Pei Zixi's Misery Life

Pei Zixi was a little moved. Originally, his main purpose in coming to Paris was to play, but he didn't succeed in playing. He stayed in the piano room all day and became an otaku.However, thinking of the gap between him and Chu Jingxia, he shook his head and refused, "I will not practice other musicians' pieces, I will continue to practice Bach." I played Bach day and night for two days.

In private, Anna joked with Pei Zixi, "He won't become a pianist who can only play one musician." Because Pei Zixi's Bach is already very proficient and beautiful.

"His situation is a bit special. Once he understands the works of other musicians, he will play the same movingly," Joseph replied confidently, with a light of expectation in his eyes, "I am waiting for that day to come."

"Does he know too little about these composers, so it's difficult to understand," Anna expressed his thoughts. "Apart from playing the piano, is his knowledge of music very poor?"

"I actually forgot such an important thing." Joseph patted his thigh. "It seems that what he needs to learn most is all kinds of music knowledge."

When Pei Zixi came out of the piano room, there were several stacks of books on the coffee table in the living room. He flipped through them, from the most basic knowledge of numbered musical notation to the development of music history, how to appreciate music, how to appreciate a piece of music, knowledge in all aspects.Most of them are about Bach and Mozart, from autobiographies written by many writers to letters written by musicians themselves.

There was a note next to the stack of books, asking him to read the books from left to right and top to bottom after writing.After reading all of them, there was no book left, and he said that he was not allowed to practice the piano until he finished reading.

Pei Zixi's face was bitter, he knew that he had gone out to play for two days, and now he had to sit here and read a bunch of boring music theory knowledge.

After dinner, Pei Zixi honestly picked up the book and looked at it. Some books are in English, some are in French, and there are also German, Italian, and Russian, but there is no Chinese.Pei Zixi was very depressed. He could basically understand English, but he could barely understand French, and there were still many terms he couldn't understand. As for other languages, he was in the dark.Do I have to learn German, Italian and Russian in a short period of time?

Pei Zixi had no choice but to pick up what he could understand.

Pei Zixi has a personality. He doesn't know whether it is good or bad. He may not want to do many things, but as long as he does it, he will find a way to do the best, and once he puts himself into learning, he will devote himself wholeheartedly.He opened the book with a reluctant attitude, but when he found that there was a lot of knowledge in it that would benefit him in learning the piano, he immediately became serious.He was so engrossed in watching that he didn't even know that Joseph and Anna were back.

Joseph and Anna glanced at each other, and they walked into the room quietly without disturbing Pei Zixi, who was reading a book in the living room.

When Joseph and Anna asked Pei Zixi to go to the music competition together, Pei Zixi put down the book with some reluctance, "Can I take the book to read?"

"No." Joseph looked at Pei Zixi seriously, "If you were playing the piano on stage while the audience was doing other things, would you be happy?"

Pei Zixi lowered her head in embarrassment.

"We must respect the music and the people who play it. During the competition, you have to listen to it carefully. If you don't like it, even if you don't want to listen, you can't do other things," Joseph taught Pei Zixi, "As a player who likes Musicians, the first thing to do is to learn to respect music. If we don’t even have basic respect, we can’t say we like music.”

Pei Zixi nodded with half understanding, but Joseph's words were firmly in her mind.

The first one was the violin competition, half of which had been eliminated in the previous round, and there were still about [-] contestants in the remaining half. This round will eliminate half of them again, and enter the third round to compete for rankings.The same goes for other types of instruments.

Pei Zixi listened fascinatedly to the performance of various styles and many pieces on the stage, and the thought of wandering off had long since been forgotten.When he heard a particularly beautiful piece of music, Pei Zixi opened his eyes wide and watched excitedly, his hands moved quickly on the table involuntarily.Especially when it was time to play the piano, he excitedly stood up several times.

Joseph and Anna were once again thankful that they had chosen the right method. Seeing Pei Zixi, who was somewhat indifferent, so excited, he knew that he had gained a lot.

After walking out of the concert hall, Pei Zixi said excitedly, "It turns out that Mozart and Beethoven should be played like that." After speaking, he added, "But I think my Bach is better than the contestants."

"Aren't you being too arrogant," Joseph joked.

Before Pei Zixi could answer, a girl next to her said angrily, "Who are you, how dare you look down on people like this? Since you are so good, why didn't you participate in the competition." Standing next to the girl was a boy who was No.1 in the second round of this competition. the winners.

Anna knew the boy, named Krabis, a German, a student of another music university in Paris, and he was very good.Anna greets Krabis.

Krabis returned the greeting politely, and looked at Pei Zixi several times, "Hello, Teacher Anna and Mr. Joseph, it's an honor to meet you."

"Crabbits, they look down on people so much, why do you have to salute to them," the girl shouted dissatisfied.

Pei Zixi looked embarrassed and didn't know how to reply.

"Please don't care about Karen's attitude," Krabis quickly apologized, and stopped Karen from continuing, but looked at Pei Zixi.

Pei Zixi turned his face away, not wanting to apologize for his words, because he really felt that his Bach was better than Krabis.

"Xi likes the Mozart you play very much," Joseph asked Pei Zixi without explaining, "Xi, is that so?"

Pei Zixi nodded honestly, "Mozart is indeed very good, but I think the best Mozart is that Joyce."

Both Joseph and Anna sighed in their hearts, thinking that Pei Zixi was too ignorant of the world. He had already found the steps, and he could just say a few more good words, but he made unexpected troubles.

No matter how magnanimous Krabis was, his face changed color, and he looked at Pei Zixi with sharp eyes, "Can I listen to your Bach?"

"I'm not saying that you play badly, you play very well, and I'm very touched," Pei Zixi finally realized that he had said something wrong, but the words that he made up for it could not make people feel relieved.

Anna was busy trying to smooth things over, "Is this good? After you finish the competition, come to my house to play the piano together. You can listen to his Bach, how about it?"

Krabis stared at Pei Zixi, and Pei Zixi regretted being talkative, so he nodded in agreement.After all, it is not suitable to fight against others during the game.

The girl took Krabis by the arm and scolded him for paying attention to the words of an unknown person.

Pei Zixi apologized to Joseph and Anna embarrassedly.

After getting in the car, Joseph started the car and said, "Your Bach is indeed more beautiful than his. Although you are telling the truth, you should also pay attention to your conduct as a human being."

"I didn't look down on him," Pei Zixi said.

"You have an old saying that the speaker does not mean but the hearer means," Joseph replied.

"I want to finish listening to the game, okay?" Pei Zixi wanted to continue listening.

Joseph agreed.

Pei Zixi continued to practice the piano, but there was one more task, reading.However, after listening to the competition, Pei Zixi's Mozart played somewhat decently, but there were heavy traces of imitation.

"It's okay for you to imitate now, but you can't always imitate others. Imitating others is tantamount to slow suicide. If you want to play well, you have to play in the way you like." Joseph taught Pei Zixi again.

When Pei Zixi was sleeping, she tossed and turned to think about what her own style was. As a result, when she woke up the next day, she played confusedly again. Both Joseph and Anna felt that Pei Zixi was a miracle, since she played well the night before. It's not okay to sleep badly.

Joseph decided to let Pei Zixi go, except for the necessary fingering exercises, let him experience and understand by himself, and at the same time asked him not to abandon the study of music knowledge, and read all the books he recommended.For those books whose languages ​​he did not know, Pei Zixi had no choice but to write down the names, and decided to look for the Chinese version after returning home.