On the evening of November 23, 1930, at the Shanghai Daguangming Cinema, Italian musician Mario Paci (1878-1946) conducted the Shanghai Symphony Orchestra of the Ministry of Industry and A band composed of foreigners) played Huang Zi's symphonic overture "Nostalgia". This move makes Chinese musicians deeply proud and greatly stimulates their enthusiasm for creating new music.

In November 1933, seven movements from the oratorio "Song of Everlasting Sorrow" (written by Wei Hanzhang) written by Huang Zi between 1932 and 1933 were premiered at a music college student concert: 1. "The Immortal" "Music is heard everywhere", 2. "Eternal Life Palace on July 7th", 3. "Yuyang Ji stirs the ground to come", 5. "Six armies are helpless if they don't send out", 6. "Death in front of the horse with graceful eyebrows", 8 , "The mountain is in the ethereal space", 10. "This hatred lasts forever". Although the remaining three movements have not yet been composed, the seven completed movements basically summarize the main plot of Bai Juyi's original poem and are quite complete artistically. "Song of Everlasting Regret" is China's earliest oratorio. The work not only satirizes the non-resistance of the Kuomintang ruling group, such as "Dancing sleeves are turned up, no matter what the state is. I only love beautiful women and wine, not the country." The palace romance is transformed into a love tragedy. Some movements of this work were published as sheet music and records before Huang Zi's lifetime. In May 1943, in commemoration of the fifth anniversary of Huang Zi's death, the Chinese Music Research Society in Chongqing published the "Special Issue of Huang Zi's Posthumous Work - "Song of Everlasting Sorrow"" for the first time in Volume 2, Issue 1 of Music Monthly. In 1957, Shanghai Music Publishing House officially published Huang Zi's "Song of Everlasting Sorrow". Huang Zi is a famous modern composer and music theorist in my country. He is the first music educator to systematically and comprehensively teach modern European and American professional composition theories to domestic students, and has the ambition to establish a Chinese national music school. His graduation work from studying in the United States, the orchestral overture "Nostalgia", is my country's first symphonic music work and the earliest Chinese symphony work performed abroad. The opening music "Urban Scenery Fantasia" he wrote for the left-wing progressive film "Urban Scenery" is the first professional-level opening music in my country. His "Anti-Enemy Song" and "The Flag is Flying" are my country's two earliest anti-Japanese and national salvation choral songs. His "Song of Everlasting Sorrow" is the earliest oratorio in my country. He was also the first music professor to comprehensively and systematically teach modern Western composition theory, and the first music professor to write title songs for progressive films. In addition, he founded China's earliest music weekly and served as chief editor, and initiated and organized China's first symphony orchestra composed entirely of Chinese performers, the Shanghai Philharmonic Orchestra.

In his lifetime, he left 94 musical works in various genres including symphony, chamber music, piano polyphony, oratorio, chorus, solo, and textbook songs; 15 articles involved theoretical creation. , criticism, appreciation, writers, history and other aspects of music treatises; 56 texts on music knowledge; 3 unfinished music manuscripts. He also founded music societies and edited music magazines, music supplements, music teaching materials, and music textbooks, organized music programs for radio stations, and wrote music broadcast manuscripts. Huang Zi spared no effort to promote the development of Chinese music. The most influential among his works are undoubtedly art songs. Huang Zi was the most valuable and influential composer during the prosperous period of art song creation in the 1930s.

The characteristic of art songs is the use of the creative technique of "the trinity of music, poetry, and piano accompaniment". It is a highly artistic song form. The creation of art songs in China in the first half of the 20th century was a song form with existing national colors formed by integrating art song creation techniques from Western countries such as Germany and Austria into Chinese music tradition. Schubert is a representative figure and model of Western art songs, and Huang Zi has made his own in-depth research on the basis of Schubert, and is a peak of Chinese composers in the art song world.

When Huang Zi created artistic songs, he valued the combination of lyrics and music, and was good at using refined musical language to express the artistic conception of poetry. The lyrics are full of poetic flavor and high artistic quality. Among the 74 vocal works that Huang Zi composed after returning to China, almost 4/5 were selected from primary and secondary school textbooks. Among them, "Skill", "Canon Song" and "Words of the West Wind" express the innocent nature and love of life of children. "Flowers Are Not Flowers", "Yan Yu", "Walking in the Snow to Seek Plum Blossoms" and "Bu Suanzi· Huangzhou Dinghui Yuan Residence Work", etc., are regarded as art songs due to their popularity during the singing process, and are often performed at concerts.

Art songs account for a very small proportion in his vocal works, but they are all written with great detail and exquisite emotional expression. Among them, "Spring Thoughts", "Homesickness", "Three Wishes of a Rose" and "Dian Rou Lips·Fu Climb the Tower" not only spread like wildfire as soon as they came out, but also have long-lasting vitality and are still popular songs for many singers. repertoire. As a composer who was baptized by the New Culture Movement and the May 4th Movement in his youth, and has always had patriotic and democratic feelings, his "Anti-Enemy Song", "Flag is Flying", "September 18th", "Hot Blood" and other reflections Reflecting the Chinese people's increasingly awakened national consciousness and extremely high patriotic enthusiasm in the 1930s, "Raising Silkworms", "Cow", "Who Feeds Me" and "Huainan Ballads" sang about the sufferings of the working people and their desire to end the civil war and unite to resist aggression. voice.