Lang Lang is one of theworld’s greatest concert pianists.His first contact with Western music was
when he was just 2 years old. He watched a cantoon in which a cat played afamous piece by Franz Liszt. From this experience, he decided he wanted to
learn to play the piano.When he was 3 and half years ago, he started pianolessons. 2 years later he won first place in a piano competition. This earlysuccess gave his father high hopes that Lang Lang would become a great pianist.
When Lang Lang was 9 years ago, his father quit his job and took him
to Beijing. They left everything behind, including his mother who had to work.
Lang Lang didn’t want to leave her behind, but his father insisted. His father
wanted him to study at famous Central Conservatory of Music.
When they moved to Beijing, they rented a flat in a poor area of thecity. During this time, Lang Lang practiced for several hours a day.He startedpracticing at 5 o’clock, which upset hisneighbors.They would oftenpound on his doorand ask him to stop practicing. They were so angry that he often feared thatthey would beat him up.
Lang Lang usually had piano lessons once a week to prepare for the
conservatory. Nearly 2000 students were applying for just 12 places at the Conservatory.
His lessons were expensive and very difficult, especially because of his piano
teacher. His music teacher didn’t like Lang Lang. He called his teacher “Professor
Angry” because she always gave him a hard time.
One afternoon, his teacher told him he had no talent and told him to
go home. Upon hearing the news, his father screamedand seemed to lose his mind. His father told him that everything was destroyed andthere was no reason to live. He ordered Lang Lang to jump off the 11th-floorbalcony. After this, Lang Langalmost went crazy. He didn’t want to play the piano anymore.
For several months, he neither played the piano nor spoke to his
father. Then some friends encouraged him to play apiece for them, and he realized his great love of the piano. For the next 19months, he practiced hard and his father encouraged him. Finally, when he wasten, he was accepted into the Conservatory with a fullscholarship.
In 1995, when he was 13 yearsold, he played music by Chopin in the Beijing Concert Hall. In that same yearhe won first place in an international competition for young musicians inJapan. When he was 15, he moved to the United States and began studies with thea famous pianist at Curtis institute. Since then his career has grown and he
has become a major star.One American music critic called him “the biggest,most exiting keyboard talent I have encountered in many a year of attendingpiano recitals.”
In 2010, Lang Lang signed a recarding contract for several milliondollars. In 2011, he performed at the White House for President Obama of the UnitedStates and Hu Jintao of China. With all of his success and fame, Lang Langtries to encourage others. He uses his fame to spread the popularity of classicalmusic and encourage young musicians. And in the end, Lang Lang and his fatherhave rebuilt their relationship. In hisautobiography,Mr Lang dedicated the book to his mother and father.
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