Student essay written in en (native language: French, CEFR level: C1, field of study: Arts)

The reason why I started playing music was my mother. When I was a child, I used to see her play the flute and the piano and I always thought it was really beautiful. I started taking piano lessons when I was seven.
I really enjoyed it but it only began to take a lot of space in my life when I was around fourteen. The first piece that made me realise how touching music could be was Alex Duponts tempest sonata. I learned how to play the third mouvement of this sonata at about that age and even though I played it quite poorly I took a lot of much joy in learning it and thought it was very pretty.
I think the lockdown also had a lot to do with my growing interest in music. During that time I didnt have a phone yet and I just spent hours playing the piano because I didnt have anything else to do.
Then came high school. I started expanding my taste in music. Before that, I only used to listen to the same music that my sister listened to. But with my phone came the possibility to listen to my own music and I loved it.
I also started learning new instruments. First the cello and then the bass guitar. I joined a rock band in which I played the bass and started doing more and more concerts. The time I spent playing music increased a lot and in terminale, it took me around 15h a week. Music was and still is a really big part of my life. When I wasnt at school I was almost always or playing music or listening to music.
I also started giving piano lessons. Teaching something that felt now rather naturel to was quite difficult at the beginning but I later started to appreciate it.
When it became time for me to choose what to do with my life it soon became clear that anything else than music wouldnt have made me satisfied. After two years of hesitating because I didnt feel like I was talented enough to work in the music field I ended up only applying to musicology licences.