musicians of old

Chapter 215 Master's Handwriting (6K [-] in [-])

Alumnus Master Nieman is about to give a demonstration in person, and Fan Ning couldn't help but be fascinated.

But when he thought back to Bishop Mill's last sentence, he seemed to remember something.

Lee Viadlin...Lee Viadlin...Is that the president's full name?

"Maybe I need to say something, I just saw the theme." Sir Viadrin, who was a member of the inspection team, got up and made a joke with a light smile.

A few beams of light and friendly laughter wafted from the audience, including the family members of Bassani in the front row.The emergence of such an atmosphere may be difficult to understand at ordinary people's funerals, but this great poet is by no means ordinary.

"You are only increasing their psychological pressure." Bishop Mill, who retreated to the corner of the sacristy, said with a smile, "Today is another historic moment, our great pianist 'Li' returned to the stage .”

"Lee Viadlin of Guidance School, is that former pianist 'Li'?" The audience was still silent, but many people had begun to approach each other and communicate in soft words.

Hearing Bishop Mill's words, Fan Ning's childhood scenes in this world are still fresh in his memory, and finally he is connected with the tall and burly figure on the stage at this moment.

New calendar 900 At the turn of the century, Vincent took his 10-year-old self to listen to a shocking solo concert, and the protagonist was a pianist named "Li".

He has nearly [-] years of concert experience. Although he was middle-aged at that time, he still has a tall and handsome appearance and a romantic and melancholy stage temperament. In terms of playing style, he pursues an exciting Vertigo and suffocating dazzling effects: extremely fast speed, brilliant sound, complex and difficult layers, stormy octaves, explosive contrast between strength and weakness... His tours are full, and audiences from all over the world are fascinated.

Especially ladies and ladies from famous families.

Those fanatical female admirers would scream wildly or cry during the applause between his music performances. Some people frequently fainted due to lack of oxygen at the scene, and some even put their personal gold and silver ornaments Throw it on the stage.

At the end of the last century, a conservative music critic in the "Tioline Cultural Weekly" pointed out critically that "ladies, or ladies, gathered around him like ants swarming around desserts... Arguing about his fallen hair, kissing his cigarette butt, and even some ladies drank the hot water left in the bathtub of the hotel where he stayed..."

Now judging from the mutual confirmation of the memories of the two lives, this pianist is simply a copy of Liszt on Blue Star.

"The me in this world seems to have clamored to formally learn the piano after that concert... Well, it's not that kind of reason, it's because I was shocked by the music." Fan Ning secretly recalled.

But at that concert, "Li" announced his decision to withdraw from the stage without any warning, and directly canceled the schedule for the next year. The only time Fan Ning listened to it became the witness of the explosive news. .

The legendary pianist has since disappeared from public view.

Fanning recalled the romantic affairs of the pianist "Lee" who are still circulating today, and also thought of Viadrin's complicated look when he saw the Marchioness of McAdam just now.

The former soprano singer has never had any scandals. Fan Ning tends to think that although Viadlin is surrounded by famous ladies and daughters, she may have been in a kind of love for her senior sister or senior sister. status.

On the side of the flowers on the altar, there is a black "Boethius" nine-foot piano. Viadrin has already sat down on the piano stool. He raised his head, looked through the piano stand, and stared at the eight notes. A mural painted high above.

I don't know what kind of changes have taken place in the president's skills and style?Fanning waited with bated breath along with the rest of the audience.

In fact, such a momentary comparison can vaguely reveal the characteristics of the year from his facial features.But 13 years later, from middle age to old age in the sense of ordinary people, the president ran to the office to open a restaurant, and was promoted to a master, the temperament changed too much, and more importantly, the president is still bald...

Vyadrin finished staring at the mural in contemplation, turned his gaze to look straight ahead, and at the same time raised his left hand to the piano keyboard.

The light and fast G major sound flow flows out densely from the middle range.

Their local constituent elements are cheerful roundabout patterns, but the long breathing lines of each phrase run through the three-octave range, rushing to the top first, and then falling down, so the trend is reciprocating.

Viadrin didn't step on the pedal, which made every detail of the sound stream clear and grainy, but the volume was still very weak, which sounded like a clear stream that was rushing and winding.

"It's not difficult to play fast and loud, but it is very difficult to play extremely fast and weak... But in this long sentence that is weak overall, the president also made a relative crescendo and decrescendo effect. What's more, he He didn't even step on the pedal. Although this way of showing off his skills is not aggressive at all, it is easy for people to doubt his playing level." Fan Ning thought to himself.

Just from the sound of the two prologue bars played with one hand, he could feel the huge gap between his finger function and Viadrin's.

The fast-running background sound flow followed the eight-note bass to switch the harmony. At the same time, Viadrin joined in with his right hand and played a crisp double-tone with dotted rhythm in the high register, just like a stream crashing into the Splashes of water on rocks.

"It should be the creation of a piece of title music. Although it is contrary to my ideas, I have experienced a strong sense of imagery." Master Schillings, who is extremely insightful, pondered secretly, "...Well, no, this double-tone It’s still not the melody, but the shape and color of the water splashed by the stream. In addition to maintaining the high-speed running of the left hand and the crisp double-tones of the right hand, he chooses to present the melody in the middle layer of the texture, which is played separately by the thumb of the right hand. With a hint of ignorance and simplicity, it seems to be a creature like a fish in the water?"

"His finger's ability to control the sound level is simply terrifying!" All the people present were able to see the way.

A picture of a rushing brook, water splashing against rocks, and fish swimming slowly spread out from Vyadrin's hands. After the theme of the presentation part ended, the music came to the sub-part theme similar to the style of chant.

The chant style on the piano mainly adopts rhythmic patterns with roughly neat melody and harmony to imitate the sound effects of the solemn chant version in the Middle Ages, and Viadrin is no exception here.

However, it is extremely rare for him to form a chord with a range spanning more than half of the keyboard and more than ten overlapping notes. Naturally, he cannot press it with both hands at the same time. He chose to use the left and right hands alternately four times to play each group of chords into Boeing.

So the audience saw such a stunned scene: before a melody sounded, Viadrin's hands would alternately "swipe" on the keyboard, and then under the afterimage, there were more than ten keys accurately " sank," before finally reaching the highest melodic notes.

However, his strength is still maintained at a comfortable and moderate level, and the secondary chant theme composed of melody sounds is also very singing, resulting in a combination of dynamic and static effects that are obviously fast but soft and elegant. .

This sub-theme... the audience recognizes it immediately after listening to it for a few bars.

It does come from a variation of the melody of a medieval chant called: St. Janin of Puntua Preaching to the Fishes.It depicts a religious story of St. Janingo, the first archbishop of the Church of the Holy Sun: Puntua is a place name. The archbishop stood by the stream here for a long time and patiently preached to the fish, persuading them to change their greedy and gluttonous nature. The chant is the content of the sermon, and the fish happily listened to the sermon, and then continued to chase things to feed their hunger after listening.

The audience suddenly realized that it was no wonder that Sir Viadrin stared at the height of the church for a long time before the performance. What he looked at was a mural based on "Saint Janin of Puntua Preaching to the Fish" as the material!
The expansion part starts with the left-hand sound stream of the minor version, which is shorter in duration, but includes a four-layer structure of contrast between speed and tonality. Here, Viadrin allows the audience to feel the charm of the legendary pianist back then .

Sometimes his state seems to be melancholy, but once excited, the brilliant major chords like a volcanic eruption, the tremolo like a thundercloud, and the cadenza poured out, and the whole church fell into a buzzing tremor. Sometimes it makes a strong sound that seems to make the strings scrap, and in an instant, a blurred and gentle melody floats, which makes people indulge in it and become intoxicated.

A perfect sonata-style creation ends with a brief and concise recapitulation summary.

First, it depicts the picture of the stream and fish on the mural, and initially shows today's sound sequence, and then perfectly combines the chant melody of "Preaching to the Fish" with the harmony of the sound sequence material, and then explodes in the most dramatic development part of the music Fiery passion with a strong personal style, Viadrin's various ingenuity and brilliant skills perfectly realize the resonance of music, art, religion, and literature, which is undoubtedly a model of the spirit of romanticism.

And as the first person to show up, Viadrin had the least amount of time to conceive.

Everyone not only rediscovered the shadow of the legendary pianist back then, but also experienced the endless philosophical thinking brought about by the accumulation of the artist's life while being shocked by the dazzling skills.

After the warm but not exaggerated and procrastinated applause ended, master Nieman stood up from the front row of the ceremony.

Unexpectedly, he did not walk towards the piano on the altar, but in the eyes of everyone, he walked around to the stairwell of the side corridor and slowly stepped up the steps leading to the second floor and higher places. Two cleric assistants followed closely behind.

"Upstairs? He wants to play the organ?"

"The master Nieman chose to use the organ to display his creation?" Everyone looked at each other in surprise.

Seeing Niemann sitting on the organ platform surrounded by wood carvings, Fan Ning's eyes lit up. As a lover of Bach music, the organ was something he yearned for but had no conditions to touch in his previous life.

The pedal stepped on a brilliant pillar chord background, and a sequence group with a gorgeous chromatic style was played alternately from Niemann's hands.

"The free rhythm seems to be careless, but it implies a certain emotional law. He should refer to the toccata style. Of course, his vocabulary is romantic." Fan Ning began to try to figure out the creative ideas of master Nieman .

In the previous life, "Toccata" comes from Italian, and the root here is also Hoffmann's word for "touch". Alternate as the opening.

"It's in G major, but what does this prelude have to do with the development of the eight notes? There seems to be no trace of deformation."

"Is it a variation? The melodic variation is definitely not, but the harmonic variation is not like it either?"

"What is the intention of Master Nieman?" Although the sound is beautiful and moving, and it is the master's handwriting at first sight, some viewers are also a little puzzled by the opening layout of Master Nieman.

Even the four masters in the front row of the ceremony were somewhat puzzled, and only the two masters, Swellink and Schillings, looked thoughtful.

"No, no...it doesn't sound like a solo." Fanning gradually discovered some clues, "It's not a solo, there must be something soon after."

Sure enough, when the music reached the eighth bar, the gorgeous and complicated sound patterns gradually dissipated, leaving only the background of the rhythm pattern surging like an undercurrent.

An extremely elegant and clear baritone melody, as bright and clean as jade, slowly sang from the mouth of Master Nieman:
"If I had embroidered satins of light,

That is woven with golden and silver rays;
night, day, dawn and evening,

The splendor of blue, gray, and black;
I will spread them under your feet,
But I am so poor that I can only dream.

I have spread them under your feet,
Take it easy because you're stepping on my dreams. "

Master Nieman sang pure ancient Hoffmann, and what surprised everyone was not only that he adapted Bassani's mystical poems into art songs, but also that his voice was extremely penetrating.

Under the premise of proper coordination, the volume of the bel canto solo can compete with the symphony orchestra, but standing in the church, facing the torrent of the "king of musical instruments" organ may be a bit difficult, and only the choir can cooperate with it.

But Master Nieman played and sang directly with the organ. Not only was his voice not covered, but he also improvised a four-line staff in his mind at the same time (organ hands + pedals + vocals).

"A large number of unexpected modulations, chromatic lines, delayed resolution, and a large number of dissonant intervals hanging... This harmony can be said to be very bold, and it is very consistent with the mystical temperament of poetry." Fan Ning stared at the master without blinking From the back at a high place, "Huh!? What? What kind of strange tonal layout is this?"

The unexpected but reasonable two-bar interlude shifted the tonality down by a semitone, from the original G major with only one sharp to a full six sharps. F major.

"Oh, inspiration comes by day and by night,

The seeking heart knows where it goes;

Someone once saw in the red of wine,
The incorruptible rose. "

Another poem by Bassani, Nieman’s chanting has a bit of wandering and ambiguous emotion, and the tonality continues to move down a full tone, to the parallel E minor of G major, accompanied by the counterpoint line of the low voice , and the major second interval played alternately by both hands on the upper and lower keyboards, the color changes more vividly.

"It flung itself lazily upon him,
The faded petals and the sweetness of desire;
When time and the world are fading away,
In the twilight of dew and fire. "

At this time, including Fan Ning, some people gradually understood Nieman's creative thinking: tonality!
The master wanted to adapt some of Bassani's mystical poems into art songs on the spot with the tonic layout of eight notes, so as to obtain a piece of organ vocal music with the nature of a suite in each part and the integrity of a single movement work.

Sure enough, next, Master Nieman continued to transfer the key, from e minor to d minor, then from b minor to c major, he used a total of three poems, and finally came to the prepared D major.

This is not something pure performance skills can do. His melody is by no means a simple "according to the lyrics". Every delicate emotional change in the poem, the fluctuation of emotion and light and shadow in the original text, are all in the ups and downs of the melody Subtly manifested.

In such a short period of time, finding suitable poems for lyrics, composing the melody, placing them in a unified musical logic, and reflecting the inner connection of harmony, rhythm, texture and mysticism is only a requirement for literary literacy , which made the waiting famous artists fearful.

In the last Bassani’s poem, the tonality reaches the tonic of the eighth note, returning to the original G major key of the music, but the colors and emotions conveyed by the music are sublimated.

"In the shade of old wind-shattered trees,

While sitting quietly on the ancient bluestone,
With a quick beat of the pulse,
I realize that the radiance is a living being,

Human beings are lifeless phantoms. "

At the end, the sound effect returned to silence, the deep G sound repeated, and the beams of light projected from the church vault that became dim at some point seemed to open their eyes, powerfully penetrating through the depressed atmosphere of each object. The haze enveloped the listeners generously and enthusiastically.

"I realize that the radiance is a living being,
Human beings are lifeless phantoms. "

When the last active melody of Nieman's right hand stopped at the B note, Fan Ning felt that the heat in his whole body surged up at that moment and was about to be ignited. The beauty created by music and poetry, combined with a lot of mystical revelation, brought He was extremely happy and shocked.

Many details that were difficult to figure out when studying the secret knowledge, now have the appearance of enlightenment, and some ethereal smells, colors and emotions in the dream have also changed from unspeakable to obvious.

For a while, I couldn't tell whether this strange feeling came from Master Nieman or from the remains of the poet Bassani among the flowers.

The church was silent, only the sound of Master Nieman stepping down the steps echoed.

"Mr. Poglerich's words are quite correct. No matter what historical era the 'Crescent Moon' is, it is an extremely important existence. A temporary song can cause such a strong inspiration shock. The same people, with different The level of 'ge' has a very different meaning to us." He Meng, who was in front of him, let out a long breath.

Fanning's limbs were hot, his thoughts were flooding, and his heart beat slowly and vigorously.

After listening to Viadrin and Master Nieman, he finally understood the horror of these "great musicians" and "great masters of music". Musicians" compete one or two.

Is there any show off?Although there are many difficult passages in the accompaniment, Fan Ning feels that Nieman never shows off his skills for the sake of showing off his skills. The notes he presents are all superfluous, and he will never thicken octaves, overlap double notes, To add brilliance, the direction of each voice has been carefully designed-maybe this is just his unintentional style.

Even if you are full of inspiration, even if you have the blessing of countless classical music memories from your previous life, you will still lack confidence in front of these true masters. This is the same as putting your current self in your previous life to face Beethoven, Mozart, and Schubert.

No one, including Bishop Mill and other members of the delegation, commented on or commented on Viadrin and Nieman's music because it was unnecessary.

The demonstrations of these two people were simply shocking and awe-inspiring. Under their influence, the artists on the sacristy platform next, who have rich stage experience on weekdays, are inevitably restrained to varying degrees at this moment.

The first one to take the stage was Ditoit, who was about to collaborate with the National Academy of Music in Tiolein on the Piano Concerto. His state was obviously affected the most, and he left the stage in a hurry after playing a Romantic-style impromptu.

"As expected of a famous pianist, this impromptu work, if the details are carefully polished in its heyday, it stands to reason that it should be at the level of four or five points of Chopin's "Fantasia Impromptu"...It's a pity, this order, this state..."

Fan Ning even wondered whether such an arrangement was made by the inspection team to test the stress resistance of these artists.

……

The fourth is Adonis, chief conductor of the Royal Academy of Music.

"It's the fourth number, and his condition should have recovered a lot. This variation can be regarded as ingenious, and it can even be called 'logical'. The master demonstrates first, without discussing the relevance of sister art or mysticism, it is still less interesting after all.”

If there is no comparison, there will be no gap. Fan Ning feels that in the impromptu test at the University of St. Lania last year, the level shown by everyone was a hundred Adonis behind the level performed by Master Nieman today.

Especially since my finger functions are mediocre, fortunately the plan I am waiting for is not romantic.

Everyone's performances are generally long, and several people created multi-movement works, which lasted for [-] to [-] minutes. As the status gradually improved, the delegation also frequently showed satisfaction.

After all, the talents of these artists who have achieved the current achievements are absolutely extraordinary. Under the premise of not comparing them with Master Nieman, they are all amazing works.

According to the given themes, the music they composed improvisedly is something that other composing professionals can't write by searching their brains for months.

The presentation by the ten people took about two and a half hours. When the last person stepped down from the altar, Marquis McAdam, who had been silently watching the whole process, finally spoke loudly.

"Your Excellency, Bishop Mill, and everyone in the inspection team, I have a proposal here."

(End of this chapter)