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Chapter 201 198. Ang Lee's Fantasy Farewell, 'Le—be—wohl—'

Li An bypassed Park Dong Gun and walked to the gate, and handed over the entry certificate to the staff for review.

Waves of applause from the front court mixed with the high temperature on the stage came to the entrance of the backstage wave after wave, as if feeling the call of the stage, he took a deep breath and looked at the piano on the stage again.

As Gao Jinhan exited from the exit on the left side of the stage, the entire concert hall gradually fell silent, occasionally there was a rustling or low coughing.

The audience waited for the next contestant to appear.

At this moment, "The third contestant to appear is Ang Lee, who was selected by the Gansu Musicians Association."

The host's announcement came out again from the live speakers, "His entry for this round is Beethoven's Piano Sonata No. 26 in E-flat Major, Op.81a, Farewell."

"Come on." Staff A.

At the backstage entrance, the two staff members applauded first, and then the applause spread to the first row of auditorium outside the door, and went all the way to the last row of seats.

Boss X and Yuan Xiaoyu, who were sitting in the last row, also clapped their hands.

This pair of master and apprentice deliberately turned down their respective jobs today, just to witness this promotion battle.

In Boss X's eyes, the rounds of the sonata are more valuable than the rounds of the concerto.

"Little fish, how much do you rate Walstein just now?"

Yuan Xiaoyu thought for a while: "8.5 points, how about you?"

Boss X: "8.8."

Yuan Xiaoyu felt that this score was a bit too high, after all, the master just gave Wu Fusheng a score of 9.4 on the hammer and keyboard.

And she thought Wu Fusheng's comprehensive performance was a level higher than Gao Jinhan's.

Although the degree of completion of the two is extremely high, the gap in strength is still clearly visible.

Especially under the premise that Wallstein's ability to create a live atmosphere is greater than that of the hammer keyboard, Wu Fusheng still created a more enthusiastic live atmosphere.

Boss X knew what Yuan Xiaoyu was thinking, "We can't compare two works from different periods like this."

The mallet keyboard played by Wu Fusheng is Beethoven's late work, and Gao Jinhan's Wahlstein Dawn is Beethoven's middle work.

Compared with the later works that paid more attention to the expression and expression of inner emotions, Beethoven broke the traditional and regular form of going in with bold innovation in the middle period, and fully demonstrated his works by expanding the connection, development and ending. The colorful style of the sonata makes the music have a strong appeal.

And during this period, left behind the storm, moonlight, Walstein dawn, passion, farewell, etc., which are recognized as classic works in the history of piano by later generations.

Yuan Xiaoyu knew that Master had a great preference for Beethoven's works of this period, so he didn't say anything.

Anyway, she just felt that the master had overrated Gao Jinhan's grades.

The master and apprentice were discussing when a sharp black figure came out from the background.

In an instant, the applause from the auditorium was even louder.

Under the spotlight, Ang Lee held his head high and walked steadily. A black and white tuxedo added a touch of classical music charm to his already slender figure.

Being handsome is always a plus.

Stopping next to the piano, Ang Lee turned to the audience and bowed lightly, then turned around and sat in front of the piano, as if blending with the flowing black grand piano for a moment.

While adjusting the sitting posture, the applause from the audience gradually died down.

Because of his appearance on the stage, the audience's sense of expectation was reawakened.
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Time was burning under the scorching stage lights, and the figure in front of the piano had adjusted his sitting posture, but five seconds had passed, and he hadn't raised his hand yet.

The audience on the second floor stand on the left can clearly see that the player in front of the piano is staring calmly at the moment, the eyes between his brows are motionless, extremely focused, and seem to be distracted.

It's quieter.

The scene became even quieter.

The two audiences sitting so quietly could hear each other's breathing, and then they found each other's breathing frequency, as if they were afraid of missing the beginning of the music with one more breath.

Unknowingly, the breathing of the entire hall entered the same frequency, and the figure in front of the piano became the starting gun to mobilize everything.

Everyone just waited for him to raise his hand to let his body relax.

Li An felt that he could already hear the breeze blowing on the stage, and he could hear the heartbeat of the audience farthest from him.

Then after exhaling in one breath, he raised his hand.

'Le—be—wohl—'

first movement.

bid farewell
The three-tone interval of the farewell motive appeared just like this, like a feather falling from the sky to the strings, and the weak sound waves rippled in the air.

The audience seemed to hear it, but also seemed to hear nothing.

This sound is close at hand, but far away in the world.

It was so wonderful, Boss X seemed to see the traveler smiling and waving at him from afar.

Like Boss X, Yuan Xiaoyu was also brought into the music by this indescribable farewell motive, and she saw the flowing music.

Li An also saw it, and he showed a faint smile.

The person in the mirror must be saying goodbye to him in this tone, and he has been brewing this "Le—be—wohl—" the whole noon.

He imagined countless sounds, and at this moment he was sure that this was the sound he wanted.

Judge Liu Henglu was amazed at the timbre under Ang Lee's finger. It was completely different from the loose and solid soft playing of the storm, and it was as smooth as snow.

Still full of emotion, straight to the point to say goodbye, like the last words left by a person who is about to travel far.

Just a motive, Ang Lee amazed the audience.

From E-flat major to C minor, the tone of his farewell first movement has been established. Under the optimism, a touch of melancholy cannot be hidden.

Where does the worry come from, the ten fingers on the keyboard continued to write.

Then a dotted rhythm broke the balance of time, followed by three consecutive sets of dotted dots with a sense of distortion, until the appearance of the fourth and fifth dotted music, the music space seemed to be torn open.

A person wakes up from the exit of the space-time tunnel, and finds that his world has completely changed from the moment he opened his eyes.

A fat orange cat walked past him wagging its tail.

Recalling the bewilderment at that time, Ang Lee shook his head slightly, and described an absurd gray dream with notes from bars 12 to 17.

"Dang-dang-dang-"

The beat changed from light to heavy three times in a row, as if waking him up from a dream.

The last chord sound is like a morning light shooting into the window, bright and dazzling.

The entire hall was completely illuminated at this moment.

Immediately after, his breathing in front of the piano suddenly became rapid, and he raised his body for a moment, raised his arms with his right hand, and his left hand together, and he fell neatly in one breath!

"when--"

The rapid and gorgeous sound flow is hesitant in the three sections, and finally it is like a gust of wind blowing over the stage, like a traveler galloping on the road, chasing after the morning light.

Up to the 21st bar of the music, the hands on the keys are turned from vertical to half-lying, and the high-pitched area is running in the ascending broken chords and loose rhythms, and at the same time, the rhythmic eighth notes bring a sense of unease.

The sound of the piano enters the connecting part in a hurried atmosphere, and the music proceeds in a series of reverses to make the contradiction more intense.

The anxiety permeating the notes is visible to the naked eye, until the 35th bar, the expansion part develops the material of the introduction part, and the three motives of farewell appear again!

Instant relief.

This time it falls on the chord of B flat major, which is different from the motive of E flat major at the beginning, which indicates that the protagonist in the music has started a life that is truly different from the past.

From the 39th bar, the first movement of farewell has officially entered the sub-part theme.

The continuous eighth notes were easily drawn under Ang Lee's fingers, and they fluctuated around the sub-key B flat, like a crisp bell ringing up and down in the classroom.

The picture in Li An's mind was fixed in the fourth classroom, and the lower finger was softer.

The daytime is busy and fulfilling, but at night, a deep sense of homesickness will linger in my heart.

Fortunately, the tired life made the night short, and the music entered the 50th bar, starting a stable and peaceful life.

The notes hang in the spinning time, quiet as a song, and the farewell motive at the end reappears.

With someone in my heart, even the farewell to the past is warmer.

Although there is a brief passage led by dissonance, the result still leads to a gentle main chord.

The music at this moment is like the sound of being poured into gold, which makes the listener overwhelmed.

Even people who don't understand music can hear the emotional depth of the performer on this passage.

For those who understand, take the 18 people on the judging panel at this moment as an example, they have different opinions on the treatment of the first movement of farewell performed by contestant No. 066 on the stage so far.

But no matter whether it is praise or criticism, no one can deny it. Compared with the storm in the second round, the structure of the farewell first movement played by contestant No. 066 today is extremely clear, and the shadow of the orthodox German and Austrian piano school can be seen in the texture.

It is worth pointing out here that this movement is Beethoven's innovation in sonata creation.

First of all, in terms of harmony, there is a series of Zeng three decomposition chords in bars 58-60, which are not common in Beethoven's late works.

Secondly, in this movement, Beethoven abandons the strong and clear contrast between the theme and the sub-theme, and brings with it the blurring of the boundaries between themes. Features of Romantic sonatas.

Ao Tuo repeatedly emphasized this point with Li An in the master class, or maybe it was Lin Youyou who repeated a sentence many times.

"You can't have two themes in opposition to appear in music."

In short, in the treatment of the first movement, he not only found a way to divide the structure through Otto's explanation, but also tried his best to explore the connection between the two subjects in the following exercises.

And this connection must be inseparable from 'Le—be—wohl—', the motivation of the whole work.

Until noon today, he heard this silent farewell from the figure in the mirror.

This gave him a great reminder, and he couldn't help but think that from the moment he opened his eyes and saw [-], there was not a single moment when he was not saying goodbye, saying goodbye to the former self.

He had no choice but to bid farewell to his former self.

Homesick nights are always short.
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While breathing, Ang Li's eyes gradually blurred. With the end of the first movement, he paused and dropped his fingers.

The music moves into the second movement, an emotional Andante, the title absent.

Under his fingers, the hoarse melody line with a touch of melancholy is simple and simple, almost without any modification, nakedly exposing a fragile soul.

C minor, 2/4 time.
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Homesick nights are always short.

Every morning, every new breath, he's saying 'Le—be—wohl—' to the person in the mirror

The fresh vital signs and brain consciousness drove him to face a new life and a new self.

While saying goodbye to the past bit by bit, financial and emotional debts once weighed him down, and even made him fall into self-doubt.

Is every step of my way right, and where is I going to go every time I press a key.

Just like the second movement I pointed at at this moment, the main theme tone appeared dotted rhythm again, and the dotted rhythm and chromatic musical language created a turbulent atmosphere.

For that era, it represented a war-torn society.

In this era, why not represent the struggling young generation.

The former self seemed to be disappearing more and more, as if completely absent from his new life.

The weight of dreams in front of life is getting worse and worse, and life seems to be ahead of dreams in his heart.

Because of the person who lives in his heart and silently supports him with words and deeds.

The music comes to the subtitle of G major, which forms a contrast with the previous theme in terms of musical image and character.

Ang Li's mind was already filled with Xiaomi's voice and smile, and the tone changed again under his fingertips. The music was lyrical and broad, with the human touch of a lover.

The melody records the happy moments in the lives of the two.

However, the memory is only a few short sections, and finally returns to the theme of melancholy and anxiety.

"Dang-dang-dang-"

It's just that life doesn't stop at a certain moment, just like music always moves forward.

Gradually, the melody changed from melancholy to thinking, from calm to galloping! !
The color of the stage is brightening up again! ! !
"when!!!"

A thunderous load-bearing chord exploded like a thunder.

The hands in front of the piano brought the atmosphere of the scene to the final climax with a series of stormy dominant seventh chords.

The torrent of arpeggiated passages that follow vividly depict the activity of a bewildered heartbeat awaiting the outcome.

She said: You are a born stage belonger.

There is no big or small dream, even if there is one more round of stage, one round is enough.

Ang Lee only needs one round!
In front of the piano, he completely exploded!

Starting from the 11th bar of the main theme, the roaring bass column chords represent his inner ecstasy when he learned the result, and with the melody with a strong sense of rhythm in his right hand, it indicates that he intends to let go and do a big job.

without regret.

And when the theme of the main part moves to the bass part and reappears, the music changes from strong to weak, and the texture of the right hand gradually calms down.

The frivolity and flexibility are turned into octaves, which tests the player's performance skills and also tests the player's thinking ability.

Li An spent a whole noon thinking even at this moment.

That 'Le-be-wohl-' in the mirror was speaking to whom.

But the music has come to an end completely, and he is not allowed to think any more.

When the music came to the 82nd bar, Ang Lee maintained his final calmness, the quarter notes of the right hand and the eighth notes of the left hand were as coherent and clear as if played by one hand.

Under the hazy yellow light, the bright and clear tone is like the crystal sweat drops he swayed in mid-air.

The music goes straight to the end of the song with fearless courage, and there is no new music material, and the presentation is reproduced as it is, and finally sublimated in octaves in a high tone!
"Dang! Dang! Dang!!"

He flicked his hands for the last time and stayed for a second. Before the scene entered absolute silence, Li An had already got up, like a soaked sponge, and sweat was thrown into the air along the ends of his hair.

At the last second before the lingering sound in the quiet air dissipated, he bent down deeply.

"bravo!!!"

I don't know who stood up and shouted first, but the next second, the roof of the Cultural Concert Hall was almost toppled by applause.

Li An got up and looked at the audience cheering for him, and grinned.

Taking a step forward, he bent down here.

"Wow————————————"

There was another burst of applause.

Standing up again, he breathed a long sigh of relief. He did not know how many times he had seen the scene in front of him in his dreams.

Now this wish comes true!
Looking towards the farthest part of the auditorium, with sweat running across his eyes, Li An's vision seemed to give birth to a figure he was most familiar with in the haze.

'Le—be—wohl—'

The figure was talking to him with a smile, then waved to him amidst the applause, then turned and left gracefully.

Li An raised his hand and touched his left eyebrow, it was smooth.

'Le—be—wohl—'

He smiled back, then turned and left.

The third movement, title reunion.

Reunion after the end, goodbye after the reunion.

So far, Ang Lee's third round of the stage has come to an end.

Only the applause from the scene, the five figures of different heights at the backstage entrance, and the shabby introduction on the big screen on the stage, at least compared to the dense crowd of the first two contestants——

Contestant Li An, No. 066, graduated from the piano department of Rongcheng Conservatory of Music and studied under Professor Wei Hongjin. '

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The game continues.

(End of this chapter)