King of Classical Music

Most people will forget what happened before they were five years old. Even if they remember, it is only a sporadic fragment.But for some people with great memories, they can remember some things very, very clearly.

For example, Min Chen, whenever Julie teased him that "Auston always hugged my thigh and asked for sweets when he was a child", he couldn't refute.Because he himself remembered that scene, the big handful of candy, and the way he wanted candy as if he was cheating.

Min Chen started learning piano when he was 4 years old.

Learning a musical instrument is never easy, and getting started is the number one hurdle.Many people often end their studies in the first month when facing instruments such as piano and violin.Because learning an instrument takes talent, time, and most importantly, patience.

Min Chen is lucky. His talent on the piano is so rare that even Julie, the piano master who enlightened him at the beginning, was horrified beyond description.Julie said this to the Duke of Bertram at the time: "Auston should continue to develop in classical music. This kind of talent... this kind of talent is really once in a hundred years!"

Yes, I have mastered all the basic skills in one month, and started to practice tenth-level repertoire in half a year. After a year, Min Chen, who is only 6 years old, can try to compose some simple music, and use his pair of The immature hands deduce many exquisite and difficult piano pieces.

At first, they wanted their son to learn the piano, just out of a noble etiquette, but after seeing how talented their son was, the Bertram couple also decided to cultivate their son's achievements in classical music.

This matter was naturally agreed by Min Chen. After learning about the piano, Min Chen has gradually matured from a "little gentleman who wants candy every day". At that time, he nodded like a little adult and said, "Well, I want to keep going, I want to compose music."

Since I want to compose music, it is naturally impossible to only learn the piano as an instrument.

The second thing Min Chen tried was the violin.

Julie didn't know much about the violin, so she introduced Min Chen to her friend, a violinist living in Stuttgart, hoping that the other party could cultivate Min Chen's attainments in the violin.

Therefore, Min Chen, who was only 7 years old at the time, came directly from Frankfurt to Stuttgart, and started a violin enlightenment career accompanied by the housekeeper.

Enlightenment requires a good teacher, and later you can formally enter the academy and study with higher-level masters.

Min Chen has long been admitted to the piano department of the Leipzig Conservatory of Music, but the teachers of the academy are too high-level and have never accepted new musicians for many years, so it is natural that such things as violin enlightenment cannot be entrusted to them.

All in all, Min Chen started studying in Stuttgart half a year before officially entering the academy.

Later, some musicians described Osten von Bertram's musical attainments in this way: "He is the well-deserved king of piano in the 21st century, he is the best conductor and composer, he is proficient in many instruments, Including violin, trumpet, French horn, clarinet..."

That's right, the violin can only be placed in the "Proficient" category, and it can't be discussed separately, because... Min Chen's talent in the violin is really mediocre.This generally refers to the comparison with his piano talent. In fact, if Min Chen conquers the violin alone, he may become an excellent violin master within 40 years.

However, in the entire classical music world, this kind of talent can be possessed by any violinist with a name.

There are three types of stringed instruments, rubbed stringed instruments, plucked stringed instruments and percussion stringed instruments.

Among these, it is obvious that the violin belongs to the rubbing instrument, while the piano belongs to the percussion instrument.It stands to reason that although there are different classifications of stringed instruments, if they all belong to the same stringed instrument, there will not be much difference.But for Min Chen, when he faced the violin, he really seemed to have met a mountain.

For a piano, 52 white keys, 36 black keys, and 3 pedals, that's all there is to playing a piano.In Min Chen's heart, he understands the piano very well and how to play the piano, but when he met the violin at the age of 7, he was completely stunned.

This is a stringed instrument that selects the tone entirely by pressing on the strings.

She will not have a specific key for you to press, nor will she have a specific sustain, soft tone, and mute method for you to choose.Compared with the piano, the violin is really a wayward and proud princess, you want to play me?Can!Then you come to conquer me!

From "Wolfart" at the beginning to "Kaiser" later, Min Chen's progress was not slow at all, and even surprised Julie's old friend, the violinist from Stuttgart.However, Min Chen himself was rather dissatisfied, because compared with his speed on the piano, it was really too slow.

In his bones, Min Chen is really an extremely proud, even a bit conceited person.

Born into an aristocratic family, with an outstanding appearance, he was admitted to the Leipzig Academy of Music within half a year of playing the piano, and was even praised by many people as a rare piano genius in a century.

Min Chen is ambitious. Even though he is only 7 years old now, he has already begun to foresee his future at the pinnacle of music.He believes that he has the strength to get everything he wants, no matter how well he is concealed by noble etiquette, and how gentlemanly and humble he looks on the outside, what is hidden in his bones is still growing pride.

To be proud to a certain extent is to be arrogant.

But when this pride was about to turn into arrogance, Min Chen's self-confidence was completely crushed by the violin.

He thought that he could master this instrument very quickly like learning the piano, but what he never expected was that in the first three months when he first started to touch the violin, he was almost led by this instrument. It is far from the progress of learning piano back then.

To a proud man, failure is a shame and a shame.Although the Stuttgart violinist repeatedly praised "Austen, you are so good", Min Chen couldn't accept his praise at all, because he knew...there are too many people who are better than him on the violin Too much.

After half a year of studying and getting along with each other, Min Chen has already laid a solid foundation for the violin, and at the same time, he no longer has the arrogance and conceit he had when he first came to Stuttgart. Even when the violinist finished the last lesson, he seemed very I don't care.

The child's performance made the violinist frown involuntarily.

It is true that he heard from Julie that this child's talent on the piano is really unparalleled, and as long as there are no accidents, the future is really limitless.And although this child's talent in the violin can only be regarded as average, there is still hope of entering the world's top orchestra in the future. If he gives up other things and concentrates on studying the violin, he may become a world-class violin master.

But now, the child was clearly devastated.The experienced violinist also understands that if there is no smooth sailing on the piano before, I am afraid that this child would not have become like this, but it is precisely because the contrast is too obvious and the gap is too big that he appears so anxious and depressed.

So... no matter how precocious you are, are you just a 7-year-old?

After thinking about this, the violinist smiled helplessly. Now that his studies are all over, it stands to reason that he has completed the task given to him by the Burtram family.But now, getting along with him for half a year has also made him feel caring for this student. Now that the student has encountered a big mountain, and even this big mountain has cast a gray veil on his heart, as a teacher, he Naturally, it is necessary to remove this last trouble for the students.

After thinking for a while, the Stuttgart violinist suddenly remembered a student whom an old friend often mentioned.Without further hesitation, he said to Min Chen: "Auston, you are leaving Stuttgart tomorrow, so... the teacher will take you to the piano store, how about it?"

Min Chen looked up in surprise.

"You have been taught one-on-one by a teacher alone since you were a child. I'm afraid you haven't been to a piano store? There will be many teachers in the piano store to guide many children. An old friend of mine opened a piano store. This afternoon The classes are all over, I'll take you to have a look."

Then when Min Chen didn't respond, the violinist took Min Chen to the piano store.

Min Chen still remembers the name of that piano shop, it is called "Aceby Music Shop".

This is a very ordinary-looking piano store, and there is a white grand piano in the beautiful and clean window.Of course it can't be a Steinway, it's just an ordinary piano.After entering the piano store, many other musical instruments came into view.

Trumpets, saxophones, classical guitars, clarinets hanging on the entire wall...

There are also many, many violins that are specially collected in piano boxes.

Min Chen's hearing is very strong, and his sense of pitch is quite good. He even heard many people playing piano, violin, saxophone and so on when he was standing at the gate before entering this piano store.

He really didn't understand, with so many voices mixed together, could he still practice quietly?

As if understanding his confusion, the violinist said with a smile: "Oston, not everyone has the favorable conditions and environment like you. In fact, the sound insulation effect of this piano shop is already very good, but you can't Look at them according to your requirements, your hearing and pitch. In this way, let's go in directly. It will be the time for the noon break soon. Today is the weekend. I think you should be able to see many children who are about your age. "

After entering the piano shop, Min Chen met with the owner of the piano shop under the guidance of his teacher.After the latter learned of the intention of his old friend's trip, he nodded thoughtfully, and then asked, "Are you talking about Lu? Well, this child can indeed be compared with your student's situation. How about that?" , it will be the break time soon, and I will have someone take Auston to Lu's piano room."

At that time, Min Chen didn't notice the conversation between the two adults at all. He had never been to such a place, and he had never heard so many piano sounds mixed together.Among these piano sounds, some are really magic sounds, some are really plucking cotton, but there are also...

Very nice!

Looking back, he found that his teacher was talking and didn't notice him, so Min Chen left the office straight away, let his ears go, and began to look for the sound of the violin.

Well, it's "Kaisai op.12". When he practiced two months ago, it didn't seem so smooth.

Turned a corner, passed two piano rooms, and finally, Min Chen stopped in front of a piano room.

He looked in through the window, and when he saw the boy playing the violin seriously, he froze for a moment.

——A Chinese person? !