April 25, Berlin, sunny

Instead of staying in Essen to listen to other people's concerts, Fu chose to take the nearest ICE train and go straight to Berlin.

He threw his clothes at his house on Xuandihou Road, changed into a set of cleaner clothes, and took the S-Bahn near his home directly to the vicinity of the school.

Maybe it's because of the sunny day, there aren't many people in the school, and there aren't even a lot of people in the piano room.

In the face of such sunny weather, people in Europe, especially in Germany and even in the Netherlands, will prefer to soak in the sun and enjoy the sun, rather than stay in a lifeless room and do those cookie-cutter exercises.

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

Those who are a little ashamed will wear shorts, while those elderly aunts don't even wear shorts, just lie in the forest and enjoy the sun.

After Fu Tiao came out of the train station on the edge of Tiergarten, he bypassed the countless white flowers enjoying the sunshine, and walked through the forest under the shattered sunlight to the vicinity of 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 entrance of the school, nodded with a smile, she did not enter the piano room of the school directly, but changed the hand holding the sheet music in her hand to the side, looked at the time above and asked Ms. Kate.

"Ms. Kate, can you help me see how my teacher Klaus is doing? Is he in class now, or, is he teaching? ”

The first class that Fu Tiao said refers to a small class for one person, the kind of one-on-one class.

The rest of the teaching is to ask Professor Krauss if he has any major classes in the last school year.

The German language is not the same, and the English language is not the same.

"Oh, you're looking for Professor Klaus, aren't you? Let me take a look at ......"

Ms. Kate, who was sitting at the counter, instantly understood what Fu Tune meant, raised her hand and flipped through the house usage sheet placed beside her, checked Professor Klaus's situation, and asked as she flipped through it.

"Dio, didn't you make an appointment with Professor Klaus? You should be able to use Whatsapp to ask Klaus, or the phone, Professor Klaus is not a very stubborn person, he has a good grasp of new things, and does not necessarily need to use email contact. ”

"I'm sorry, I just got back from Essen."

"Essen? Oh yes, it's April, and the Ruhr Festival is going on in Essen, and it's a very nice festival, and it's a very interesting festival where professors and teachers are often invited to play and give lectures. ”

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

"Well, I've found information about Professor Krauss, and in about twenty minutes, he'll have a two-and-a-half-hour break in Professor Krauss's piano room, and you can find him in the meantime, but I suggest you don't wait too long, Mr. Krauss isn't a professor who likes to stay in the room, so ...... For two and a half hours, there is a good chance that he will be out of the house and not at school. ”

"Okay, I see, thank you."

"You're welcome, I wish you a nice day."

Ms. Kate pushed the form in her hand towards Fu Tuo, straightened up, smiled and waved her hand.

Fu Tiao's eyes met with a smile on his face, nodded slightly, took the form on the table, and walked out, walking in the direction of Professor Klaus's piano room.

The University of the Arts Berlin is a very old university, and every staircase seems to have a history of almost bombing, and it seems that through the gaps between the wooden planks, you can see the tracer bullets that flickered in the sky from decades ago, enough to light up the fireworks of the whole of Berlin.

Broken, divided, fused, united.

The myriad of different elements are so vividly displayed in Berlin's architecture that it is enough to confuse people as to which country this style should belong.

Fu Tiao stepped on the steps, listening to the squeaking sound of the steps, and even made Fu Tiao have a little doubt that it was caused by eating too much recently.

From time to time, there are students from the school walking by, some people recognize Fu Diao, and excitedly say hello to Fu Diao, there are also a group of people who are not piano majors, and they are not familiar with the piano, and they have a trace of strangeness to Fu Diao, just passing by.

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

With that, he finally stood in front of Professor Klaus's door and waited quietly.

There was a piano sound in the room, two to be exact.

It is clear that two completely different pianos play the same piece, the slightly left source is slightly weak in timbre processing and control, while the right one is completely enveloped in the left piano, carrying it hand in hand.

This is Professor Claus's teaching method, an effective teaching method that works for some people.

For those who have strong ears, you can feel the gap between yourself and Klaus very clearly, and then try to improve it as much as possible.

Those with more average ears will not advise what to do, but will make him feel that Klaus is playing no different from himself, and will have some misjudgments about his own strength, thus making the lesson plan fail.

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

As for why girls......

The most important thing is the habit and way of listening to the person in it.

The man's playing power is weaker, and his body is not tall, about 1.6 meters, and he can't exert his strength well with the piano.

At the same time, the man's hands should not be large, probably a small-handed user, who would prefer the running type of work to the chord-smashing work of Brahms.

Fu Tune just listened to it casually, and roughly wrote out from the side of his mind what kind of image the person who was playing should be.

And as the last chord of the music ends, Professor Klaus's voice is heard in the room.

"Yes, it's an improvement from the last time, and then there are some details that you need to pay attention to, for example, the staccato we walked before, which is from measure 78 to measure 95, you always unconsciously turn it into a legato, and that feels completely different, you know?"

"Well, okay, I see!"

What came out of the room was German, and although Fu Tiao didn't understand it, he could probably distinguish most of the contents.

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

And the person who answered was indeed a girl.

After getting up and a series of daily chat conversations that Fu Tiao didn't understand, the door of the house was opened, Fu Tiao turned sideways to get out of the way, and a slightly familiar girl appeared in front of Fu Tiao.

Chu Yao, Choyo, the Korean from before, may have another surname, but Fu Diao doesn't know.

Could it be Park?

After Chu Yao bowed slightly to the professor in the room, and was just about to leave, she found Fu Diao standing beside her, her eyes couldn't help but light up, and she bowed to Fu Diao again, and said in German with great excitement.

"Dior! Why are you here today? ”

After that, she was stunned for a moment, and just when she was about to change to English and talk to Fu Tiao, Fu Tiao smiled and waved his hand, and said in half-baked German.

"I'm here for class, I wish you a nice day, goodbye, bye (schoen tag, aufwiedersehen tschuess)"

The German Goodbye Trifecta of the Canon.

Before Chu Yao could react, Fu Diao hit her brain in a daze with a series of consecutive moves, she just nodded blankly, and after saying "goodbye", the door of the house was closed.

“？”

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

Wait, what just happened? If you didn't say this sentence, why did you directly say goodbye to Germany three times?

How can anyone meet and make a big move?

It's also too ...... It's outrageous, at least say a few words and say goodbye, right?

Fu Diao didn't know that Chu Yao was looking dazed outside the house, he just carefully closed the door and turned his head to look inside.

Professor Klaus seemed to have expected Fu to come, and he stood on the edge of the piano, looking at Fu Tuan who was walking towards him, holding the edge of the piano with his left hand, and smiling and nodding.

"Dior, how's that? Just got back from Essen? ”

"Well, yes, they were fooled by Lang Liangyue and went to listen to Lang Liangyue, Kissin, and Arkady's performances."

Fu Tiao smiled, stretched out his hand to pull away the chair that was placed on the side, and was just about to sit down, only to find that Professor Klaus shook his head and stepped forward to stop him.

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

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

Chu Yao was still in the distance and didn't leave, but he didn't know what to think.

Klaus removed a top hat from the hook next to the door and nodded to Fu Tiao.

"Let's go, let's go out and talk."

"yes, okay."

Fu Diao followed Klaus past Chu Yao, nodded to Chu Yao in a friendly manner, and continued to walk downstairs.

With the crunch of the stairs, Klaus asked Fu Tuo.

"You just told me...... You went to Essen's show, listening to Arcade, Kissin, and Lang Liangyue, how did you feel? ”

"Arcades is amazing, very powerful."

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

"Arcade's performance this year should be a god-level scene, whether it is the control of space, or the performance of music, expression, and aesthetic interpretation, Arcade has done what I think, the strongest strength, far beyond Kissin and Lang Liangyue."

"Arcade, oh yes, I remember, his strength is really good, he should have participated in the Ruhr Piano Festival for a long time, I also have a collection of his records, his god specialty, won the album of the Echo Award that year, that set of albums is quite good!" Klaus nodded in agreement.

It's clear that he also knows Arcades and knows what kind of character Arcades is.

"What about the others? Kissin? He's been in the limelight lately, how do you feel? ”

"A very powerful person, his Brahms is stronger than me, strong in the control of the concert hall, as for other places, I actually don't have much feeling, but the level of strength is not bad, and Lang Liangyue ...... I'm not very good at it. ”

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

The two walked downstairs, and Klaus smiled and nodded at Ms. Kate, who was packing up her papers in the distance, waved hello, pushed open the door of the concert hall, and walked out into the sun.

Professor Klaus walked to the back of the school with Fu Tune, and after a few detours, he came to a river.

This is the river that runs through Berlin, and the Spree River is the origin of Berlin in the same way that the Rhine is to Frankfurt.

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

The grass is not prickly, it is comfortable and gentle to sit on.

Although there is some sunshine, the time is just at noon, and the sun has not completely turned overhead, so on such a grassy slope, the two can still enjoy this extremely comfortable sunshine.

After struggling to hold the ground with his hands, Klaus sat down slowly, lying on his back on the lawn, enjoying the sun with his eyes closed.

Fu Tiao, on the other hand, sat on the side, looking at the endless roads around him and the Spree River that drove by sightseeing cruise ships from time to time, and couldn't help but be in a daze.

"Dior." Klaus closed his eyes gently, but suddenly spoke: "Why do you say that you don't have a good evaluation of Lang Liangyue?" Is it because he is Chinese like you? ”

"Not ......"

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

"Because I don't know why he chose to play a piece that he wasn't good at, Chopin's scherzo."

"Chopin's scherzo? Was his first half work Tchaikovsky's Four Seasons? ”

"Well, yes."

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

Klaus opened his eyes, looked at Fu Tuo, who was sitting on the side, and smiled.

"Because he's selling his own records, his latest record, Lang Liangyue is in Paris, I listened to his record, although his Chopin is not as good as you, but it's okay, it's definitely not bad, I can only say that there is no way to match his identity."

"Well, that's true, but shouldn't he, as a pianist, always show his best side to everyone? Why did you choose to play some pieces that you are not good at? ”

"Because he also wants to challenge, and he also wants to get rid of the shackles of not being good at playing Chopin, it's that simple, there are not so many ideas."

Klaus closed his eyes again and said slowly.

"When you play more later, you will be clear, you will know that it is impossible for people to play all the composers, everyone has their own good works, there are also works that they are not good at, everyone is the same, even if you keep practicing, you will encounter such difficulties, this difficulty does not mean that you can get rid of it if you keep practicing hard."

"Is that so......"

Fu Tune took a deep breath and slowly exhaled it.

If it were winter, his breath would have formed a long cloud, but now it was summer, and he just sighed, but he didn't show anything.

"Dior, you haven't told me what exactly your Ruhr Festival piece is intended to play? Although I'm just your teacher, not your manager, I can't decide what you play and what you don't play, but can you at least tell me? What do you think? ”

"It's the same two pieces at the beginning, two variations by Brahms as the beginning, and then I'm going to try one of Beethoven's sonatas, so I'll choose enthusiasm, and finally the second half...... I'm going to choose Chopin's ballade. ”

"Huh? Beethoven passion sonatas? Chopin's Ballade? ”

Klaus, who was still lying there basking in the sun, was stunned, got up from the ground with a shocked face, looked at Fu Diao beside him, and wondered.

"Why did you choose this set? I remember when you weren't going to play Brahms, but also Mozart? Why did it 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 steamer, and said casually.

"Although no one will think that I can be compared with Lang Liangyue, but I actually want to play a god-level live, Lang Liangyue played Chopin, which he is not good at, so I will tell him how Chopin should play, and correspondingly, he plays Tchaikovsky, which he is good at, then I will use Beethoven, which he is best at, to deal with it, it's as simple as that."

Fu Diao's gaze was extremely hot.

"Professor Klaus, while it may seem like I'm being a little reckless to say that, but...... I want to play a god-level live! I really want to play on the spot! I also want to be one of the top pianists, and at the same time, I also want to tell Lang Liangyue a little ......"

Fu Tiao looked at Klaus beside him and grinned: "No matter what kind of scene, you have to come up with your best work, instead of taking out a perfunctory work at random, if you don't play well, the play is more average, and it doesn't meet your identity, then ...... Don't take it out and be embarrassed. ”

"Professor Klaus, you should be able to help me with my idea, right?"

Klaus looked at Fu Xuan's hot gaze and 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?"

"At the end of June, the beginning of July, between the 20th of June and the 1st of July, I forgot the specifics......"

"So it seems...... You've got a month and a half to take control of the work. ”

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

"Although the time is a bit rushed, but I think you should be able to, I have already pushed off all the following courses, and I will give you a special lesson today, just ...... Beethoven's passionate sonata begins, Lang Liangyue's masterpiece! There's still some time, so let's go back to school and start right away! ”

(End of chapter)