Please, come home and practice the piano

Chapter 167 164. Master Class in the Studio [Part [-]]

The list in Otto's hands was different from the ones in the audience, and the content was the same, but what he saw was edited in German.

Include student name.

Ao Tuo seldom pays attention to the last names of the students in the master class.

At this moment, however, it was difficult for him to ignore the players behind the last farewell sonata.

'LN'

He is very familiar.

Almost every piece of sheet music written by Lin Youyou will have such two letters connected together in the upper right corner.

Like a name and like some kind of code name.

His eyes paused for a moment, and Ao Tuo recalled the person Lin Youyou had praised him on the plane.

After a while backstage, he looked up and returned to the auditorium below the stage.

Speak again.

As a musician from Austria, Otto will inevitably spend some time before Beethoven begins.

On the side, Lin Youyou sometimes frowned, and sometimes showed a questioning look, trying to convey what Ao Tuo wanted to express to everyone present as clearly as possible.

"Beethoven was an artist who defended art."

"Mozart wandered around the periphery of the aristocratic world, knocking on the door uneasily, but was never really accepted."

"As for Beethoven, who was five years younger than Mozart, he kicked open the door and stormed into the aristocratic circle aggressively, then sat inside with peace of mind."

"Like his work, decisive and revolutionary."

"When we study Beethoven's piano works, we must be sober."

"Sobriety beyond the score."

After a pause, Otto's eyes gradually changed to those in the poster photo.

"Beethoven."

He said.

Lin Youyou continued to translate.

"Beethoven's piano sonatas represent not only pianists, but also all musicians and music lovers."

"There is a uniqueness in his work that has influenced many composers."

"People call Bach's well-tempered Old Testament, and Beethoven's sonatas the New Testament."

"I don't think it's the right thing to do to assign religious significance to these works."

"But these words tell us that these works are the basis for our study of piano music."

There was applause from the audience.

After the pre-class quotation sharing was over, he signaled Lin Youyou to start.

Returning to the piano again, this time he sat in front of the teacher's piano equipped for him by the organizer, and watched the young man who was the first to step onto the stage in the second half.

"Teacher Otto"

"Senior Sister Lin."

The one who walked onto the stage was Li Qing's first-year postgraduate student.

In the piano department of Rongyuan, Wei Sanwan is the boss, and Li Qing is here.

This female student with long blond hair looks like the Chinese translation of the work she brought to class.

enthusiasm.

After politely greeting the two teachers on the stage, she sat down in front of the piano and began to play.

first movement.

As soon as the deep chords are pressed, she shows her good chord pushing skills.

As the number one seed player in Li Qing's school, Jinfa just won the silver medal No.1 in the piano group of the Rongcheng Youth Instrumental Music Competition earlier this year.

The final will play the Passionate Sonata.

The repertoire that she is good at is under her fingers, and every note seems to have been integrated with her fingers. The harmonious music picture makes people intoxicated. From the audio-visual effect alone, it has improved by more than one level than the beginning of the first half.

If you are grouped by grade, the first half is the undergraduate group, and the second half is the master group.

The blond girl was immersed in the self-indulgent performance, but was suddenly interrupted by Otto's polite cough.

This was the first time today that Otto interrupted the students during their performance.

Lin Youyou walked between the two knowingly.

Otto first affirmed the opening part.

"Very well, you have a lot of ideas in it."

While he was talking, he waved and gestured. Lin Youyou smiled encouragingly while translating.

"However, I think these ideas should be better organized."

When Li An heard this sentence, he quickly wrote it down on the score in front of him, and Ao Tuo said what he wanted to express.

He could feel that in the movement just now, there were many ideas in the design of the blond junior sister, but he couldn't get what kind of emotion the other party wanted to express.

Then the music was interrupted.

"In fact the more ideas you have, the more important it becomes to plan them well."

"In other words, you should better understand your thoughts."

"Why this, why that."

"Because of this, so that."

"It will only be triggered when the order is clear. When the music reaches here, I will use a slower speed. When the music proceeds to the next paragraph, I will change to another processing method."

"In this way, you will always be in a state to play, which is very important for us to play sonata-themed works."

The blond seemed to take quite a backseat from the advice, and her brows parted.

Otto let her continue.

Then the blond started playing again.

The passionate first movement of setting sail again is not like the first half. For example, after Otto gave advice to Liu Boyang, when Liu Boyang played the third-degree etude again, there was an easily perceivable change in the music.

From this perspective, it is not difficult to see the grand structure and grand narrative of the sonata.

As Otto said at the beginning of the second half.

"Beethoven's sonatas cover too much."

But this still couldn't stop the enthusiastic applause from the audience after the blonde girl's performance. At least in the eyes of most undergraduates, the performance strength shown by the blonde senior sister is still their current aggressive goal.
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"come on."

With the end of the blonde girl's performance, No.2 is Deng Shiqi.

Ang Lee cheered him on.

Deng Shiqi's class repertoire is the variation on the theme of Heibel's minuet. In terms of length and structure, this work can't be compared with the enthusiasm chosen by the blonde girl from any angle.

But if it can be used as a repertoire for the graduation concert, Deng Shiqi naturally has his own ideas in it.

Besides, the theme variations are really easy to play, okay?

In this work, Uncle Bei showed a very wonderful writing technique of variation.

In front of the piano, at the moment when three crisp eighth notes were played with a clear staccato, at least Li An felt that the level of this foreign junior was no weaker than that of the blonde girl.

It's not that those who can play complex charts are necessarily better.

Deng Shiqi's work in C major has the warmth of the afternoon sun, just like its clean appearance.

Finger drop is powerful, not sloppy, and every sound can be heard clearly.

In the variations after the presentation of the theme, Deng Shiqi has his own understanding of the counterpoint and rhythm of the melody.

Every time before entering the next variation, he will make a slow down, predicting that the music will enter the next paragraph.

After listening to the 10-minute lively melody, it gives people a full sense of comfort.

And Otto did not interrupt the whole process.

Deng Shiqi withdrew his hand, and Ao Tuo grinned and sighed softly.

Like a tone, Lin Youyou didn't translate, but everyone present could feel it, and the master gave a high evaluation.

"Your fingers dance on the keys."

After Lin Youyou finished translating, she gave a popular science to the audience, and briefly introduced: "This work is based on the theme of Beethoven's Hebel's ballet, In the Wedding of Disturbed Anger - a Vigano-style minuet. Composed, there are twelve variations in it.”

After hearing Lin Youyou's explanation, those who are not familiar with this unpopular work have a preliminary understanding.

"Teacher, what is a Vigano-style minuet?" Ji Yang asked in a low voice.

Li An frowned: "Ahem, I don't know."

Ji Yang felt that he might have asked a question that shouldn't be asked, so he chose to keep his voice silent.

Li An continued to say: "Leave a homework for you, go home and look it up, and you can tell me about it in the next class."

Ji Yang: .
The camera returns to the stage, and Ao Tuo explained in detail the birth of the theme of the variation and some matters that should be paid attention to in performance through the twelve variations in this work.

"Keep a tight grip on the subject."

"When you realize that your variation has lost the content of the theme, you have to rethink how to integrate the theme into it."

In Deng Shiqi's party, Ao Tuo finally proposed a key word - "serious."

Even if it is a cheerful variation, we should deal with it seriously.

"It's no joke that the composer wrote twelve variations for this piece."
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Most of the afternoon passed, and Li An had already memorized how many golden sentences of Ao Tuo.

At the same time, I was really looking forward to Lin Youyou's concert in my heart. I have studied with such a master for three years. With the other party's talent, I am afraid that the current level is beyond the reach of others.

After writing the word 'joke', Li An realized what was behind this sentence.

Ao Tuo is an out-and-out German-Austrian master with a clear attitude towards piano performance, which is traditional, upright and serious.

After Ao Tuo marked Deng Shiqi with "suggested fingering" in several variations, more than 40 minutes had passed in the second half of the master class.

Today's course content left the last two.

It is not difficult to see that in the first half Otto talked about the technique of fingers on the piano, but in the second half he talked more about music.

Seeing Deng Shiqi leaving, Jia Mingyu in the audience signaled Ma Yu to get ready.

Ma Yu nodded and got up calmly, and the surrounding applause naturally rang out.

Even Wei Sanwan looked at this proud student with a smile.

Ma Yu will go to Germany to study after graduation, and in the minds of all members of the Wei family class, he is undoubtedly the one with the highest professional level besides Lin Youyou.

According to gossip from some younger brothers and younger sisters, Master Ma is going abroad after graduation, but the teacher is not willing to let him go, so he chooses to stay in China for three more years.

Only Zheng Haitao asked in the group a week ago: Why did Master Ma apply for a college group?

Ma Yu didn't bring the score when he came on stage.

Fortunately, Lin Youyou prepared a sheet music for everyone in advance.

"Thank you, sister."

Ma Yu took it politely, but did not open it, but put it directly on the music table.

Take three light breaths.

"Dangdang—"

The moment he pressed his right hand, his left hand followed, and two misplaced key drops, one in front and one in the back, began the performance of the No. 16 piano sonata.

G major, op31. no1.

Starting with a soft playing, but without losing the motivation to play a solid rhythm with dots, Ma Yu's performance intention can no longer be obvious.

The funny sound effects bloomed from the piano, and Otto showed a lovely smile. He was infected by this childlike playing, and gave a good evaluation in his heart.

So far, this child is the one who captures the core of the work best.

As the theme of the main part unfolded, the music continued to be played in a seemingly irregular way, upside down, with the right hand in front of the left hand, just like Ma Yu in the performance, and his brows were like Mr. Bean in the funny, showing a A natural joy.

However, it can quite reflect his control over the rhythm.

The beginning is actually just the top-to-bottom decomposition of the G major triad, but it is not easy to do every performance detail, because every note in it has a specific meaning.

Ma Yu has indeed shown everyone that he is the number one brother in school.

When the music came to the second theme, the bright B major began to repeat in the angry bass part, and the expression of the music changed again.

The op31.no1 under Ma Yu's finger shows a second personality in this movement.

Appreciation flashed across Lin Youyou's eyes.

Barenboim, the most outstanding pianist of this century, once said that the two themes of a sonata are usually heroic and lyrical, and they represent different personalities.

Interpreting a sonata requires the expression of multiple personalities to be complete.

The witty and moving piano melody was not stopped by Ao Tuo until the end, perhaps this further enhanced Ma Yu's confidence.

Returning to the first theme at the end, the melody under his hands is free-spirited towards jumping away and going straight forward, and finally ends with two main chords, one high and one low, with distinct strengths and weaknesses.

The beautiful wave of the hand once again drew applause from the audience, as if this moment is not a master class, but a recital.

After the applause fell, Ma Yu turned to look at Ao Tuo.

The scene is quiet.

"You give this music a lot of personality."

"Different personalities."

Lin Youyou paused, then looked at Ao Tuo, "There are still colors."

After Ao Tuo finished speaking, he sat down in front of the piano and picked out a segment he thought Ma Yu played brilliantly to demonstrate and imitate, and then encouraged him to say:
"It's the most obvious quality when you play."

"No matter what you learn in music in the future, you can't lose him."

Just like the expression when translating all motivational words, Lin Youyou's smile always gives people a particularly comfortable feeling.

"Thank you, sister."

Turning around, Ma Yu spoke standard German to Otto

There was a commotion offstage.

"Teacher, what did he say?"

"Thank you."

"Teacher, do you speak German?"

"A little bit."

This little bit verified Ji Yang's conjecture that the teacher had also made preparations for studying abroad.

Ao Tuo was also a little surprised and gave a thumbs up.

Lin Youyou then translated:
"This gift of giving character to music is very precious, and you have to cherish it."

Listening to Ao Tuo's praises one after another, the atmosphere of the scene almost reached a climax, and the face of the person involved, Ma Yu, seemed to be blooming with a proud chrysanthemum.

However, the next moment, his chrysanthemum became reluctant.

"The issue is--"

"We have to play to the score, and you can't bend the score for the character you want to give."

"The ending just now was too confusing."

"I can't hear what you're playing."

These two sentences made Ma Yu retort unconsciously, "I want to express a kind of freedom."

Lin Youyou fed Ma Yu's words back to Ao Tuo.

After hearing this, Ao Tuo nodded with a smile, and made an OK gesture with his right hand, "But first you have to make sure that your rhythm is stable."

'Pfft. '

Someone in the corner of the stage couldn't hold back a laugh, and Ma Yu's face burned instantly.

He, Wei's class is in charge at school, sitting here, being complained about being out of rhythm.

This is the repertoire he is going to participate in the third round of the Xinghai Cup Piano Competition for the college group.

He regretted that the last treatment just now was too casual.

In order to regain his place, he applied to play the final piece again.

Ao Tuo agreed and reminded, "Rhythm is the premise."

Lin Youyou added: "The speed can be slower."

Ma Yu took a deep breath, raised his hand and started playing the ending.

After listening to what the senior sister said, he thought that his control could not be more perfect after playing it once.

However, what greeted him was Otto's getting up.

The old man shook his head and took out a pencil from his shirt pocket again. He took the initiative to open the music score on the music table for Ma Yu, found the last paragraph of the first movement, and drew a circle with his pen.

Looking at the silent scene on the stage, Li An anxiously called Youyou to go up and tell us what happened?

what happened?
Otto circled all the rests in the passage.

"Rests are an important part of music, which means that it must have strict standards."

If Lao Dong was present, Lao Dong would also understand the meaning of these words, 'rests are special notes, you, pony, your rhythm is wrong again. '

Whip Corpse 2.0.

Ma Yu was about to cry, and it was a matter of rhythm again.

Lin Youyou's translation has actually given Ma Yu enough face, and Ao Tuo's original words were, "You should remark the rhythm of this work." '

"The moment of the empty beat and the groove of the music should be perfectly aligned, otherwise you lose the whole content of it."

"I wouldn't suggest you take that as humor or anything, it's not something you should be thinking about right now."

"Rhythm."

After speaking, Otto grinned, and the atmosphere on the stage eased.

Then Ao Tuo gave a detailed explanation with Ma Yu on the strength and weakness of the opening part.

During the whole process, Ma Yu tried his best to concentrate on himself, but he couldn't let go of the laughter just now from the audience.

He didn't care who laughed anymore, he just felt that he had lost his face today, so much so that he hoped that the next Li Ang would have problems when he came on stage, so that he could balance in his heart.

So Ma Yu, who was trying to find a psychological balance, finally wrote down how many things Li An didn't know, anyway, he wrote a lot on the score of this work.

He hadn't practiced the piece in G major yet, but after Ma Yu stepped off the stage amid applause, he felt that he already had the idea to practice this piece.

"Senior brother is here for you."

Before Li An got up, Deng Shiqi stood up first to make way.

All the eyes of the audience were focused here.

Li An, the senior brother, is too unfamiliar to the undergraduate freshmen in Wei's class, let alone others.

Except for a few freshmen who were lucky enough to hear Liszt played by Ang Lee on the afternoon of Teacher's Day, almost none of the rest had heard Ang Lee play the piano.

This year's master's gathering, they didn't know the existence of this senior brother.

It was only after registering for the competition a week ago that they realized that this senior had actually challenged the youth open group.

But anyone can report this name, whether this senior brother has such ability, you have to hear it to know.

"Teacher, come on!"

Ji Yang's sound was not small, and it made Li Muyan in the fourth row and several art examinees in this year's heart jump when they heard it.

They knew that Ji Yang was Teacher Wei's student, and Li An was also Teacher Wei's student. Would it be too impolite for her to call Li An a teacher?

Ji Yang doesn't care about other people's goals, and Li An doesn't care much more.

He took off his jacket and put it on the back of the chair, took off his watch and handed it to Ji Yang.

Turning around and nodding with Deng Shiqi, he walked calmly to the stage while loosening his cuffs.

This back view has a taste.

(End of this chapter)