pianist from the sea

Chapter 319 The Prodigy
Wolfgang Andres Mozart.

This is the musician Fu tunes to prepare for the second half.

Today’s Mozart Piano Sonata, No. 283, K[-], is a work he prepared.

Likewise, this piece is also Fu Diao's main performance direction for this year.

No, to be precise, it should be this set of works.

In the past few months, Fu Tiao did not just prepare one piece for the concert, but a whole set of works.

For example, Fu Tiao prepared several of Mozart's sonatas.

Why did he choose Mozart?
It was not for any other reason, just because he was invited to chat with a top master who played Mozart at the Salzburg Music Festival.

The two chatted for a long time.

When Klaus was taking classes with him before, he gave him a business card and told him to go to Mozart University to find this master.

This is a master who is particularly accomplished in the study of Mozart.

Although his performance was not perfect, the number of papers he wrote on Mozart's performance was definitely among the largest.

His thoughts on Mozart's performance have also been adopted by many musicians.

When Fu Tiao came over, he originally thought it was just a simple and relaxed meeting.

But he didn't expect that he would actually meet another person.

A world-class piano master who did not attend the Salzburg Music Festival this year, and did not come to participate in the Ruhr Music Festival due to illness.

Mitsuko Uchida.

Mitsuko Uchida was sitting there quietly, with the gentle sunlight flowing down from the side, smoothing the ridges on her face, making her look ten years or more younger.

Many people have forgotten that she belongs to the older generation of pianists, not the younger generation.

When she saw Fu Diao, she was obviously a little surprised. She covered her mouth slightly and chuckled.

"Hey, Fodio, I know you. I heard you play Mozart's piano quartet in Salzburg before, and your performance was very good."

"Thank you. It's a pleasure to meet you. I heard that you were ill during the Ruhr Piano Festival. I hope you have recovered now."

After Fu Diao bowed slightly to her and thanked her, he sat in front of the master and Mitsuko Uchida and said to them.

"I'm sorry to disturb you two. Professor Claus should have talked to you, right? About my performance this time?"

"Well, he and I chatted for a long time. I originally planned to take a vacation to Sicily in the near future, but in the end I had to give up because of his request and continue in Salzburg."

The teacher looked very helpless.

"I hate the Salzburg Music Festival. Every year it is full of messy tourists. They make Salzburg a mess. They are noisy and there is no room to relax at all. Especially the group of beautiful tourists. Tourists from China are rude, reckless, weird, and speak weird English, which is simply disgusting."

"Yes, as expected, everyone hates tourists from beautiful countries."

Uchida Mitsuko chuckled lightly and asked Fu Diao.

"Dior, first of all, congratulations on your success in winning Pollini's concert. This will be a great help to your music career. You are very, very lucky to get this performance, although I did not attend your concert." , but I also know that your performance was particularly successful at that time. After all, you can casually see your name in any newspaper, but I want to ask... did you come to us today for something? ?”

"Nothing? I just want to discuss how Mozart should be played."

Fu Tiao asked respectfully to the two of them.

One of the two people in front of me is a theoretical master, and the other is a practical master.

Their research on Mozart basically represents the highest level in the world.

Fu Tiao thought that his Mozart was not as good as the two in front of him, so his attitude was particularly calm.

He walked to the piano and spoke to the two of them.

"When I played Mozart before, although I was able to convince myself to perform like this many times, every time I looked back, it always felt wrong and I don't know why."

As his fingers pressed down, the piano sounded and Mozart's voice rang out.

However, the expressions of the two people did not change at all, and they just nodded slightly.

"So Dio, what do you think Mozart is? Or...what does Mozart mean to you?"

"What does Mozart mean to me?"

Fu Tiao was stunned, having difficulty understanding this sentence.

"Mozart, shouldn't it be Mozart? Mozart's music needs to have a childlike feel, and it needs to be a little more relaxed when playing..."

"But these are just appearances, right? And my question is, what does Mozart really mean to you?"

"Mozart means..."

……

Fu Diao raised his finger.

He looked at the lights of the Elb Concert Hall above his head and narrowed his eyes slightly.

Sure enough, the lights of the concert hall are always so dazzling, always so that people can't open their eyes wide, and always make people feel sweaty and smoke rising from the top of their heads even before they play.

Just like Mozart in his youth.

What did you say Mozart was?
Fu Diao looked at the black and white keyboard in front of him and forgot about it for a moment.

He only remembered that he did not understand all of Mozart at once.

He went to see the two of them several times after his concert, until Mitsuko Uchida left due to her performance obligations.

After so many exchanges, Fu Diao's feelings about Mozart were reduced to the last word.

childhood.

This is how Mozart should have felt.

This is also the music that Mitsuko Uchida and the theoretical master both feel that Mozart should represent.

The three most difficult composers to interpret.

Mozart, Chopin, Bach.

In fact, it is just like the three stages of life.

Childhood, youth, and old age.

Bach is music that can only be truly understood in old age.

The Bach you play when you are young is completely different from the Bach you play when you are old.

And Mozart is the most important piece to play in childhood.

As Gould said, Mozart was a clown who regarded himself as a child prodigy and pretended to be a child to make others happy.

The most correct interpretation of Mozart should be the understanding and interpretation of his own childhood.

Everyone here, everyone who can successfully stand on this stage, almost everyone is the same.

Their childhoods were basically filled with glory and pain.

Even Lang Liangyue, who was not present at all, was the same.

Just like Mozart's childhood.

Mozart had the most dazzling childhood, and he spent his childhood in the enviable eyes of everyone.

It is not dependent on parents or family.

Just relying on his own personal brilliance.

And behind this light, he was in pain that could not be explained in words.

Keep practicing, keep learning.

Just so that his reputation as a child prodigy would not be taken away by others.

Even as an adult, he tried to preserve his reputation as a child prodigy.

Hidden behind the light is unparalleled pain.

Only under such pain can more perfect music be born that can better demonstrate his prodigy talent.

This is Mozart.

A genius known to everyone as a child prodigy, but also completely trapped among the prodigies.

And if you want to play with the feeling of Mozart, you not only need to understand Mozart's childhood, but also your own childhood.

And what was my childhood like...

Fu Tiao's fingers pressed gently.

The sound of the piano slowly sounded.

Mozart's work, Piano Sonata No. [-], sounded at this moment.

This is Mozart's work when he was young, and it also represents Mozart's most dazzling period.

Fu Diao's eyebrows raised slightly.

The body also shook slightly involuntarily.

This was not a show, but a real thing. He seemed to feel the power in Mozart's music.

That kind of positive energy.

Every sound of the music seems to be jumping upwards.

This is Mozart.

When the people around heard the sound of Fu Tiao's playing, their eyes gradually lit up.

"Is this Mozart played by Fu?"

"Interesting, this is interesting!"

"This Mozart feels really good!"

"..."

Everyone communicated quietly.

They never expected that Fu Tiao would choose Mozart's work as the opening of his second half.

Regarding Mozart who played Fu's tune, their knowledge of Fu's tune was limited to the previous performance at the Salzburg Music Festival, where Mozart, who had played part of Fu's tune, came out as a substitute for Pollini.

What did Fu Tiao say about Mozart at that time...

Can't you say it's bad?
I can only say that it is not bad.

Although there are not many special features, there is nothing wrong with his music, which has a relatively standard feel.

It can give people a little surprise that Fu Diao can actually play Mozart, but other than that, there is no other special feeling.

Nowadays, many people listen to Fu's music. In fact, more people listen to Fu's Chopin and Beethoven's Passionate Sonata.Although there are archives of Mozart played by Fu on the Internet, not many people listen to them.

If I have this time, wouldn’t it be nice for me to listen to Mozart by Uchida Mitsuko and his group?
Aunt Uchida's Mozart is almost a masterpiece.

And Gould's Mozart is actually quite good, because he always scolds Mozart in public, saying that Mozart's paintings are artificial, which makes many people feel that he can't play Mozart, but he only discusses Mozart. Gould's version is pretty good.

In addition, there are some pianists who specialize in playing Mozart, and their interpretation of Mozart is much better than Fu Tiao.

After all, he is a professional and has spent almost half his life studying Mozart.

But now, after hearing Mozart played by Fu, they were surprised.

They didn't expect that less than half a year had passed, and Fu's Mozart could actually become so...

So outstanding?
Yes, it is outstanding.

Compared with the previous dullness, the Mozart played by Fu now feels outstanding.

It sounds like being outstanding is not a compliment. After all, there are so many outstanding people, and nothing is as good as perfection.

but……

Compared with other composers, Mozart, Bach, and Chopin, which are the most difficult, need the most feeling of excellence.

Just different from other people.

On the basis of the correct feeling of playing Mozart, it is also necessary to give the music more personal color.

Correctness, and personality.

Both are indispensable.

Fu Tiao's fingers were fully erect, his fingertips touched the edge of the piano, and the music floated upward like clouds along his fingertips.

The timbre of each note is extremely translucent and bright.

Like a pearl, it reflects all the light around it.

Beautiful, really beautiful!

No one could take their attention away from Fu Diao's fingers.

Fu Diao's control over music simply exceeded all of their imaginations about music.

Especially in a concert hall like this.

Inside the Elb Concert Hall in Hamburg.

The sound coming out of Fu Tiao's piano hit the surrounding walls, flowing along the floor and the sky toward everyone around him.

enjoy.

Perhaps because of the surrounding environment, the music played by Fu Diao made everyone feel enjoyable.

Whether it's the normal audience sitting in the concert hall, or the group of musicians sitting in the corner.

Some of the musicians were even slightly shocked.

He looked at the others around him in disbelief, suppressed his voice and asked in a low voice.

"Fu, did Fu play Mozart before? I always thought he played Russian music."

"Everyone invited today is basically from the German-Austrian music school. Where did the Russian music school come from?"

"Fu's control over Mozart was so great. I even felt a little bit like Mitsuko Uchida."

"Compared to Fu Diao, Uchida Mitsuko is warmer, right? Just like the afternoon sun and the beach, her music is warm, while Fu Diao's music..."

"It's fluid."

Someone next to me directly defined it.

"Flowing like water, if Mitsuko Uchida is the beach and the sun, then Vodio is the sea, the boy standing in front of the sea, and the urchin playing wantonly on the beach."

"There is that kind of swinging feeling in his music. Compared with other people's Mozart, the atmosphere of children's play in the music is stronger."

"Yeah, Dior's Mozart is really interesting, especially here..."

Someone looked at this concert hall.

Elb Concert Hall, a concert hall built on the sea.

This concert hall is like a shell, surrounding the stage in the center like pearls.

This design of the concert hall adds an additional layer of beauty to Fu Diao music.

And every note in Fu Diao's hand is so round.

Not a penny more, not a penny less.

This Mozart performance.

This performance of Mozart's Piano Sonata No. [-].

Great!

Fu Diao had no idea that some people in the corner of the concert hall could not help but feel a little bit impressed after hearing Fu Diao's music.

Many of them originally thought that Fu Tiao would choose to play Chopin today.

I even think that Mossorgsky played by Fu was just a preparation for Chopin's appearance.

Who would have thought...

Fu Tiao had no idea of ​​playing Chopin at all.

He just followed his own rhythm, and after playing Mossorgsky, he started playing Brahms directly.

When Brahms ended, he still did not choose Chopin, but Mozart.

Mozart is the easiest to play and the most difficult to interpret.

Countless top pianists are trying to climb the peak, but not many can convince the audience of Mozart.

Mozart is known as one of the most difficult composers to interpret.

It's very simple to play. No one can deny the difficulty of Mozart's playing.

After all, Mozart's left hand is basically the simplest improvisational accompaniment.

That’s the feeling of chord breakdown.

Mozart's main musical melodies are basically on the right hand.

Occasionally, if the two hands change positions, it will not be particularly difficult to understand. You can tell at a glance that this is still a simple chord breakdown.

but……

How to play with the feeling of Mozart, and how to make your Mozart feeling not sound too artificial.

How should the degree of this be controlled?

This requires individual musicians to make their own guesses.

Playing well and playing well are two completely different concepts.

and so……

Fu Tiao's hands suddenly crossed.

The third movement sounded loudly.

The third movement is in G major, Presto!

The feeling of childhood also becomes stronger in music.

The music gradually becomes longer and more ornate.

Each sound seems to have its own story, interpreting its own world.

Bright and delicate.

Like a beam of light shining into a dark cabin, the space of music gradually opens up.

The music also became more and more brilliant.

After all, Mozart was a child prodigy.

A child prodigy cannot be restrained.

Since you have been called a prodigy by so many people, you must maintain your status as a prodigy.

Go and let yourself go.

Let everything in the music be interpreted in your own way.

You can be humble in your dealings with others.

But where you are called a prodigy, you have to be domineering and arrogant.

Don't give anyone any room to breathe.

No one can be allowed to deny him.

After all, this is his stage.

It should also be up to him to decide how to interpret a piece of work.

Everything a child prodigy does must be right.

otherwise……

He doesn't deserve to be called a prodigy either.

Fu Diao's hand moves more brilliantly and the tone is more mellow.

Finally, with a slight chord, Fu Tiao's fingers gently left the keyboard.

Just like a child prodigy put away his arrogance after his performance ended, and bowed to everyone gracefully.

This is Mozart’s Fifth Piano Sonata.

And this is not the end.

At least, it’s not the end of his concert.

Fu Tiao does not give the audience any room to rest.

His hand that stopped in mid-air shook slightly, then gently landed on the piano again.

Mozart, Piano Sonata No. [-].

K282, sounded at this moment.

(End of this chapter)