tiao doesn't know it.

Possibly Park?

After Chu Yao bowed slightly to the professor in the room, just as she was about to leave, she found Fu Tiao standing beside her. Her eyes lit up, and she bowed to Fu Tiao again, speaking in German with great excitement.

"Dior! Why are you here today?"

After all, she was taken aback for a moment, and when she was about to switch to English to speak to Fu Tiao, Fu Tiao waved her hand with a smile and spoke in half-baked German.

"I'm coming to class, have a nice day, goodbye, bye (schoen tag, aufwiedersehen tschuess)"

The classic German farewell three times.

Before Chu Yao could react, Fu Tiao's series of tricks made her feel dazed, she just nodded blankly, said "goodbye", and closed the door.

"?"

Looking at the closed door in front of her, she couldn't help but tilt her head, her mind full of question marks.

Wait, what just happened?Why didn't this sentence say goodbye to Germany directly?
How can anyone meet and make a big move?

This is too... too outrageous, at least say a few words before saying goodbye, right?
Fu Tiao didn't know that Chu Yao was looking blank outside the house, he just closed the door carefully and turned his head to look inside the house.

Professor Klaus seemed to have expected that Fu Tiao would come. He stood beside the piano, looked at Fu Tiao who was walking towards him, propped his left hand on the edge of the piano, and nodded with a smile.

"How is it, Dior? Did you just come back from Essen?"

"Well, yes, I was fooled by Lang Liangyue and the others to listen to Lang Liangyue, Kissin, and Akadi's performance."

Fu Tiao smiled, stretched out his hand to open the chair on the side and was about to sit down, but found that Professor Claus shook his head and stepped forward to stop him.

"Don't sit in such a hurry, wait a minute, let's go out to talk, I have been in class for a day, the room is so boring, let me go out and get some fresh air."

After saying that, he twisted his neck, opened all the windows in the room, walked to the door, and opened it.

Chu Yao still didn't leave in the distance, she just wobbled and didn't know what to think.

After Klaus took off a top hat from the hook beside the door, he nodded to Fu Tiao.

"Come on, let's go out and talk."

"OK, all right."

Fu Tiao followed Klaus past Chu Yao, nodded friendly to Chu Yao, and continued to walk downstairs.

Accompanied by the creaking of the stairs, Klaus asked Fu Tiao.

"You just told me...you went to Essen's performance, and you heard Akadi, Kissin, and Lang Liangyue. How do you feel?"

"Arkady is great, very good."

Fu Tiao spoke directly without any hesitation, and he explained to Klaus.

"Arkadi's performance this year should be a god-level scene. Whether it is the control of the space, or the performance, expression, and interpretation of the beauty of the music, Akadi has done what I think is the strongest. Strength, far surpassing that of Kissing and Lang Liangyue."

"Arkadi, oh yes, I remembered that he is really good. It must have been a long time since he participated in the Ruhr Piano Festival. I also have his records in his collection. His special performance won the prize of the year. The album of the Echo Award, the level of the album is quite good!" Klaus nodded in agreement.

Obviously he also knows Arkady, and knows what kind of character Arkadi is.

"Where are the others? Kissing? He's been in the limelight lately. How do you feel?"

"A very powerful person. His Brahms is better than mine, and he is better at controlling the concert hall. As for the other places, I don't really feel that much, but his level and strength are not bad. Lang Liangyue ...I'm not very good at evaluating."

"That's it... I'll go out first, go out and talk."

The two went downstairs. Klaus smiled and nodded to Ms. Kate who was packing up the documents in the distance. After waving hello, he pushed open the door of the concert hall and walked into the sunlight.

Professor Klaus took Fu Tiao to the back of the school with ease. After making a few turns, he came to a river.

This is the river that runs through the entire Berlin. Just like the status of the Rhine to Frankfurt, this Spree River is the origin of Berlin.

The two were on a downhill slope, and the juicy green grass covered the dark soil, gently licking the soles of their shoes.

The grass is not harsh, and it is comfortable and soft to sit on.

Although it was a bit sunny, it was just at noon, and the sun had not completely turned over the top of the head. Therefore, on such a grassy slope, the two of them could still enjoy the extremely comfortable sunshine.

After struggling to support the ground with his hands, Klaus sat down slowly, lay his body on his back, lay on the lawn, and enjoyed the sun with his eyes closed.

And Fu Tiao sat on the side, looking at the continuous flow of roads around him and the Spree River passing by cruise ships from time to time, in a daze.

"Dior." Klaus closed his eyes gently, but suddenly said: "Why do you say that you don't like Lang Liangyue? Is it because he is from China like you?"

"no……"

Fu Tiao shook his head, he looked at the river in front of him, and said slowly.

"Because I don't know why he would choose to play a work he is not good at, Chopin's Scherzo."

"Chopin's Scherzo? Is his first half Tchaikovsky's Four Seasons?"

"um, yes."

"If that's the case, there's no problem."

Klaus opened his eyes, looked at Fu Tiao who was sitting aside, and smiled.

"Because he is selling his own record. His latest record, Lang Liangyue is in Paris. I listened to his record. Although his Chopin is not as good as yours, it is still good. It is definitely not bad. It can only be said that there is no way to match his identity."

"Well, it is true, but as a pianist, shouldn't he always show his most perfect side to everyone? Why would he choose to play some works that he is not good at?"

"Because he also wants to challenge, and also wants to get rid of the shackles of not being good at playing Chopin. It's as simple as that, without so many ideas."

Klaus closed his eyes again and said slowly.

"You will understand when you play more later. You will know that it is impossible for people to play all the composers. Everyone has their own good and some works that they are not good at. Everyone is the same. Even if you don’t stop If you keep practicing, you will also encounter such difficulties, and this kind of difficulty does not mean that you can get rid of it if you keep practicing hard.”

"Is that so..."

After Fu Tiao took a deep breath, he let it out slowly.

If it was winter, his breath would definitely form a long cloud, but now it's summer, he just sighed, but didn't express anything.

"Dior, you haven't told me what you plan to play in your Ruhr Music Festival works? Although I am only your teacher, not your manager, I have no way to decide what you will play and what not to play, but Can you at least tell me? What do you think?"

"At the beginning, I will still play those two works. I will play two variations of Brahms at the beginning. Then I plan to try a sonata by Beethoven. I will choose Passion. In the second half... I will choose Chopin's Ballade."

"Huh? Beethoven's Passionate Sonata? Chopin's Ballade?"

Klaus, who was still lying there basking in the sun, was taken aback for a moment, got up from the ground with a face full of surprise, looked at Fu Tiao beside him, and said in puzzlement.

"Why did you choose this set of works? I remember that you didn't plan to play Brahms' works, and Mozart's works? Why did you suddenly..."

"Because Lang Liangyue is good at it."

Fu Tiao smiled at Klaus, continued to look at the river flowing in front of him and the slowly passing ship, and said casually.

"Although no one will think that I can be compared with Lang Liangyue, I actually want to play a god-level live performance. Lang Liangyue played Chopin, which he is not good at, so I will tell him how to play Chopin. , and correspondingly, he played Tchaikovsky, which he was good at, and I responded with Beethoven, which he was good at, it was as simple as that.”

Fu Tiao's eyes were extremely fiery.

"Professor Klaus, although it seems that I am too reckless to say this, but... I want to play a superb scene! I really want to play a superb scene! I also want to be one of the top pianists." At the same time, I also want to tell Lang Liangyue something..."

Fu Diao looked at Klaus beside him, and grinned: "No matter what kind of scene, you must show your best work, instead of just taking out a piece of work to perfunctory, if you can't play it well, you can't play it." The ones are relatively ordinary and don’t fit your identity, so... don’t show them out to be ashamed.”

"Professor Claus, you should be able to help me complete my idea?"

Seeing Fu Diao's fiery gaze, Klaus suddenly laughed.

He took out his mobile phone from his pocket, flipped through the calendar in it, and asked Fu Tiao.

"When is your show?"

"The end of June, the beginning of July, probably between June [-]th and July [-]st, I forgot the specifics..."

"So it seems...you still have a month and a half to control the work."

Professor Claus didn't put the phone away, but quickly sent a few text messages, then got up, patted his buttocks, shook off the weeds on it, and smiled at Fu Tiao.

"Although the time is a bit rushed, I think you should be able to do it. I have already turned down all the later courses. I will teach you a class today. Let's start with... Beethoven's Passionate Sonata, Lang Liangyue's masterpiece ! There is still some time now, let's go back to school and start right away!"

(End of this chapter)