他是天生的侏儒,终生100厘米.
7岁那年,他看了一场钢琴音乐会,着迷到神魂颠倒黑白,父亲就买来一架钢琴.他要别人抱着上下钢琴座,父亲又在钢琴上安装了一个特殊的辅助器来控制踏板,使他的脚容易牵动钢琴踏板.
痴狂地练了五年.
13岁,他第一次演出时,先站在台前最接近观众的地方站了有三分钟.最后他笑着问:“都看够了吧？”满场都会意地笑了,他才回位,演奏。
观众大惊,尔后掌声雷动。
有人问他为什么要先站三分钟,他说:“许多人是好奇我的身材才来的,先让他们看够，才能细听我的演奏，才能看到我灵魂的高度。”
在不断拔高灵魂高度的同时,他还成了演唱家,出了自己的唱片。16岁,他成了美国爵士乐团的台柱，每天练琴的时间超过8小时,每年的独奏音乐会超过180场时,而所有人都不再对他特身材好奇了,不少人都是闭目倾听，让自己的灵魂仰望“高魂”！
20，他的专辑《乐曲》，使他一夜成为“巨星”，纽约,伦敦,米兰,东京,巴黎……每到一处，他灵魂的高度，皆令举成仰望！
30岁,他每天练琴的时间超过11小时,每年的独奏音乐会超过30场时,有人问:“你的灵魂还不够高吗？”他说：“身材属于父母,是有限的,灵魂属于自己，是无限！”
1999年1月,他因肺炎病逝于纽。36岁的他,倒下的躯体还是100厘米，在音乐王国，在许多人心中,他是“不朽的巨人”。
他就是法国的贝楚齐亚尼，世界钢琴史上最著名的侏儒。他最后一句话：“如果我真的高大，那是矮小成全的！”
译文:
The Height ofSoul
The Height of Soul
He was a born dwarf with the height of 100 centimeters for life.
A piano concert exerted a peculiar fascination for him when he was at 7.Thus, his father bought a piano for him.He couldn’t help but ask another people to get him on and off the piano stool so that his father assembled a special supplemental instrument to control the pedal in order to assist his feet to attach the pedal with ease.
Practising irrationally for complete five years.
He stood in the front of stage nearest speculators for entire three minutes at the first show before playing.At last, he said with a smile on his face:“Are you all satisfied?”All the speculators on the scene smiled with satisfaction.Then he came back to the seat and played.
The speculators were astonished and applaused heavily.
Someone asked him the reason why standing for three minutes before playing.He responsed that a great many people were just so curious about his figure that came to the show,only when they had seen enough did they listen for his playing and see his height of soul.
While raising his height of soul ,he became a singer to set out his own albums at the same time. At the age of 16,he had become the leading member of American Jazz Bank.His practising time exceeded 8 hours every day and his solo concerts were more than 180 times. All prefered to listen with their eyes close to allow the soul of their own to overlook the heightest soul rather than be curious about his figure.
At the age of 20,Music, one piece of his albums rose him to fame overnight.He won love and respect to everyone where he had playde such as New York ,Lundon,Milan,Tokey,Paris .
At 30,his practisingtime exceeded 11 hours everyday and his solo concerts were more than 30 times.Someone asked whether he hadn’t been tall enough,he responded calmly that his parents had the possesion of his limited figure,but his soul belonged to himself,infinitely.
He died of pneumonia in New York in January of 1999.His body remained 100centimetres when he passed away at 36,but in many people’s heart,he is a immortal giant.
His name was ,a French ,the distinguished dwarf in the history of piano.His last words before dying were: I’d pay tribute to my shortage if I am really a giant.