"Tempest"
Read in Chinese HERE (中文版)
I feel I've been always playing Beethoven's piano sonatas ever since I started playing sonatas. I didn't ask for it, but my piano teachers always asked me to play Beethoven. One of the teachers only let me play the fast movements (the first movement for sure, and possibly the third or the fourth movement, but she never asked me to play the second movement). I didn't understand it back then, but now I can say I don't like that, and I wish I learned the complete sonata, rather than just single movements because I think it has a really bad influence on me. That actually makes me feel unfamiliar with all the slow movements. I don't feel like playing the slow movements, or I should say, I feel I don't know how to play the slow movements. However, there are many beautiful melodies in the slow movements. And I think it's even more impressive if you can attract people's attention by playing slow movements rather than the fast ones.
Although the third movement is my favorite in "Tempest", to me, the second movement of this sonata is very special. It was the first time I enjoyed playing the slow movement. I remember I felt calm, peaceful, comfortable, and full of hope when I played it. For the first time I learned how to enjoy it. I felt very happy. As for the first movement, I really wish I could be more dramatic. Sometimes I think I really don't like to play Beethoven's music, but I guess that's because I can't play it well, and that's because I don't understand his music. My life is too ordinary. I'm an ordinary person, and there's nothing too dramatic in my life, at least not in or before 2013. (Something more dramatic happened in recent years hehe) As a musician, that's really really bad. I believe that all the great composers all have their own life stories to tell, which is why they are able to create all these amazing music. If we don't have that kind of experiences like they did, how do we face their music with the right attitude and make great interpretations of their music? I really don't know, and I really want to know. To composers, music is about expressing your feelings to others without using words. To performers, sometimes it's hard to connect those feelings with music, but it's worse if we don't even have those feelings...
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Although the third movement is my favorite in "Tempest", to me, the second movement of this sonata is very special. It was the first time I enjoyed playing the slow movement. I remember I felt calm, peaceful, comfortable, and full of hope when I played it. For the first time I learned how to enjoy it. I felt very happy. As for the first movement, I really wish I could be more dramatic. Sometimes I think I really don't like to play Beethoven's music, but I guess that's because I can't play it well, and that's because I don't understand his music. My life is too ordinary. I'm an ordinary person, and there's nothing too dramatic in my life, at least not in or before 2013. (Something more dramatic happened in recent years hehe) As a musician, that's really really bad. I believe that all the great composers all have their own life stories to tell, which is why they are able to create all these amazing music. If we don't have that kind of experiences like they did, how do we face their music with the right attitude and make great interpretations of their music? I really don't know, and I really want to know. To composers, music is about expressing your feelings to others without using words. To performers, sometimes it's hard to connect those feelings with music, but it's worse if we don't even have those feelings...
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