94 The Sword (1/2)

Chapter 94: The Sword

Translator: Kris_LiuEditor: Vermillion

At the end of the class, Victor said to his students, ”I know many of you are hard-working and some of you have been studying canon on your own for a while. I’d like to see every one of you try to write a piece of canon to facilitate your understanding toward this compositional technique.”

While the other students were pretty excited about it, Lucien remained silent with his own thoughts. Seeing that, Victor said to Lucien, ”Lucien, although you’re indeed very talented, don’t underestimate canon. Simple as it seems to be, an outstanding piece of cannon can still become a masterpiece that lasts for generations, just like Mr. Hersey’s Canon in D. And practicing cannon is very beneficial to a student like you who don’t have a very solid music foundation.”

Victor was often mindful of giving Lucien, the young genius, some proper ”warning” to avoid his possible arrogance, which was very common among musicians who became famous at an early age, and unfortunately most of them ended up wasting their talent and lost their reputation very quickly.

Not until Victor started to talk to him did Lucien come to himself. He nodded and explained, ”Thank you, Mr. Victor. I understand how important a solid foundation is and I’ll definitely go all out to work on my canon.”

”Good. Then what were you thinking about?” asked Victor.

”When you were introducing Mr. Hersey’s Canon in D, I was thinking that I could probably recompose this classic piece of work and turn it into a piano concerto. Maybe a piano concerto version of Canon in D will be quite unique.”

”Interesting idea, Lucien.” Victor touched his chin a bit when he was thinking, ”The challenging part is that Mr. Hersey’s Canon is composed of very short music bars, thus it’s hard to make considerable changes within it.”

”Do you think it’s doable, Mr, Victor?” asked Lucien with expectation.

”Well… Canon in D was recomposed into a few different versions before, so I’d say a piano concerto version is definitely something to look forward to.” Victor confirmed Lucien’s idea and smiled.

After the class, when the students were heading toward the practicing rooms, Felicia caught up with Lucien and asked him in a low voice with expectation, ”Are you gonna play the piano concerto version of Canon in D on my birthday party next month?”

Canon was not a very demanding nor complicated technique. She did not think it would take Lucien too long to do it.

Lucien was suddenly inspired, then he smiled, ”Felicia, I won’t forget the help you offered me. I’ll play the piano on your birthday party, but not a canon. I’ll compose a piece of serenade for you.”

”Really!” That was a big surprise for Felicia.The fact that the personal music consultant of the princess would write a piece of serenade specially for her was totally beyond her expectation.

”Yes, but it won’t be a very complete one since the time is quite limited. It’s probably only an opusculum.”

”You’re so great, Lucien!” Felicia was excited but also feeling a bit concerned, ”But you only have a month… If the work is not good enough, that might damage your reputation.”

Although composing a piece of opusculum within a month was not rare, Felicia still worried about Lucien. Since Lucien was drawing so much attention right now after the concert, many people who envied his talent were watching him like vicious beasts at night, waiting for any possible chance to launch their attack and to give this young musician a hard time.

”A piece of serenade shouldn’t be a problem.” Lucien seemed to be quite confident. And Lucien’s confidence came from the fact that he already found a very classic piece of serenade in his spirit library which resembled no music work in this world.

In order to avoid being too suspicious, Lucien decided only to do an opusculum on the birthday party.

”Alright… I’m looking forward to your serenade,” said Felicia with both expectation and concern.