There is not much to say about the concert. Anyway, it felt quite solemn and rhythmic.
It's over.
This is Li Yu's understanding of symphony, which is not as good as his understanding of Peking Opera.
After it was over, Archduke Ferdinand asked for Li Yu's address, and he would transport the piano and violin directly to the capital.
Li Yu couldn't tell the difference between the Austrian Bösendorfer piano and the German Steinway piano endorsed by Lang Lang later. He only knew that it was very expensive.
Many top-quality pianos are made in Germany and Austria.
The Austrian Bösendorfer piano was quite famous at this time, because it was recognized by the Austrian royal family and was the "Queen Piano Manufacturer". The number of products produced was not very large, and it became an important cultural export product of Austria.
It is this piano that is used in many concerts in Vienna. With the aura of Vienna as the capital of music, the price is naturally very impressive.
In later generations, there will often be hundreds of thousands, millions, or even tens of millions.
Art is indeed for rich people...
As an art novice, Li Yu thought that the music played by such an expensive piano must have a sound full of money.
But even if he brought such a good piano to the capital, Li Yu would have no chance to learn it, let alone learn it.
Just thinking about it again, Planck and Boltzmann are both good piano players, and Einstein played the violin very well. Does it mean that if you want to be a big scientist, you need to have some musical talent?
But Li Yu really doesn’t understand Western instruments, so he should go back and find a teacher to learn traditional orchestral instruments, so that when he sits with the big guys and talks about music later, he will be somewhat different.
At that time, Poulenc played Beethoven's Moonlight Sonata on the piano, and Einstein played Mozart's Violin Concerto on the violin. Wouldn't he suddenly burst into tears with his "Moon Reflecting on Two Springs"?
How about all kinds of musical instruments, and the suona is the king? Either ascending to heaven, or worshiping in the hall, and the whole play ends when the suona sounds.
No, it’s too impactful! And it’s too difficult. The simplest cucurbit flute is easier to get started with. With its excellent tone, you can play the tune in no time.
When Li Yu was thinking wildly, he had already walked out of the Vienna State Opera House.
When returning, Lu Bicheng asked: "Why did Crown Prince Ferdinand come here by himself? Don't European nobles usually bring their wives with them when attending formal occasions?"
Li Yu said: "Do you still remember the Cinderella story you saw when you were translating European fairy tales?"
Lu Bicheng nodded: "Remember, Cinderella was an ordinary girl who was eventually fell in love with the prince. The two went through many hardships and finally lived a happy life together."
"Fairy tales are all lies," Li Yu said with a smile. "Archduke Ferdinand's wife Sophia was the daughter of a declining nobleman and became a maid in Archduke Ferdinand's house. Archduke Ferdinand really loved her.
He even wanted to marry her despite the opposition of the entire royal family. He also announced in front of all the Habsburg dignitaries that 'he and Sofia's descendants, as well as their descendants, will permanently give up the right to inherit the throne of the Austro-Hungarian Empire.'"
Lu Bicheng was moved and said: "He is such an infatuated person. He is willing to give up the status that many people dream of for the sake of love."
Li Yu said: "As for the price, as you can see, even if Sophia marries a prince, she cannot enjoy the treatment of a princess. She cannot attend state banquets, ride horses in royal parades with her husband, Archduke Ferdinand, or even ride in royal parades with her husband Archduke Ferdinand.
She was allowed to sit in a box with Archduke Ferdinand in public. Sofia was only allowed to accompany the Archduke unless he was appearing as a soldier."
This was the case later in the Sarajevo incident.
Perhaps to make up for his wife, Archduke Ferdinand inspected the exercise troops as a military commander at the time, so Sofia could accompany him to enjoy this honor and celebrate their 14th wedding anniversary.
There is no need to say more about what happened after that.
It sounds really like the story of Cinderella and the Prince. This is what women can't stand the most. Lu Bicheng was so moved that she burst into tears.
She still doesn’t know that there will be a more powerful king in Britain in the future, a majestic king who gave up the British throne for a widow!
That was the time that made women all over the world go crazy.
Lu Bicheng wiped her tears and said, "Does the story of Cinderella have to be false?"
Li Yu comforted and said: "She has already made up her mind. Do you think in thousands of years of history, how many women have been really happy after entering the palace? Once entering the palace, freedom and love are sometimes contradictory.
unless……"
Lu Bicheng asked: "Unless what?"
"Unless you give up one of them, you will gain something if you give up. What's wrong with being an ordinary person?" Li Yu said with a smile.
Lu Bicheng nodded: "Just like the big story you told about Journey to the West, the gods may not be that good."
Li Yu said: "And Austria not only has Sofia, but also the more famous Princess Sissi, who is the former queen of the current Austrian emperor."
Li Yu told her about Princess Sissi again. She was so famous that she was basically the most famous queen among the royal families of various countries in modern times.
She can also be said to be the most beautiful queen. After all, even in the political arena, beauty is still her trump card.
Later, Germany and Austria made the very famous movie "Sissi" trilogy, in which Romy Schneider's performance can be regarded as a classic.
Princess Sissi has not received strict court education since she was a child. She is free and unrestrained. She is not so adapted to the royal life with complicated court etiquette. She feels a bit like a little swallow, but the prince seems to like this.
It's just that Princess Sissi did not live a very happy life in the Austrian royal family. She suffered from depression after the death of her eldest daughter, and later her own son committed suicide in love (so many similar things happened to the Austrian royal family).
Princess Sissi was so shocked that she left the palace to travel around. As a result, she was assassinated by an Italian assassin in Geneva.
Lu Bicheng was a little shocked after hearing this, and sighed: "Fairy tales are indeed fairy tales, just like a beautiful dream weaved out, which will be easily broken when it encounters the edges and corners of reality."
Li Yu encouraged: "But if there are no more beautiful dreams, many people will probably be even more miserable."
Lu Bicheng was not the girl who was tortured by the Mary Sue TV series in later generations. She immediately cheered up: "That's right! Although the story of the royal family is eye-catching, it is only a very small part of the world."
After returning to the Wittgenstein family's castle, Lu Bicheng hurried back to her room to change clothes.
This kind of Western girdle is not easy to put on and take off, so I can only call for Konoe Aki to come over and help: "Quick, I'm going to die from suffocation!"
Konoe Aki quickly untied her, "Don't wrap her up so tightly if she's so big."
"You are not young, and Mrs. Karl dressed it for me. I don't understand it at all," Lu Bicheng took a few breaths and continued, "It's really painful to wear these clothes. I can only walk in small steps, and I can't do any strenuous exercise."
Take a big breath. Anyway, I really don’t want to wear it anymore, just like our foot binding, it’s a kind of torture on women!”
Konoe Akiyuki held the corset and said quietly: "I would really like to have the opportunity to wear it once."
Lu Bicheng didn't know what Konoe Aki meant, so he pulled her to sit next to her, "Good sister, let me tell you what I saw and heard today. Although Li Yu and I went to the opera house once before, this time
The National Opera House is so grand, and there are many big names present..."
Konoe Akira sat aside and listened with a serious smile. To her, it was a naked show off.
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Li Yu stayed in Vienna for a few more days, discussed the import of enamel equipment with the Wittgenstein family, and paid to recruit several skilled workers.
Skilled workers are basically Jews, and they are easier to recruit. After all, there is no country. As long as they can make money, they will be the same wherever they go.
Li Yu plans to slowly cultivate national enterprises through these relatively simple but not so simple industries and develop them well in the next golden decade.
The natural next step was to go to Berlin, but on the way Li Yu planned to make a detour to the Patent Office in Bern, Switzerland, to work with Einstein to perfect the thesis, mainly the mathematics part.
Regardless of whether the special theory of relativity has reached later generations, there are some things that high school students can easily understand. It may seem like nothing, but the rigorous mathematical derivation is actually very complicated.
There are many such examples, such as Kepler's conjecture which sounds very "naive".
As early as three hundred years ago, for example, Kepler proposed the densest stacking problem. Simply put, it is how to place cannonballs or oranges in the densest stack.
Not to mention mathematicians, any fruit stall owner knows how to arrange them layer by layer.
There is a professional terminology for this method in mathematics. You must have heard it when you studied chemistry: hexagonal closest packing and face-centered cubic packing. Many metal crystals have this structure.
Kepler's conjecture is whether hexagonal closest packing and face-centered cubic packing are the densest arrangements.
It seems intuitively similar, but it is not easy to prove mathematically.
For three hundred years, many great mathematicians have been helpless in comparison. Even among the 23 mathematical problems raised by Hilbert in 1900, there was Kepler's conjecture (of course Hilbert extended it to n dimensions)!
This seemingly simple and somewhat "boring" mathematical problem is not even a human proof.
More than a hundred years later, it took Hales, an American mathematician, more than ten years to complete the formal proof using a computer in 2015.
Anyway, there is a big gap between popular science and real mathematics, physics and chemistry.
In addition, going to see Einstein is not just about researching a paper, but also a "business": applying for a patent.
During his free time in Austria these days, Li Yu came up with some patents for automobiles and prepared to apply for them together.
Since you want to be an invisible behind-the-scenes boss like Bosch, you must have enough patents.
And since the last time he asked Einstein to review a patent, Li Yu has fallen deeply in love with this feeling. Haha, it’s so enjoyable!