Chapter 244: Admitting defeat
Even though summer has not yet arrived, the weather in Berlin is already more comfortable than in winter.
Fu Tiao, according to the previous appointment with Professor Klaus Hellerwig, came to the professor's piano room of the Berlin University of the Arts.
Even if you stand outside the door, you can still hear some piano sounds coming from the room, tactful and melodious, although the level of strength is not as good as Fu Diao's people, but it can still be regarded as an extremely good group of ordinary people.
Of course, this ordinary person must be referring to those professional art students who study piano, but not everyone.
Fu Tiao stood still, knocked on the door, and with a sound of invitation, he pushed the door open and entered the house.
The décor in the piano room is not ostentatious, except for a very simple plain white wall with a few tables and chairs, and two Steinway Triangles in the middle of the room.
The piano is not big, and it certainly can't reach the level of D274, probably around B211.
However, this kind of piano is just enough for students to use in class, who uses a piano specially thrown in the concert hall to play in class?
This Steinway & Sons B211 is just right for this room.
At this moment, Klaus was gently guiding a South Korean girl with a delicate figure and long black hair, like a porcelain doll, the girl's eyes couldn't help but light up when she saw Fu Tuo, and the strength in her hand couldn't help but increase a little, so that the balance of musical beauty in her hand was slightly destroyed.
And it was this destruction that made Klaus sigh helplessly and say a few words to her in German.
Fu Tiao couldn't understand German, but the South Korean girl could understand German, so she immediately apologized to Klaus one after another, and then reinterpreted the place just now.
But Klaus still shook his head and spoke to her in English.
"Lena, let's come here today, I feel that your mind may not be on the piano anymore, if you want to find Fu to sign it, you can also go directly to find it, we are not in a hurry to start the course, if you don't want to, then you can go back first, our work this week is still the piece you just played, and then, you go back and send me a copy of Liszt's sonata in B minor, which is your work this week."
With that, something suddenly occurred to him, 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 make a copy, remember, don't use the Ukrainian or Russian version, those versions are so bad that you'll have to find a new copy for me when you go back."
"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 at Klaus, agreed, and then got up, looked at Fu Tiao in front of her, her face was a little red, and asked Fu Tiao in half-baked English with a strong German flavor.
"That...... Fu Dior, you signed, can I give a copy? It's here, it's ......"
She frantically flipped through the thick sheet music in her hand, found a two-piano version of Chopin's Piano Concerto No. 1, flipped the cover to the first page, and looked at Fu Tune a little embarrassed.
"Well, I have your first piano concerto that I like very much, you have a very beautiful performance, it's really great! I like it very much! Is it okay for you to sign? ”
"Signed?"
Fu listened to her speech stunned for a while, although every word was spoken, but the change of position always felt strange, as if it was not English grammar.
Klaus stood behind and heard the girl's pronunciation, and couldn't help but smile helplessly and said loudly.
"Lena, you don't use German grammar, there is no English grammar where the verb must be in the second place, and if the second place is occupied by an auxiliary verb, the verb must be thrown 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, so she could only turn her head to look at Fu Tiao, and she stopped talking.
But looking at her like that, Fu Tiao still nodded.
"No, it's fine."
With that, he picked up his schoolbag and prepared to turn over the pen and sign her name.
But she didn't expect that she hadn't waited for Fu Tiao to rummage through the bag, so she took out a fountain pen from her pocket and handed it to Fu Tiao.
"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 because she has signed too many times, Fu Tiao has become accustomed to signing her name in a way that she thinks is more artistic, and then looks at her.
"Need a blessing? Or to sign? ”
“JaJaJa!!! ich brauch! (I need!) She jumped out again in excitement, then coughed twice, swallowed a little saliva, and said embarrassedly.
"That's, that'...... (cho yo chu yao). ”
"How to write it?"
"This way, this way!"
She pointed to her name in the corner of the cover and showed it to Fu Tuo, and then looked at Fu Tuo expectantly, Fu Tuo looked at her name, wrote her name one by one, and smiled at her, reading as she wrote.
"To Chu Yao, I wish you all the best in your performance, Fu Tune, how is it?"
“danke schn!!! viele danke!!! (Thank you, thank you so much!) )”
The Korean girl named Chu Yao took the score from Fu Diao's hand excitedly, bowed to Fu Diao, opened her hands and wanted to hug Fu Diao, but she felt that her action was a little too bold, so she could only smile awkwardly, and then bowed twice to Fu Diao, and walked out of the room with a hint of excitement.
Watching the girl leave, Fu Diao also sat on the piano bench where Chu Yao was sitting just now, looked at Klaus who was watching the play beside him, and spread his hands a little helplessly.
"I'm sorry, I didn't expect that girl to be a fan of mine, but Mr. Klaus, you actually allowed her to come to me for an autograph."
"Haha, isn't that great? Even if she doesn't come to you for an autograph now, she will find an opportunity to ask for an autograph later, after all, your reputation has spread throughout the school, at least everyone in the piano department already knows that you are coming to UdK to learn piano. ”
Klaus smiled and nodded at Fu Tuo, and then asked.
"How's it going? Dior, is everything going well? ”
"Everything went well, I recently signed a contract with the Ruhr Festival, I heard them say that you helped out, thank you very much, Mr. Klaus."
"Hahahaha, just a simple mention, I also played in the Ruhr Festival, the music environment there is very good, to be able to communicate with the strongest group of top pianists, listen to their views on music, for you, for me, is a very good experience."
Klaus smiled and said to him.
"Anyway, Miller must have told you what kind of performance is needed for this festival, right? Do you have any ideas? Or what kind of work are you going to play? ”
"Well, I'm going to play two of Brahms's rhapsodies in the first half."
Fu Tiao took out two sheets of sheet music from his schoolbag and handed them to Klaus.
Brahms Rhapsody No. 1, 10 min.
The second song, 6 minutes.
As an opening, it's actually pretty good, not too short and not too long.
Both depth and difficulty.
Klaus took the sheet music in Fu Tuo's hand and looked at it, nodding slightly.
There are a total of three B's on the side of German music, and the three B's form the cornerstone of German music.
Bach, Beethoven, Brahms.
The study of these three Bs is also the most profound.
Klaus looked at Fu Tune and thought about it, and nodded at him with the score.
"Okay, you can play it for me first."
"Okay!"
Fu Tiao didn't care about the score, he had memorized this piece completely.
Therefore, his hand is placed directly on the piano, and a crisp high note opens the music as if the world is just beginning to open.
Since the most difficult interpretation of the music is only the three people, Mozart, Bach, and Chopin, the Fu tune plays this piece with great ease.
He doesn't have to think too much, he just needs to fully interpret his thoughts on music.
That's all.
Klaus, who was on the side, couldn't help but nod his head as he looked at the sheet music in his hand.
Fu tune is worthy of being Fu tune.
This touch, this musicality, this feeling of expression is almost perfect for his recognition of other virtuoso diploma learners.
It's not a recognition line for the exam, it's a ......
At the end of the course, the next piece of recognition is carried out.
What is this concept?
That is to say, Fu will return to class when he is transferred to class, and he doesn't need to go to class at all, he only needs this kind of practice, and he can go back directly when he comes up and listens to him.
But......
Since Fu Diao's strength is so strong, the line in his heart can still be mentioned.
Klaus couldn't help but think of this as he listened to Fu's performance, and the corners of his mouth curled slightly.
And he asked Fu to come to class not to correct some mistakes in his music, but to help him broaden his musical line.
Help him find his own music, help him control everything he does with music.
So Klaus closed his eyes and began to listen and analyze everything in Fu's music with great seriousness.
The room was extremely quiet, except for the sound of Fu tune's music echoing in the room.
Until the end of the music.
Fu raised his hand and was about to move on to Brahms's second rhapsody when Klaus suddenly spoke.
"Dior, okay, let's play this one first today, and then play the next one later."
"Hmm."
Fu put his hands away and waited for Klaus to speak.
Klaus didn't immediately start explaining what Fu Tuo should do, but asked directly.
"Dior, can you do it all over again at the beginning?"
"The beginning?"
"Well, the beginning, the beginning all the way to the end of the first phrase."
"Okay."
Fu Tune nodded, replayed the opening and placed it in front of Klaus, then looked at him and blinked.
"Is that so?"
"Well, yes, why do you play like that?"
"Why do I play like this?"
Fu Tiao was stunned for a moment, couldn't help but raise his head and think about it, and explained: "I think this place should be like a rock breaker, the position of this note is relatively high, and it needs to show more tension...... Is that right? ”
"Well, there's nothing wrong with what you're playing, and there's nothing wrong with how you feel, but I don't think you understand why you're playing the way you do."
Klaus shook his head, also put his hand on the piano, and began to play casually.
"Listen, this is also a shock, this is also a shock, this is still a shock, and this, it is also a shock, and the tension of the music is almost not much different from yours, do you think you play well, or I play well?"
"Me."
Fu Tiao didn't hesitate and spoke directly, with a slight frown.
"Your first strength was not given, it should be F, I feel that you are a little less than F, it seems to be MF?"
"And what about the second one? The second one should be f, right? ”
"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? Dior, can you put it into words? Or to describe it on the piano. ”
"Hmmm......"
Fu Tiao frowned, he licked his slightly dry lips, and focused his attention entirely on the distinction between the music.
"Because...... Agitato at the beginning of the work? Fast and excited? It's as if the excitement in the music isn't there? ”
"And what about the third one? The third I have tension, excitement, and even a little bit of the earth-shattering feeling you said, who do you think has the better feeling between me and you? ”
"It's still me."
"Why?"
"Because ......"
Fu Tiao closed his eyes, and he did start to think.
Why is it that it seems that everything in music has been done, but it is really not as good as playing it yourself?
It's a strange feeling.
He turned to Klaus and said, "Can you play it again?" It's just the feeling of the third one. ”
"Well, of course, there are no problems."
Klaus played Fu Tune three times again, then stared into Fu Tune's eyes and asked him.
"Why do you think this is happening?"
"Because ......"
Fu Tiao still didn't grasp that feeling, thought about it, and said to Klaus.
"Because...... Brahms's feelings? I have Brahms feelings? ”
"Yes, it's not."
Klaus was almost amused by Fu Tuo, shook his head and said.
"Don't think that all works need to have a corresponding feeling just because you didn't have Chopin's feeling before, I listened to your previous Chopin qualifiers, in fact, it is not as bad as you imagined, don't be presumptuous."
"I didn't ......"
"I know you didn't, so I'll explain to you why you played better than I just felt the third time."
Klaus shook his head, picked up the sheet music in his hand, and handed it to Fu Tuodao.
"Because of the marks on the score, you look at the score again."
Score Marker ......
Fu took the score, looked at the contents, and looked at Klaus with a little incomprehension.
"Agitato at the beginning, I just said it, and this f, I also said it, is there any problem?"
"A little."
Klaus pointed to the connection above and explained to Fu Tuo.
"I didn't make the connection very obvious in my performance, so my third one obviously feels a little worse than yours, right? Even if you don't notice the connection, but you still make the connection, do you think the fourth tension or what you express, which is better? ”
"Or, me?" Fu Tiao was a little dizzy, and he was a little hesitant to speak.
"Well, why." Klaus looked at Fu and laughed: "You have to have a reason, otherwise what's the difference between playing hooligan?" ”
"I sound like I'm playing better, this ...... Is it a reason? ”
Fu Tiao looked at Klaus shaking his head slightly, and felt a little helpless for a while, so he could only sigh.
"Well, I really can't explain it, I can't hear the third one, and the fourth one is even more ......"
"Hahaha, to be exact, the fourth one is actually the one that most resembles the Brahms feeling you said."
Hearing that Fu Tiao was a little defeated, Klaus finally laughed out loud and asked Fu Tiao.
"Do you know what Brahms had to feel?"
"I don't know......," Fu shook his head.
"Brahms is not really a feeling, but one of his characteristics, that is, Brahms is particularly fond of using chords to express musical beauty, compared with Chopin's chords that are broken down into lines, his chords are more intuitive."
Klaus replayed the part he was playing again, and then explained to Fu Tune.
"Although I still noticed the connection part in the fourth performance, I deliberately pressed the chord of the left hand accompaniment into a single note on the line, and did not give this piece a sense of chord, and you played such a chord feeling when you were unconscious."
Klaus looked at Fu Tuo, looked at his gradually clear pupils, and couldn't help but smile.
"Now you know where you played, right?"
"I probably ...... Got it. ”
Fu Tiao nodded thoughtfully, took back his score from Klaus's hand, looked at the content on it, and walked through what Klaus had just said in his heart.
Connection, chord sense.
Neither of these things he played automatically without noticing at all.
If so, what happens?
Fu Tune thought for a moment, returned the score to Klaus, raised his head slightly, looked at a hanging painting on the wall in the distance, and slowly played the first note of Brahms's rhapsody.
F accent.
Adigato, fast and excited.
The large line above the phrase.
Accompaniment of minor lines of chords below.
Bite!!
The sound of the piano sounded, and it seemed to feel exactly the same as before, but it seemed to be completely different.
The spirituality that was originally full of music began to tremble slowly.
The spirituality of music is not confined to the music, but tries to break through the surface of the music and gush out.
Fu Tiao didn't feel anything yet, but Klaus's eyes on the side gradually lit up.
He sensed the spirituality in Fu's music.
No one paid any attention to me......
Whether it's in a group or in a book.
Alas, it's really cold and transparent
(End of chapter)