Wang Luobin (1913-1996), Chinese composer. His original name was Rong Ting and his given name was Luobin. He was born in an ordinary working family in Beijing on December 28, 1913. He entered Beijing's "Eight Banners Higher Primary School" at the age of 7 and was admitted to Luhe Middle School in Tong County, Beijing at the age of 12. In 1931, he was recommended to He studied in the Art Department of Beijing Normal University. In 1934, his mother died of illness and his family life became difficult, so he dropped out of the Art Department of Beijing Normal University. After the July 7th Incident, Beijing fell. He went south to join the Eighth Route Army and changed his name to Wang Luobin. In 1938, he composed more than 30 songs. In the same year, he was introduced by Wu Xiuquan, director of the Xi'an Office of the Eighth Route Army, and joined the Northwest Anti-Japanese War Theater Troupe and toured various places for seven months. From 1939 to 1941, Wang Luobin taught in Qinghai Islamic Middle School. During this period, he often went deep into the folk to collect folk customs, participated in the film crew of Zheng Junli's "Long Live the Motherland" and toured various places. He created "In That Distant Place" and "The Coachman" , "The Girl of Daban City", "Kangding Love Song" and other beautiful and widely circulated folk songs. In 1941, Wang Luobin was arrested by Kuomintang agents for promoting anti-Japanese aggression and was imprisoned in Lanzhou Shagou Prison for a year. In September 1949, he joined the Chinese People's Liberation Army and was appointed deputy section chief of the Literature and Art Section of the Propaganda Department of the First Corps. In January 1950, he was appointed as the section chief of the Literature and Art Section of the Xinjiang Military Region, and translated and published the "Collection of Latest Soviet Songs". In May 1950, Wang Luobin took leave to visit relatives in Xining and took his family to Lanzhou to work. Because his family difficulties could not be solved, he wrote to the Political Department of the Xinjiang Military Region asking to resign. In November 1950, he returned to Beijing with his family and taught at Beijing No. 8 Middle School. He was elected as a member of the Standing Committee of the Beijing Federation of Music and Education. In June 1951, at the request of the Xinjiang Military Region, Wang Luobin was arrested by the Beijing Municipal Public Security Bureau. His wife was frightened and became bedridden, leaving behind three uncared-for sons. In February 1952, the Xinjiang Military Region's Military Justice Division sentenced him to two years of hard labor for spreading rumors and failing to return after long-term leave. During his service, he completed the composition of the drama "Harvest" and composed a number of songs. After his release in August 1954, he was assigned to work as a teacher in the Art Troupe of the Southern Xinjiang Military Region. In April 1960, Wang Luobin was imprisoned in Urumqi No. 1 Prison for 15 years due to historical issues. In prison, Wang Luobin used amazing perseverance to create a large number of musical works under extremely difficult conditions, including the "Communist Manifesto" song suite, the "Chairman Mao Quotations" suite and 8 songs written in Chinese and English. song etc.

In May 1975, he was released after serving his sentence, when he was 62 years old. In April 1979, at the request of Xiao Hua, political commissar of the Lanzhou Military Region, Wang Luobin went to the Lanzhou Military Region Combat Song and Dance Ensemble to help work, where he composed the large-scale opera "The Bloody Necklace". The program participated in the 30th anniversary of the founding of the People's Republic of China and won second place in the art performance. award. On November 29, 1979, the Urumqi Military Region Military Court revoked the verdict against him in 1961, and the Xinjiang Military Region held a rehabilitation meeting for Wang Luobin on July 6, 1981. The following month, "Xinjiang Art" published the article "Composing a New Song from Today" by Xinhua News Agency reporter Zhao Quanzhang. This was the first article reported by a news agency on Wang Luobin after he was released from prison. Since then, Wang Luobin's songs have been published one after another in the form of song collections. His songs have been frequently performed in concerts and have been widely circulated at home and abroad. He himself is revered as the "King of Northwest Singers", "Father of Folk Song".

Wang Luobin’s songs are beautiful and extended, deeply loved by the masses and full of national flavor. He composed "Kangding Love Song", "Half Moon Climbs Up", "Mayila", "In That Far Place", "Alam Khan", "Yakxi", "The Girl from Daban City", "Salam Chairman Mao" and other songs are well-known and known to everyone in China, and many of these songs have been included in university vocal music textbooks.

Wang Luobin's works are extremely rich, with 741 songs collected into the volume alone. In addition, he also composed 8 large-scale operas and a large number of other musical works, and published 10 songbooks. What is even more valuable and awe-inspiring is his professionalism that continues to live and create.

Among the songs he published, 63 were composed during the 15 years he was imprisoned, and 82 were composed after he was 80 years old. His last two songs were composed when he was admitted to Urumqi General Hospital of Lanzhou Military Region for treatment on January 6, 1996. after. On March 14, 1996, Wang Luobin died of gallbladder cancer at the age of 83. Wang Luobin once formulated a 500-year artistic life plan, and said: "A young man asked me, a person can only live 100 years, how can we make a 500-year plan? I explained that this is an artistic life plan, to write the best Let everyone sing this song for 500 years." It can be said that this is exactly what Wang Luobin has been working hard to achieve throughout his life.