A conductor who is all about music - Seiji Ozawa
Seiji Ozawa, India's Zubin Mehta and Singapore's Zhu Hui are listed as one of the "Three Great Famous Oriental Famous People" "Finger"
The three most famous "finger fingers" in the world, Mingxi, Karajan and Bernstein, have all been Ozawa's teachers
Ozawa's whole body is full of music
In 1999, the Chinese National Symphony Orchestra entered the Golden Hall in Vienna, known as the Temple of World Music, for the first time. Together with the traditional Vienna New Year Concert, it bid farewell to the old and ushered in the new for Europe. Eastern music entered Europe with its unique New Year flavor. human life. Tonight's Vienna New Year's Concert will welcome another oriental conductor - Japanese conductor Seiji Ozawa.
Seiji Ozawa, India’s Zubin Mehta, and Singapore’s Zhu Hui are listed as one of the “Three Famous Oriental Famous Players”. Their ability to conduct the symphony orchestra, which has always been dominated by Westerners, truly belongs to Asia. Human pride.
On September 1, 1935, Ozawa was born in Shenyang, China. His family of six made a living from the dental clinic run by his father. He was the third of four children. Today, the house where he was born has become a major local attraction with a sign saying "The birthplace of the world-famous conductor Seiji Ozawa." In 1941, affected by the war, his father's business was unsustainable, and his overseas medical career had to come to an end. The family returned to China. At that time, there was an accordion in the few homes. It was Ozawa's most beloved thing, and it later became his entry point. The first musical instrument in the world of music. Soon, Ozawa's interest in music further expanded. At the age of 7, he studied with the famous pianist Feng Zengden. Within a few years, he played all Bach's piano suites. Once, the elementary school where he attended held a talent show, and his song "Dedicated to Alice" was a great success. This performance can also be regarded as the artist's first stage appearance in his life.
His parents recognized his talent in music and sent him to the newly founded music class affiliated with Tokyo Toho Academy in 1951 to study composition. There, Ozawa met the most important people in his music career. His first mentor, Hideo Saito. In his first year of school, the French conductor Munchy led the Boston Symphony Orchestra to Japan for a performance. Ozawa was so excited after watching the performance that he determined to become a conductor and changed his studies to conducting.
Conquered the music scene with his fingers
In 1959, Ozawa embarked on the road to study in Europe and arrived in Paris. There, he studied conducting while working during the day, and slept on a park bench at night. Life was very difficult. In this year, he was very lucky to catch up with the Besan?on International Music Conductor Competition in September, and the result was an astonishing success, taking the first place. At that time, Mingxi, one of the judges of the competition, took a fancy to his conducting talent and immediately invited him to study in his Boston Symphony Orchestra. The next year, Ozawa came to the United States as scheduled and was recommended by Mingxi to participate in the Tanglewood Summer Music Festival Conducting Performance. He won the first prize again. This time, Mingxi accepted this protégé without hesitation. The next year, he went to Berlin to look for famous teachers, where he won the first place in the "Karajan International Conducting Competition" and was lucky enough to be accepted as Karajan's disciple. In 1961, he took on the conductor of the Berlin Symphony Orchestra. "Teacher Karajan advocated the arbitrariness of the baton," Ozawa recalled. "I was conducting at the front desk, and he was always staring at me from behind. When he saw me waving the baton very hard, he corrected me and said, your action is too much. , the hand movements should be casual, like flowing water, until your energy is exhausted."
Ozawa went to the United States to participate in the Berkshire Music Festival, and he still won the first prize as a conductor. , and began a busy conducting career. In 1961, Ozawa soon came to the United States to study with Bernstein and was introduced to join the New York Philharmonic Orchestra as deputy conductor. So far, Münchy, Karajan and Bernstein, the three most famous figures in the world, have all been his teachers. After getting to know these big-name conductors, he often asked himself: Why can't Ozawa reach this height? But Bernstein made it clear: This day may not be long. Sure enough, after successively serving as conductor of the New York Philharmonic Orchestra and Toronto Symphony Orchestra, in 1965, Ozawa began to release his own album and gradually became famous overseas.
"People often ask me what a conductor does. Now I can tell him that a conductor is like a traffic policeman, mobilizing the sounds of seventy or eighty musicians in order to faithfully turn the symbols on the score into the composer's Music." Just like his vivid metaphor, Ozawa is like an outstanding international policeman, conducting one world-class orchestra after another. When it comes to his conducting art, people in the industry highly admire it, saying that Ozawa's whole body is filled with music. His greatest characteristic is that he is good at inspiring and motivating musicians with his musical accomplishment and artistic emotions. The style, speed, rhythm and tone of each work are mastered meticulously. The free, generous, delicate and bold movements are full of musical imagery. Amazing memory and admirable musical charm always burst out from the fingers. , the colorful fingers are very provocative and energetic, thus truly expressing the true meaning of the work and the artistic conception of the music. Ozawa has undisputedly conquered the international music scene with his fingers.