pianist from the sea

Chapter 170 The Three Schools of Music and Amsterdam

Fu Tiao did not continue to focus on what Professor Klaus just said. He still needs to go to Amsterdam for a concert, and then Brussels and Paris.

After all, it is a global tour now, and he has been in Berlin for more than a week, and there are only three or four days before his next performance, which is to go to Amsterdam.

However, apart from Berlin, there are only two performances with concertos arranged by Deutsche Grammophon for Fu Tiao in London and Vienna. The performances in other places are purely personal solo music without a band. meeting.

Therefore, Fu Tiao does not need to be particularly anxious, even if there is still a day or two to catch up, enter the concert hall to start the performance before the concert starts.

There is a train from Berlin to Amsterdam, which takes a full seven hours. As for the train from Amsterdam to Brussels, the time required is shorter, only two and a half hours.

Originally, for the train from Berlin to Amsterdam, Deutsche Grammophon said they would arrange an air ticket for Fu. The air ticket from Berlin to Amsterdam was not expensive, only one or two hundred euros. Those low-cost airlines can even be cheaper.

It's just that this proposal was rejected by Fu Tiao. Compared with flying around the world by plane, he prefers to take the train or take a cruise.

The driving speed is too fast, and the time left for the individual is too short, and the journey sometimes loses the meaning of the journey itself, leaving only the anxiety of rushing.

In addition, many trains and high-speed trains in Europe will basically choose a relatively beautiful route, so Fu Diao did not hesitate, and directly chose the IC 142 train from Berlin to Amsterdam.

He, Taylor and others returned to the newly built large railway station in Berlin full of modern feeling, and walked to the gate where the train departed. After waiting for a long time, a pure white high-speed train came from a distance. Come and stop in front of them all.

click...

The door slowly opened, and people with suitcases around quickly boarded the already gray high-speed train, rushing for those unreserved seats.

Fu Tiao raised his hand to glance at the time, and then smiled slightly at Taylor and the others.

"Then I'll go first, and when I decide where I'm going, I'll send you an email notification later."

"Okay, you don't need to send the email to me. You can send it directly to the secretariat of the Berlin University of the Arts. They should have registered your information." Taylor smiled at Fu Tiao, then waved his hand .

"However, as Professor Klaus said, you must think carefully before making a decision. Don't be too anxious. We all have time. After all, it doesn't matter whether it is for you, or for Professor Klaus, or even for you. The Berlin University of the Arts is a very important thing."

"Is it important..." Fu Tiao sighed slowly after taking a breath, looked at the glass dome above his head, and shook his head slightly: "Let me think about it again."

"Okay, think about it slowly, this trip to Amsterdam is quite comfortable, I remember they reserved a first-class seat for you, although this first-class seat is a few seats less than the second-class seat , but the overall space is much more spacious, not as crowded as second-class seats."

Taylor smiled cheerfully, and said casually: "Look more, listen more, and think more. Whether it's for you or for other pianists, these are actually quite good."

Fu Tiao nodded slightly when he heard it, looked around, and found that there were no remaining tourists around, and almost everyone had boarded the train, so he nodded and said: "Okay, let's do this first, the time is almost up, I got in the car first."

"Okay, noisy (ciao, ciao, Italian)"

"to die (tschüss, German)"

Fu Diao turned around and boarded the train to Amsterdam, waved to Taylor, and disappeared into the carriage.

Taylor stood outside the window and watched the train doors slowly close before leaving with a smile.

For him, his work to this place is over.

He is a professor at Berlin University of the Arts. He is also a member of the jury of the Chopin International Piano Competition. Although he is not the main judge, he is also a member of the jury.

He originally wanted to teach Fu Tiao a little bit, but during the communication with Fu Tiao, his idea was quickly dismissed.

Because what he is good at, Fu Tiao is also good at.

The best he plays is this Chopin. When he was teaching at the Berlin University of the Arts and the Cincinnati Conservatory of Music in the beautiful country, the things he mainly taught students to play were basically Chopin’s things. For other composers, Although he can also teach and let those students develop their repertoire library, the feeling of teaching is only average, and it has not reached a particularly perfect state.

There are also some other subtle reasons, all of which combined, he agreed to only serve as a guide of the Berlin University of the Arts to help establish a relationship between the Berlin University of the Arts and Fu Tiao, rather than wanting to be Fu Tiao's professor and continue to guide him in music on the content.

He stood outside the Berlin gate of Berlin Main Station, looking at the brand new huge building in front of him, shining in the sun, he couldn't help but smile slightly.

"With the entry of Fu Tiao, the structure of the three major schools of music may change, right?"

Attracted by money and honor, countless top pianists went to the beautiful country to perform, and jointly built a new beautiful Chinese music school with the three major schools as the core and the original humanistic education of the beautiful country as the main body. At the same time, it explores the performance instinct of the performer to the greatest extent, instead of grasping the basics like the traditional three major schools.

What this school of music aspires to is to enable everyone to learn music happily, even if they don't become talents, it doesn't really matter.

Under the representatives of the beautiful Chinese music school, I don't know whether it is because of the large population base or the success of this teaching method, but they have been able to successfully teach countless top pianists and artists, making them shine on the stage all over the world, even It has already affected the basics of the three major schools of music.

Of the three major schools of music, the oldest, the German-Austrian School known for its pure rationality, has been weakening day by day. With the feeling of extinction, their global influence has gradually become huddled in Germany and Austria, and it is difficult to leave.

At the same time, the French school is rejuvenated in its second spring. The French school, represented by the Paris Conservatory of Music, has shown extraordinary vitality. They pay attention to balance and harmony, and focus on the purity and transparency of music. The performance that is mainly based on strength rather than strength has attracted countless performers to join the French school.

In South Korea and Japan, both in East Asia, after comparing the French School and the German-Austrian School, many of them would choose to join the French School instead of the German-Austrian School.

Just like Zhao Chengzhen, who was in the same year as Fu Tiao, after he entered the French School of Music, he was favored by the current head of the French School of Music, and was even hailed as the representative of the next generation of the French School of Music. His aggressiveness cannot be stopped...

Except losing to Fu Tiao.

However, the influence of the Russian school of music on a global scale is difficult to evaluate.

The Russian folk music school pays the most attention to the basic skills of the performers themselves. What they pay attention to is the most extreme show-off skills, using technology to crush opponents. Although they care about music, they don't care much.

This kind of big, dark, and thick performance not only did not disappear under the joint strangulation of the German-Austrian school and the French school at that time, but gradually expanded, and even became the mainstream performance at that time. This is the case with Horowitz, the king of piano.

Horowitz can be regarded as the kind of existence that suppressed an entire era and made everyone in that era shroud in his shadow.

Even Rachmaninoff's latest work at that time may not have been so smooth for him to play, but when he handed this work over to Horowitz to perform, he could almost play it directly after watching it only once or twice.

Horowitz is the king of the piano, and the Russian school of music can be called the most technically top school of music.

This school of music is not only spreading around Russia, even the school of music that Huaguo tends to be almost all Russian schools of music.

After all, those who went to study abroad in Huaguo in the early years, and those who made great achievements later, were basically from the Russian school of music. They even stipulated the current syllabus for piano teaching in Huaguo.

Hanon, Beyer, and Czerny, which have no musicality, are the main ones, supplemented by works of certain national schools of music.

This also led to Huaguo also producing many technically almost invincible existences, such as Lang Liangyue and Wang Jia's brothers and sisters.

Therefore, it is difficult for you to say how influential the Russian school of music is in the world. After all, if you simply talk about the land where the music of the Russian school is played, this area is not small.

It's a pity that in the world, only the Russian school pays the most attention to basic skills. The German-Austrian school pays the most attention to musical logic, and the French school pays the most attention to the purity of music. It is not a serious problem for the Russian school. .

For them...

As long as your basic skills are good enough, no matter what kind of work you make, it's reckless!That's right!
Just go over there recklessly, go over hard, if you can't go over recklessly, if you can't go over there, you can't go over there, it means your basic skills are not in place, give me another hundred times to practice the basic skills!A thousand times!Ten thousand times!

Once your basic skills are invincible in the world, what else can be difficult for you?Just kidding!
Just like Fu Tiao, Fu Tiao's basic skills are almost invincible in the world. It seems that when he first came here, he needed to play Chopin's works, and he could play directly with just a glance or two, and then he went straight to it.

No one knows whether it can win the championship, but you just say, is this Chopin playing?
Of course, the Russian school of music is definitely not just so stupid, black and thick, they also have their own characteristics, but this characteristic of crushing everything with basic skills has penetrated into the minds of many people, and there is no way to erase it.

It's just... the glory of the three major schools of music has only existed in the past, and now is the new century, and the piano genre of this century has shifted from the three traditional schools of music to the emerging beautiful Chinese music school.

After gaining the strengths of many, the beautiful Chinese music school is becoming more and more influential in the world, and there is even a feeling of being single against the three major schools of music.

Among the three major schools of music, the French school of music is able to fight against the outside world, the Russian school of music is clinging to the basics and no one can move, while the German school of music is shrinking more and more.

"I hope that Fu Tiao can break the dilemma of the German-Austrian School of Music. After all, I feel that Fu Diao actually needs the guidance of the German-Austrian School of Music. The German-Austrian School of Music also needs a new top pianist. To break their current predicament, I hope to go to both ends..."

Taylor looked at the blue sky above his head, felt the warm weather around him, couldn't help but chuckled, threw away the depression in his heart, swayed to the distant grass, lay down with a slap, and was in harmony with the many lights around him. Together with naked men and women with their bodies crossed, they comfortably enjoy the sun above their heads.

This is the case here in Germany, no matter men or women, once the sun comes out, the key point is that it must be warm enough, they will directly take off their clothes and bask in the sun, without paying any attention to the eyes of other people around them.

Recently, I heard that Germany has recently started to engage in women's liberalization work?Propaganda that women can swim topless like men?

Well……

Although Taylor doesn't particularly like those feminists, Taylor still likes supporting women's freedom to dress.

"The city of Berlin...is really good~"

Taylor smiled and lay on the grass basking in the sun, extremely peaceful.

……

Compared with Professor Taylor who has achieved great success and can find a place to lie down and bask in the sun to sleep, Fu Tiao doesn't have so much time to sleep.

He was sitting in the train, looking at the scenery passing by with a calm expression.

The scenery outside the window can't be said to be very beautiful, but it can definitely be regarded as fresh, especially for Fu Tiao.

Cut into slices of fields, each with a different color, like a canvas.

And the huge wind turbine slowly turning in the distance, with loneliness and indifference independent of the world.

Around the railway, there are almost no people, and you can't even see farmers working.

Sure enough, compared with the train from Suez through the Alps, facing the uncanny scenery of mountains and rivers, this kind of train running on flat ground seems much more monotonous.

Fu Tiao could only look away from the car window, turned his head to look at the music score in front of him, and fell into deep thought, thinking about what Professor Claus said before.

What is the system and logic in music, and how should it be understood.

Also, when you play by yourself, besides the picture you want to play, what else should you have in your head?
The sound of running vehicles brought endless peace, Fu Tiao even felt more and more complicated looking at the score in front of him, and even felt a little tired and wanted to sleep.

And just at this time, the warm sunlight in the distance flowed out from the clouds like white gauze, and fell on Fu Tiao's body, making Fu Tiao even more tired, yawning involuntarily, leaning his head on the car window on, fell into sleep.

All the way was calm, until it was about to enter the territory of Amsterdam.

The sky finally gradually darkened, and the gloom and darkness of Northern Europe finally revealed to Fu Tiao.

It was only after five o'clock, and the sky was already completely dark. The sun had disappeared completely in the sky without knowing when, leaving only a trace of blue to prove that he had been here.

And when Fu Tiao stood at the entrance of the central railway station in Amsterdam, it was almost completely dark, the lights on the side of the road had been fully turned on, and the warm yellow lights brought a last bit of warmth to everyone. Walking down, just like the world described in a fairy tale book.

In Amsterdam, the flow of people here is much more crowded than in Berlin, perhaps because the houses here are relatively small and the roads are slightly congested. Obviously, there are far less people than Berlin, but it is much more crowded than Berlin.

Fu Tiao got off the bus unsteadily, followed his own navigation, and walked towards the concert hall.

The Royal Concertgebouw in Amsterdam is home to the top three orchestras in the world, the Royal Orchestra of Amsterdam.

Of course, due to scheduling conflicts, Fu Diao did not cooperate with this orchestra to play Chopin's Concerto.

He came to the concert hall, and after notifying the staff at the door, the staff took him to the small chamber music performance hall in the concert hall.

Still due to scheduling conflicts, the Grand Concert Hall needs to be used by the Royal Amsterdam Orchestra that day. It is said that they are going to play Mahler, which is the one that Fu Tiao heard at the Berlin Philharmonic.

"Sorry, although Deutsche Grammophon communicated with us a long time ago, our Mahler performance this year was actually finalized in January last year and announced very early. I am really sorry." The staff apologized to Fu Tiao: "But if you have any questions, please feel free to consult me, I'm at the information desk at the door.

Also... due to lack of manpower, we have already placed the three pianos on the stage for you. If you decide, you can lift the piano you selected, and we will help you handle it on the day of the performance Finish your piano. "

After finishing speaking, he bowed slightly to Fu Tiao, turned and left, leaving only Fu Tiao standing in this concert hall with 600 people.

Looking at this small concert hall, Fu Tiao's expression didn't change much. To him, there is no difference whether it is a small concert hall or a large concert hall.

Because no matter which one, he needs to take it seriously.

"Then...let's start." Fu Tiao sat in front of the piano and gently pressed the first key.

　Remarks: This novel is purely fictitious, please do not completely compare it with the real world

　　
　
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