Chen Gang
Chen Gang (1935-) was born in Shanghai. He studied music with his father Chen Gexin since he was a child, and started studying piano with Hungarian pianist Valer at the age of ten. After the founding of the People's Republic of China, he joined the military art troupe and began composing music at the age of fifteen. He has written some a cappella choruses, piano intermezzos and other works. In 1955, he entered the Composition Department of Shanghai Conservatory of Music and studied under Ding Shande, Sang Tong and Soviet experts. After graduation, he stayed at the school to teach. When he was in his fourth year of college, he collaborated with He Zhanhao to write the violin concerto "Liang Shanbo and Zhu Yingtai" which was well-known at home and abroad. Later, he wrote violin works such as "Morning in Miaoling", "I Love My Motherland, Taiwan", "Sunshine Shines on Taxkorgan", "Qingshui River Love Song" and other instrumental works.
He Luting
He Luting (1903-1997) was born in Shaoyang County, Hunan. In 1923, he entered the art major of Changsha Yueyun School and studied music with Chen Xiaokong and others. During the Great Revolution, he participated in the Hunan Peasant Movement and the Guangzhou Uprising.
The "Riot Song" composed in 1928 was once circulated in the Hailufeng area. In 1931, he entered the Shanghai National Music College and learned composition theory from the famous musician Huang Zi, and piano from Chakharov and Aksakov. In 1934, his piano music "Shepherd Boy Piccolo" and "Lullaby" won the first prize in the "Piano Music with Chinese Flavor" competition held by Alexander Zilpin. After that, he entered the film industry, joined the Songwriters Association, and wrote music for left-wing progressive films such as "Children of the Storm", "Cross Street", and "Street Angel", among which the interludes such as "In Spring" and "Song Girl at the End of the World" were widely sung. After the "August 13th" incident, he joined the Shanghai National Rescue Drama Troupe and later went to Chongqing to teach in the music group of Yucai School. At this time, fresh-style songs such as "Guerrilla Song", "Kenchun Ni" and "On the Jialing River" were created. He went to the New Fourth Army in 1941 and to Yan'an in 1943 to found the Central Orchestra. During the War of Liberation, he continued to teach and create. The chorus "Prelude to the New World", the Yangge Opera "Liu Deshun Returns to the Troops", the orchestral sketches "Senji Dema", "The Party", etc. are all products of this period. After liberation, He Luting served as president of the Shanghai Conservatory of Music and vice chairman of the Chinese Musicians Association. He was mainly engaged in cultivating talents, but he still insisted on creating and wrote a large number of vocal works and film music.
Over the past half century, He Luting *** has created three cantata, 24 choruses, nearly 100 songs, six piano pieces, six orchestral pieces, more than ten film music and some Yangge opera music and instrumental solos, and author of "Selected Music Papers of He Luting"
Hua Yanjun
Hua Yanjun (1893-1950) is a folk musician. His nickname is A Bing, a native of Dongting, Wuxi, Jiangsu, and the son of Hua Qinghe, a local Taoist priest from Lei Zun Temple. Huaqing and Xuehai are good at playing various folk instruments, especially the pipa. Hua Yanjun learned music from his father since he was a child. He lost his mother at the age of four, suffered from eye disease at the age of twenty-one, and became blind at the age of thirty-five. In Wuxi City, he made a living by selling songs and playing various musical instruments on the streets, and suffered a lot of suffering in the world. Abing's instrumental performance was deeply welcomed by the masses, and his superb skills were valued by the local Taoist music circle as early as the age of eighteen. He has studied various folk music extensively, and is able to transcend the narrow teaching and imitation, and compose and perform various instrumental music based on his own feelings about real life. However, most of his works in his life have not been handed down to the world due to various reasons. Only the erhu pieces "Moon Reflected on Two Springs", "Listening to the Pines", and "Cold Spring Wind"; the pipa pieces "Big Waves Washing the Sand", "Zhaojun Leaving the Fortress", "Dragon Boat", etc. have been preserved and have become treasures in the palace of Chinese national music. . In 1950, six pieces of music he performed were recorded and compiled by the Institute of Ethnic Music of the Central Conservatory of Music into the "Collection of Abing Music" (published by the Music Press in 1956).
Lei Zhenbang
Lei Zhenbang (1916--1997) is a famous film music composer in my country, a national first-class composer, a former director of the Chinese Musicians Association, and a director of the Chinese Film Music Association. Director of the Artists Association, Vice President of the China Film and Music Association, and member of the Sixth National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference. Lei Zhenbang was born in Beijing in May 1916 and is a Manchu. Because his family life was relatively affluent, he was exposed to Peking Opera at a young age. When he was seven or eight years old, he could hum Peking Opera excerpts and play Peking Opera and some songs on the huqin.
In September 1928, Lei Zhenbang came to Shenyang Fengtian Public School to attend elementary school, and later entered Nanman Middle School. Under the influence of his music teacher, Lei Zhenbang learned to play the harmonica beautifully, joined the school harmonica team, and became the conductor of the team. He often changes some songs into harmonica ensembles and conducts performances.
In January 1939, Lei Zhenbang went to Japan to study. In Tokyo, he entered the preparatory course of the Composition Department of the Japan High School of Music. In less than half a year, Lei Zhenbang completed his preparatory major. The principal allowed him to skip a grade, and he became an undergraduate student in the composition department the next year.
In 1943, Lei Zhenbang returned to his motherland and worked as a music teacher at Peking Girls' Middle School and Huizhong Girls' Middle School. After the victory of the Anti-Japanese War, he organized an amateur symphony orchestra of more than fifty people after school.
Lei Zhenbang once adapted the ancient Chinese song "Elegy" into an orchestral piece for performance by an amateur symphony orchestra. This was Lei Zhenbang's first work publicly performed.
In June 1949, Lei Zhenbang came to the China Film Orchestra to engage in professional composition and entered the film industry.
In April 1955, Lei Zhenbang was transferred to Changchun Film Studio as a composer. After that, his creation entered a new stage. Over the past 30 years, he has composed more than 100 film songs. He insisted on going deep into life, learning from folk artists, and created a large number of music works with vivid images, beautiful lyrics, strong ethnic and local colors and exuding the fragrant fragrance of life, forming the unique artistic style of his works. For example, the music he composed for films reflecting the lives of ethnic minorities, such as "Five Golden Flowers", "Liu Sanjie", "Visitors from the Iceberg", "Jingpo Girl", "Lusheng Love Song", etc., all have the above musical characteristics.
In 1960, at the second Hundred Flowers Awards, he composed the music for the film "Liu Sanjie" and won the Best Music Award. Later, the music he composed for the films "Visitors from the Iceberg", "Ji Hongchang" and "The Little Generation" also won the first and second "Little Hundred Flowers Awards" held by Changchun Film Studio in 1964 and 1980 respectively. Won the Best Composition Award.
Over the past few decades, Lei Zhenbang has created mainly story film music: "Dong Cunrui", "Malan Flowers Bloom", "Lusheng Love Song", "Flowers Are Full", "Five Golden Flowers", "Golden Jade" Ji", "Daji and His Father", "Sanjie Liu", "Wan Muchun", "Visitors from the Iceberg", "Jingpo Girl", "War Map", "The Iron Giant", "The Reef", "Ji" "Hongchang", "Junior Generation", "Love Song of the Valley", "Answer You Tomorrow", "Spiritual Transformation", "Red, Orange, Yellow, Green, Blue and Purple", "The Great Devil of the East"... There are also 82 episodes of the TV series "Four Generations Under One Roof" "wait. Most of his works have been popular all over the country, widely sung and become people's favorite classic music works. He is worthy of being a famous film composer who is very popular among audiences in the Chinese film industry.
Li Huanzhi
Li Huanzhi (1919-) was originally from Jinjiang, Fujian, and was born in Hong Kong. In 1936, he entered the Shanghai Domestic Music College and studied under Xiao Youmei. After the outbreak of the Anti-Japanese War, he engaged in revolutionary song composition in Xiamen, Hong Kong and other places. In 1938, he studied in the Music Department of Yan'an Lu Xun Art Institute. After graduation, he stayed at the school to teach and edited "Ethnic Music". During the War of Liberation, he served as the director of the Music Department of the North China Lianda University College of Literature and Art. After the founding of the People's Republic of China, he has been active in the music front and is currently the chairman of the Chinese Musicians Association. Over the past 40 years, he has created a large number of musical works. In addition to the popular songs such as "March for Democracy and the Founding of the People's Republic of China", "March of New China Youth", "Socialism Is Good" and other songs, the main orchestral works include "Spring Festival Suite" and "First Symphony". ——Heroic Island", the guqin string song chorus "Su Wu", the guzheng concerto "Miluo River Fantasia", the one-act opera "Autumn in a Foreign Country", etc. He also edited the "Composition Tutorial" and wrote more than 300 papers, some of which Included in the book "Essays on Music Creation".