Following last year’s performance of Twelve Equal Temperaments (Nos. 1 to 12 in Volume 1), which caused quite a sensation, young pianist Guo Zhiheng continued to give a lecture on Twelve Equal Temperaments to music fans at the Jiangsu Grand Theater Concert Hall on January 13, attracting more than a thousand people. The audience had a wonderful "Bach time" together.
"The Well-Tempered Clavier" is a complete discussion of polyphony, harmony, tonality and counterpoint. It is not only the highest masterpiece among Bach's keyboard works, but also the foundation for all music learning and research. Guo Zhiheng said that the last concert introduced everyone to how to listen to the melody and find the theme. This time, he wanted to let everyone experience the structural excellence of the Equal Temperament in a deeper way. At the
concert, Guo Zhiheng played and explained the thirteenth to twenty-fourth preludes and fugues in the first volume, analyzing the rationality and classical beauty of Bach's works.
When talking about the Fourteenth Fugue, Guo Zhiheng said that Bach liked to use notes and numbers to represent himself. In most cases, he directly used the note names of b-a-c-h as the motive fragments in his works, but This is not enough, he also needs fancy signatures. The four sounds b-a-c-h can be arranged in 16 different ways and can appear in different tones. In the Fourteenth Fugue, Bach's name appears twice in the arrangement a-b-c-h. "Of course, the number fourteen also has a lot of origins. The letter b is the second letter in the German alphabet, the letter a is the first letter in the German alphabet, c and h are the third letters in the German alphabet respectively. and the 8th letter. 2+1+3+8=14, so 14 became a number representing Bach’s name. Of course Bach would not miss this opportunity to sign the theme of the Fourteenth Fugue.”
After the last piece of the concert (No. 24) Prelude and Fugue in B minor, Guo Zhiheng played the first Prelude in C major again. This was almost a performance art, which made the whole concert and the expression of the work form a perfect closed loop.
"The Well-Tempered Piano Collection" has a total of 48 preludes and fugues in two volumes. Each volume has 24 preludes and fugues, using 24 major and minor keys. Guo Zhiheng explained the reason why he played like this, "When the C note appeared for the second time in the last song, it took us back to the first note of the Well-Tempered Prelude in C major in the first volume, just like we After a journey, we find ourselves back where we started from. Bach’s Equal Temperament moves upwards from the starting C key through 12 tones of major and minor, and finally returns to C major. This reflects Bach’s composition. We think in a circular way. When the music reaches the last chord, we feel that we have reached eternity."
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The reporter saw it at the performance and came to watch the concert There are many children and parents who are learning piano in the audience. There are even piano children who come to "listen to the lesson" with the entire sheet of music. There were also art majors from Nanjing University, Southeast University, Nanjing Normal University, Nanjing Special Education Demonstration College and other universities who came to listen. Many students felt that they felt like listening to a "reference literature" and it was very rewarding.
Ms. Fan, a professional audience engaged in piano education, told reporters that Dr. Guo Zhiheng's "Playing and Talking about Twelve Equal Temperament" series has done a very good job of popularizing the works of the Baroque period, and has brought together the entire Twelve Equal Temperament from a professional perspective. The work was analyzed, "I felt like I had written a very large doctoral thesis, breaking down for us how each work is performed, what the harmonic structure is like, what the techniques are like, and how it can be Let us wander through Bach's works, which will help the public understand the works of this Baroque period in a simple and easy-to-understand way."
Guo Zhiheng is a young pianist who came out of Nanjing, Jiangsu Province. He is currently a Juliet known as the "Harvard" in the music industry. PhD candidate at the Asian Conservatory of Music. He holds many concerts every year and is good at performing works by composers of different styles. His repertoire so far includes more than 260 piano solo pieces and more than 20 piano concertos.
Yangtze Evening News/Ziniu News reporter Kong Xiaoping
(Source: Yangtze Evening News)
