A year ago, in the romantic and beautiful capital of Paris, the hazy and clear moonlight slowly shone down from the sky, shining on the fair and handsome face of the young man, forming a beautiful scene that Min Chen will never forget.
Since then, a name has been born in the world—
"nlight".
"Twilight in the Moonlight".
Half a year ago, Qi Mu and Min Chen played the song "Twilight" hand in hand. At that time, the song was very soothing and gentle. Although it only had a short melody, it already made Qi Mu feel the beauty and splendor contained in it.
But now, when the piece was almost finished, Qi Mu even discovered that the four movements in "Twilight" had been perfected, and they seemed to have reached a certain peak in terms of technical difficulty and emotional expression.
"This is actually a sonata for piano and violin?! Wait a minute... piano and violin... I saw the semi-finished sheet music a few days ago, wouldn't it be this piece?!" Qi Mu looked at Min Chen in surprise. , he thought for a while, and then asked, "Is that the score for the violin?!"
Min Chen looked up at him: "Well, it's a semi-finished score for the violin, only the last part of the fourth movement is left."
Hearing such an answer, Qi Mu could no longer hide his excitement and joy. He sat back on the piano bench and began to carefully ask Min Chen about the song.
An outstanding piece of music is a supreme treasure for any musician.
And this is a sonata, or an excellent violin sonata, how could Qi Mu not be excited? Now he can't even wait to hear it with his own ears, what kind of song is this
Probably because he majored in piano, among the pieces written by Min Chen, there are not many violin concertos, but most of them are piano concertos. For example, the "Violin Concerto in D Major" that Qi Mu once played at the centennial celebration of the S City Symphony Orchestra was one of the few violin symphonies by Min Chen.
When Qi Mu first met Min Chen in Huaxia, at the solo recital organized by Tan Lao and Du Sheng, Professor Carr once said: "Auston, your two musical styles are really similar. "
As a representative of the academic school, Professor Carr has a unique and meticulous understanding of classical music, and will never make mistakes in judgment, which shows that—
Qi Mu and Min Chen's musical styles are really similar.
Music style sounds very mysterious. It seems that everyone's musical style is related to their personal experience and perception. But in fact, even two people with very different life experiences (such as Min Chen and Qi Mu) may indeed have very similar musical styles in some respects.
For example, both of them have delicate and rich feelings on the basis of superb and excellent technology. Their handling of the sound is more inclined to the perfect classicism, the sound is orthodox and clear, and the sound of the piano is euphemistic and charming.
Compared with the gentle and beautiful impressionism and romanticism, the perfect and orthodox music like a textbook is the most prominent feature of Qi Mu and Min Chen.
It is precisely because of the extreme criticality and seriousness in the strength, rhythm and level of each note that Qi Mu's gorgeous and clear violin style and Min Chen's splendid piano style are created.
A new violin sonata by a composer whose musical style is so similar to his own
This is literally the "Bible"!
The tiredness from cleaning all day suddenly disappeared. With this piano, Qi Mu listened carefully to the piano part of "Twilight under the Moonlight". After the two discussed the four movements on the violin part, Qi Mu simply took his own violin and demonstrated it a few times.
The bright and bright moonlight illuminated the piano room. The sun rose in the east and the moon set in the west. The lights in the piano room did not go out all night, and Qi Mu and the two also discussed here all night.
No one felt tired at all. Even when Qi Mu played the next piece of music along Min Chen's unfinished score, the always indifferent and reserved man could no longer hide his excitement. Min Chen stood up abruptly. He embraced the handsome young man in front of him.
Qi Mu was still holding the violin handle in his left hand, and the bow in his right hand. He had just finished the incomplete fourth movement along with the melody that suddenly sounded in his heart, when he felt such a warm hug.
In a hug from behind, Min Chen buried his face in the young man's shoulder, and the hot breath blew onto Qi Mu's collarbone along with this movement.
"You are my muse..."
It sounded like a murmur.
At this time, Qi Mu finally realized what he had just played. In fact, he himself didn't know how to play the incomplete fourth movement. He just followed his heart and played the melody that had been clamoring in his brain.
Qi Mudan smiled and reached out and grabbed Min Chen's hand, and said in a low voice, "Min Chen, I really want to hear Bai Ai play this "Twilight". This is your style, and this is also Bai Ai's style... "
"I want to play with you..."
There was a sudden stagnation in the throat, and after a long time, Qi Mu chuckled and nodded: "Well, let's play together."
That afternoon, Qi Mu personally sent the man to the airport and watched the silver-white plane pierce through the sky and fly towards Berlin.
Even if he didn't sleep all night, Qi Mu didn't get tired at all, because being able to witness the birth of such an exquisite piece of music is a lifetime opportunity for any musician.
After returning to the apartment, Qi Mu briefly tidied up, and decided to take a good rest and prepare for the next day's work.
When Qi Mu closed the door of the piano room, Min Chen's sigh-like voice sounded in his ears: "You can write a beautiful piece, and you can also become an excellent conductor..."
The corners of his lips curled slightly, Qi Mu shook his head and deleted the sentence from his mind.
Everyone has their own dreams, Min Chen said frankly, his most noble dream is to compose moving and beautiful music. To this end, he needs to understand the sound, melody, structure, and even the principle of sound production of each instrument. In this case, he touched the piano and fell in love with this instrument.
For Qi Mu, his dream has always been only the violin.
Just a simple violin.
Qi Mu will never forget the New Year's concert of Bai Ai that he heard with his adoptive parents in the cramped and crowded living room in the last life. The splendid performance of the chief violin made him engraved in his heart forever when he was young, and he will never forget that melody in this life.
For him at that time, it was a piece of wonderful music that I am afraid that he could never reach in his life. It was imprinted in the deepest part of his soul, and it has become a kind of dream-like existence.
Even after just a few years, Qi Mu found the violin piece—a piece of music from Tchaikovsky's ballet "The Nutcracker". March" was much simpler, but Qi Mu could never forget the wonderful sound of the violin at that time.
What he likes is not "The Nutcracker", but the violin. This is his most simple dream, and it is also the goal that he keeps working hard for.
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After the long vacation, Wei Ai began to enter a period of special guest performances. At the end of last year, Wei Ai had accepted many invitations and was about to perform various performances in various countries and regions, including music festivals and theater anniversaries.
So when Min Chen just sent the violin score of "Twilight in the Moonlight" to Vienna, Qi Mu just signed for the score quickly. Go to the airport.
When Qi Mu just got off the airport and arrived at the hotel, before he had packed up his surname Li, he received a call from Min Chen. Hearing the voice on the phone, Qi Mu asked in astonishment, "So that's a violin score?!"
Min Chen, who endured the whole day in secret, finally pretended to be nonchalant and called: "..."
Qi Mu said helplessly as he hung up his towel: "I just received the courier this morning, and I was about to go out. Wait a minute... Didn't I tell you that Wei Ai is going to London soon. Is the performance yet? In February, the British royal family sent an invitation letter to Wei Ai, and we are going to perform in four days, did I really not tell you?"
Min Chen: "..."
After a moment of silence, he said in a low tone, "Well, you didn't tell me."
Qi Mu pursed his lips and said helplessly: "Okay, then I probably forgot. There are a lot of things in the orchestra in the past half month. I may have always wanted to tell you, but I forgot to tell you." After a pause, he added: "It doesn't matter, I have signed for the sheet music, and I will take it out and take a look when I return to Vienna next month."
As soon as he finished speaking, Min Chen's surprised voice sounded: "Next month?"
Qi Mu nodded and said, "Yes, after this London concert is over, there will be a music festival in Chicago in a week. In half a week, we will also have a friendship event with New Love, so we will also have a music festival in Chicago. The United States will stay for a while, and it is estimated that it should return to Europe in a month.”
Min Chen: "..."
"Well, don't worry. After I saw that it was your courier, I put it away and won't lose it."
"...I want to play with you."
"Ensemble?" Qi Mu was stunned for a moment. He put the things in his hands aside and walked to the window.
I saw that under the dark and deep night, the bright lights decorated this city that never sleeps like a galaxy. The neon lights of the city make the stars in the sky dark, but the cold artificial lights also have a unique beauty.
It was as if he saw the depressed expression of the man at the moment under the same moonlight. Qi Mu stretched out his hand and covered the floor-to-ceiling window, and comforted with a chuckle: "Okay, wait for me to come back... Let's play together."