From Composer to Entertainment Superstar

Under the attention of hundreds of millions of viewers, Horwitz appeared.

The crowd of thousands of people was silent at this moment. Everyone was staring at Horwitz on the stage.

After Wang Xuan played "Dream Wedding" and "Canon" perfectly, Horwitz dared to challenge Wang Xuan, and he must have something to rely on. Everyone is looking forward to the music Horwitz is about to play.

Horvitz had already sat down in front of the piano and said softly: "When I was a child, I personally experienced the Moravian War, which lasted for nearly thirty years. The war broke up and displaced countless families, and my family was also affected by this.

During the war, I was forced to become a refugee. Fortunately, I had a relative in Dengcheng, so my family moved to Dengcheng. Before leaving, I looked at the devastated hometown and felt a lot. I wanted to write a piano song for my hometown.

Qu. But due to my limited ability at that time, I never really wrote it out.

Some time ago, I returned to Moravia again, to the place where I was born. Looking at the ruins of my home after the war, that feeling came to my mind again.

I was thinking, if it hadn't been for that war, where would I be now? What would have happened to the people here? After traveling all over Moravia, I finally got some inspiration and composed the piece I'm about to play.

, called "Moravian Rhapsody", I made a fool of myself."

As soon as he finished speaking, Horwitz began to play.

As the saying goes, an expert will know as soon as he takes action. If he dares to challenge Wang Xuan, Horwitz's performance level is indeed very high. Apart from the top ten international pianists present, there may not be more than two people who can surpass him.

At the same time, the quality of his music is also very high. The style of the music is sometimes gentle and filled with deep sadness, and sometimes it is passionate, as if it contains overwhelming anger.

After a short prelude of about one minute, the whole song enters the Foria theme and its five variations. Starting at 1:24, the dull bass begins; at 2:06, the first variation, the harmony begins to appear, the bass and the upper part begin.

The voices are performed simultaneously. The melodious and low-pitched music style is filled with deep sadness, as if it is telling the desolation caused by the war.

When it comes to the second variation, the tempo is very fast, and the music style immediately becomes aggressive and high-spirited, as if it contains overwhelming anger.

The variation of three basses struck again, and for a moment, the tragic scenes of war, including famine, disease, devastation, displacement, and even despair, seemed to appear before the eyes of many people present.

The stubborn bass of variation four briefly subsided, bringing a moment of relief and tranquility to the variation.

When it comes to variation five, the atmosphere becomes solemn and radical again, as if it is indicting the disasters this war has brought to people.

Everyone was immersed in Horwitz's performance. Their moods fluctuated with the piano music, sometimes depressed, sometimes angry, sometimes helpless, sometimes desperate. The entire Bird's Nest was filled with this desolate mood.

Finally, Horwitz finished playing.

The scene was eerily silent, and many people were still silent in the "Moravian Rhapsody" played by Horwitz.

After a long time, warm applause broke out.

"It's amazing! This piece of music has great potential. If it can be improved a little more, it will definitely have the potential to be passed down from generation to generation," Randall said.

"Indeed, the song is a good song, but the whole process is only desolate, despair and anger, which is obviously not enough to be passed down to the world. Although the war has brought countless disasters to the local people, people cannot always remain silent in the past, and cannot remain silent in the war.

, we need to look forward. Life must go on, reconstruction after the war, and rebirth are what this song should express most." Xiaoge also said.

"Indeed, but it is also rare. After all, Horwitz is so young and can compose music of such quality. To use a classic Chinese saying: The waves behind the Yangtze River push the waves ahead," said Egelina.

"Well, the war decades ago was indeed too tragic. In towns, many citizens faced poverty or financial difficulties due to the impact of the war on the city and its economic activities.

For the countryside, the transfer of land to the church or the higher nobility reduced the land holdings of the lower nobility to 10%. Only a century ago, they still possessed more total land than the greater nobility.

Almost 90% of the population lived as subordinate peasants on land owned by the Catholic Church and the aristocracy. At the same time, the continuation of "second-class serfs" in Central Europe meant the survival of feudal customs that had disappeared or were about to be abandoned in Western Europe.

The local peasants revolted but failed. The consequence of the failure was a more harsh system. The landowners, nobles and peasants once again confirmed the long-standing demand for labor, requiring peasants to serve the landlords three days a week as usual, or to work during busy farming periods.

Seven days have passed. This war has brought great disasters to the local people. How many people have been displaced and everything is devastated." Someone said.

"I have seen a data here. For Moravia, thirty years of war have brought about economic chaos. At the same time, due to conflict, famine, disease and immigration or exile, the population has dropped sharply, at least by half.

"

"Tsk, tsk, how miserable!"

"It's rare that Horwitz had the heart to compose such a piece of music for this war."

Other top pianists also gave Horwitz more or less high praise for this piece. As for Horwitz's performance level, it is naturally very superb, needless to say.

Horwitz enjoyed listening to the applause and seeing the changed expressions of the Chinese audience.

Randall and others said that the theme of his piece needed to be sublimated, and his teacher also said that his piece was a little lacking, but Horvitz thought it was harmless.

This is a piece that took him nearly three years to perfect step by step. He feels that his piece is not inferior to Wang Xuan's two pieces "Dream Wedding" and "Canon" and is enough to be passed down to the world.

What he lacks is an opportunity!

Now the opportunity has come. He devoted himself wholeheartedly, and his performance just now almost achieved the perfect effect in his mind.

At the end of the song, the audience roared with applause, as evidenced by the dramatic change in the faces of the Chinese audience.

With a confident smile on his face, Horvitz stood up and bowed gently to the audience, and then asked softly to Wang Xuan, who was about to take the stage: "Mr. Wang Xuan, how do you like this piece of music of mine?"

He seemed to be asking for advice, but everyone could hear the pride in his tone. He was actually showing off, as if to say, just praise him...

At this moment, everyone was looking at Wang Xuan.

All the audiences at the scene and in front of the TV also looked at Wang Xuan. Some foreign audiences were gloating about his misfortune, while Chinese audiences were a little worried. On Weibo, many people were already speaking unconfidently.

"what to do?"

"It's over. The foreigner's song "Moravian Rhapsody" seems to be very good."

"It's really good. This piece of music makes me feel like I'm listening to a symphony."

"He obviously came prepared, what should we do now? Can Wang Xuan defeat him?"

"I said, why are you so anxious? Can you have some confidence in Wang Xuan?"

"That's right, do you remember what Wang Xuan said just now? He reassured us that foreigners can't win this competition, and even Jesus possessed by him can't win."

"That's right, Wang Xuan used to be very humble when he spoke. When did he ever use such a sure tone? When he was humble, Wang Xuan was invincible. Now he is full of arrogance. This foreigner, take the lead.

What about winning?”

"Look on!"

.....

On the other side, Wang Xuan looked calm, thinking of a war rhapsody? It didn’t seem to be very good.

The song is not very good and lacks a lot of meaning.

Wang Xuan just went out to learn about this war, and his feeling was not very good. At least it was far worse than what China had experienced in the past hundred years.

Compared with war and tragedy, who could be as miserable as China's nearly 100 years ago?

In the face of China's War of Resistance and Liberation, this Moravian War was like a town fight.

He clapped his hands gently, and just when Horwitz thought Wang Xuan was going to praise him, Wang Xuan shook his head and said, "The performance is okay, but the music is a little less interesting."

Horwitz was stunned when he heard this, and then said angrily: "What a loud tone. In this case, please give me some advice from Mr. Wang Xuan!"

"No problem." Wang Xuan said, stepping onto the stage.

Horwitz stepped aside, and Wang Xuan changed his stool and sat down next to the piano.

"You just played a piece of "Moravian Rhapsody", and I just happen to have a piece of "Yangyang Chinese Rhapsody" here. You have to listen carefully and see how the piece I played compares to yours.

What's the difference between that piece of music?" Wang Xuan said.

The song "Chinese Rhapsody" that Wang Xuan was going to play should have been called "Croatian Rhapsody" in another time and space, but Wang Xuan changed the name to a name more suitable for this situation.

This piece comes from the album "The piano player" and was composed by composer Tonci Huljic. ​​It was played by Maxim Mrvica. The music uses a bright rhythm to describe the ruins in the ashes of Croatia after being baptized by war.

The tragic scene of the setting sun reflected in a pool of blood and dust.

After the war in Croatia, the gunpowder smoke that had not yet dissipated was lingering in the air. The sky was a little low, whether it was a sign before the rain or the spread of gunpowder smoke. The clouds showed a melancholic gray in the sky. The collapsed walls made the messy debris

The ground was paved with stones, and the dust swayed in the air, eventually settling and returning to the earth.

Among the ruins destroyed by the war, an unknown white flower bloomed, swaying slightly in the wind.

It watched people coming and going, watched the chariots and tanks threatening to destroy its roots and soil, and watched the birds occasionally stop in panic, trying to find some bread crumbs in the cracks of the stones where the people were gone...

...

Only when night comes, it can see peace. In this land next to the Adriatic Sea, the stars have been particularly bright in recent years. Perhaps it is because the neon lights and busy traffic have dispersed. In such a night, there is sadness

, there is also a silent reminder of the desolation.

The chords of the song are extremely beautiful. Every time I hear this song, I always feel a touch of sadness and strength in my heart. Because I have a special emotion for this song, I dare not play it more and more, for fear that it will bring back memories.

The melody of this song is passionate and high-pitched. It is an emerging famous song in the 21st century and is Maxim's representative work.

However, Wang Xuan felt that compared with China's experiences in the past century, the war in Croatia was also child's play, and this song was more suitable to describe China's post-war scenes.

This piece of music did not exist in this time and space, and Wang Xuan was the original author, so Wang Xuan simply renamed it "Yangyang Chinese Rhapsody".

The audience at the scene and all the viewers in front of the TV were happy when they heard Wang Xuan's words.

"The foreigner just played a piece of "Moravian Rhapsody," and Wang Xuan immediately played a piece of "Yangyang Chinese Rhapsody." This is totally a slap in the face."

"Familiar formula, familiar taste. On the stage of "The King of Masked Singer", didn't Wang Xuan often make a fool of himself?"

"I just think this guy is so unbelievable. It doesn't matter if he can make people laugh at pop songs, but now piano music can also make people laugh at him? You know, Wang Xuan's "Chinese Rhapsody" is most likely a temporary creation.

Yes!"

"Ah? Temporary creation on site? No way?"

"Otherwise? Wang Xuan didn't know that the foreigner would suddenly challenge him, nor did he know that the foreigner would come up with such a song as "Moravian Rhapsody". Do you think he would prepare this "Old Chinese Rhapsody" in advance? Unless

This piece of music was composed by him before."

"Hiss! If you don't tell me, I haven't noticed yet. Is this fucking human?"

"So scary!"

...

Not to mention the melon-eating masses like China, even Randall and others widened their eyes when they heard this.

"No way? Mr. Wang Xuan also plays a rhapsody?"

"Original on the spot?"

"Probably not, he should have composed it before, just like "Dream Wedding". That time Mr. Wang Xuan came on stage to play by chance, but he played it directly. If it was original on the spot, it would be too much.

It’s unbelievable, I would rather believe that he had composed the music before.”

"The problem is that Horvitz has just finished playing a war rhapsody, and Mr. Wang Xuan is about to play a war rhapsody behind him."

"Maybe it's a coincidence?"

"Man, don't worry about whether Mr. Wang Xuan created it on the spot. I have a hunch that another great song will be born in front of us."

.....

Horvitz snorted coldly when he heard this: "I'll wait and see."

Wang Xuan smiled and stopped talking.

He closed his eyes, and while adjusting his state, he also filtered "Croatian Rhapsody" several times in his mind.

The whole scene slowly became quiet.

Everyone looked at Wang Xuan, not daring to blink for fear of missing a detail.

After a few breaths like this, Wang Xuan opened his eyes in excitement, and his slender fingers moved on the keys. In an instant, a great piece of music destined to leave its name in the history of piano was born in his hands.

The prelude of the Croatian Rhapsody is very melancholy and low-pitched. The first part of the piano is played on a high note, and the harmonies of all the instruments except the piano are elongated, creating a depressing state and creating a desolate, tragic and vast artistic conception.

Of course, Wang Xuan only performed on the piano at this time and had no other instruments. However, due to Wang Xuan's superb performance, everyone at the scene felt the depression, the tragedy, the grief and despair.

His style of music is bright and wild, but underneath the bright and wild style of music is a deep sadness.

Everyone at the scene widened their eyes.

In front of their eyes, there seemed to be unnamed tombstones devoured by the war, and the ruins of their homeland scorched by the war. Among the ruins, there were dancers in white dancing against the blood-red sun; fighter planes roared past, tanks broke through the walls, and the ground was full of people.

Craters are wounds that cannot be healed, and lives have been harvested without dignity.

People stepped on the country that had been destroyed by artillery fire, looking at the scorched land. The destroyed towers. Everything returned to dust. Everything seemed so strange, everything was so quiet, and the quietness was scary.

.......