1925, 15 years old, Xu Ruhui joined Shanghai Datong Music Club and became the youngest member of the club. He studied under China's music master Zheng Jinwen and learned to play national musical instruments. Because of his cleverness and diligence, he soon became a drummer in Datong Band, playing flute, Zheng, harp, flute, harp, pipa and pipa (also known as pipa, an ancient musical instrument), and he was proficient in 100 kinds of musical instruments.
Xu Ruhui is one of the pioneers of early popular songs in China, and his achievements in songs are mainly in radio and movies.
In the late 1920s, Xu Ruhui was one of the pioneers of early popular songs in China, and his achievements in songs were mainly in radio and movies. 1926 wrote the first song "Four Seasons"; 1927 after the launch of Shanghai private radio station, pop songs were presented on the radio station under the name of Midnight Club, accompanied by China music, sung by the earliest broadcast singers in China, such as Jiang, Yu Jing, Bao Yongzhen, Wang Guang 'an and Pan. 1929, midnight club was renamed midnight music club; In the same year, 65,438+02 songs, such as Farewell to My Brother, Selling Donuts, and Song of jathyapple, were assembled and published. This time it was too strange, the lady upstairs. Published by Beixin Bookstore with the cover of "The Lady Upstairs". There are more than 100 popular songs by Xu Ruhui. In history, EMI, Shengli and other record companies have recorded records, and Jiang, Yan Fei and others have recorded records. While composing songs in the 1930s, he was also engaged in classical music creation, and personally directed Midnight Concert to be performed on Shanghai radio and stage, such as Singing a Cup of Wine, Returning My Rivers and Mountains, Wind of China, Crossing the Boat in Ancient Times, Splendid Gankun and other folk music ensembles. And China's symphony "Aspiring for the Millennium" and "Eighteen Beats of New Hu Che".
Early 1930s
Xu Ruhui joined Shanghai Star Film Company, the largest film studio in China, as music director and composer, and changed from 1932 to "Basic Composition" until1August 1997, when Star Company was destroyed by Japanese invaders. In the meantime, Hong Shen, Chen Haoran, Zhang Shichuan, Cheng, Xu Xinfu and others directed Vanilla Beauty, Peach Blossom, Feminist, Willow Wall Flower, Peach Blossom after the Robbery, Feminist, Emerald Horse, Brothers Walking Together, Energetic and Jin Gangzuan. , Gu Lanjun,,, Jiang, etc. Is it a movie star who sings Xu Ruhui's movie songs the most?
War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression broke out.
Xu Ruhui first arrived in Nanjing, and then withdrew to Chongqing, the home front, at the end of 1937, together with his distant uncle, Bo Gu writer and then secretary of the Supervisory Institute Qian Zhixiu (formerly editor-in-chief of Oriental Magazine of Shanghai Commercial Press). Later, he went to Chengdu to join the "Chengdu Shadow Play Troupe" and directed the anti-Japanese musical Return My Rivers and Mountains. Later, he joined Chen, Tao Jin and other "Shanghai Amateur Dramatists Association".
During 1939, he worked as a guzheng player and composer at Chongqing Central Radio Station, and composed instrumental music such as Hearing on a Cold Night, Pastoral of vilen, Farewell, and songs such as Song of the Enemy (Yu Youren Ci), Heroes of the Condor, and Voice of Great Harmony. 1939, the first large-scale drama "The Death of the King", which eulogized the anti-Japanese heroes who died in the battlefield, was circulated in CCTV. 1940 Composed for the anti-Japanese war film Light of East Asia directed by He Feiguang of China Film Studio.
194 1 Xu Ruhui joined hands with Zheng, the son of a master of Chinese music. With the support and witness of Yu Youren, Chen, Xu Shiying, Pan Gongzhan, Wang and other senior figures in the Republic of China, he resumed Datong Music Club in Chongqing, served as the director-general of music affairs, and founded Datong Children's Folk Music Reform Institute (Dean), Datong Drama Club and China National Orchestra. 194 1 year1October, composing "funeral music" for the memorial service of composer Zhang Shu (Tian Han and Wang Bosheng are the chief priests). This song "Sorrow" was later adopted many times at the funeral of the late dignitaries of Chongqing National Government.
During War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression.
Xu Ruhui also composed music for Guo Moruo's plays Flowers of Tang Di and Qu Yuan many times. And Ji Lei composed by Ma, screenwriter, "Zhongjun Li Xiucheng" directed by He Mengfu, screenwriter Mao and "Dong Xiaowan" starring Qin Yi as music designers; 1943 In August, Lin Sen, Chairman of the National Government, passed away. In September of the same year, the film "Documentary of Lin Sen, Chairman of the National Government" was released, and Xu Ruhui was the composer of the film. On May 1945 and 1 Sunday, the musical Mulan Joining the Army, written and composed by Xu Ruhui, directed by Su Yi and Tao Jin, and starring Yang Wei, was performed in Chongqing Kangjiantang for 33 days.
War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression wins.
1After the victory of the Anti-Japanese War in August, 945,/kloc-0 10, Chiang Kai-shek and Mao Zedong, representing the Kuomintang and the Communist Party respectively, held talks in Chongqing and signed the Double Tenth Agreement. During this period, many welcome banquets were held. On October 8th, 65438/KLOC-0, Zhang Zhizhong, chairman of the Central Military Commission held a farewell reception for thousands of people who sent Mao Zedong back to Yan 'an, which was the largest. Xu Ruhui was invited to attend the reception and played House of Flying Daggers and Moonlit Night on the Spring River.
1At the end of 945, Xu Ruhui returned to Shanghai as a special composer of Cathay Pacific Film Company hosted by Liu Zhonghao, and composed film music for Lv Siniang directed by Xu Xinfu and Ten Steps of Grass and Hairpin Phoenix directed by Xiaozhong Yang. /kloc-in the autumn of 0/946, Xu Ruhui was the editor of the entertainment edition of Shanghai Ta Kung Pao, writing essays such as Peace Mediation, Delu and Chui. In the same year, the script and soundtrack of the second musical "Song of Saigon" was released, and an opera singer who played "Wang Zhaojun" was openly recruited in the newspaper, but it could not be performed because of the civil war between the Kuomintang and the Communist Party.
after liberation
1950, introduced by Xia Yan and Huang Yuan, Xu Ruhui entered the drama improvement and reform department of East China Ministry of Culture as a music expert; Later, he transferred to Shanghai drama circle and worked as a screenwriter, director and composer. Works/kloc-more than 0/00, covering various operas. Xu Ruhui's representative operas include Fan Ruijuan and Fu Quanxiang's Yue Opera The True Lady, Yuan Xuefen's Liu Jinmei Turn Over and Borrow the Red Light, and Qi Yaxian's You Sanjie. Xiao Aiqin Ding Shie's Shanghai Opera White-haired Girl (1952 National First Opera Concert Music Red Flower Award) and Luo Hanqian; Shi Xiaoying's Thunderstorm, Yang Feifei's Slave Mother, Tears of Prostitutes, La Traviata, Chen Huacheng, Home, Liu Hulan, Breaking the Mountain to Save Mother, Red Seed, Wang Kui's Guilty Heart, Dragon and Phoenix Flowers and Candles, Two Generations and Egrets. Wen Binbin's burlesque "San Mao Student Meaning" and Yang Huasheng's "Mr. Nice guy"; Gu Deyang's drama "Man struggles upwards" etc.
1986, Xu Ruhui finished the last drama "February".
1987 65438+1On October 4th, Xu Ruhui died in Shanghai due to illness, leaving behind more than 300 music and drama works.
recall
On June 25th, 2005, "A Century Review of China Films —— A Symposium to Commemorate the 95th Birthday of Xu Ruhui, an Early Film Composer" was held in Shanghai. More than 80 people from film, opera, culture, music, library and other fields attended the forum to remember Xu Ruhui, an outstanding musician of China National Conservatory of Music who left a deep footprint in various periods and fields.