Shi Renwang is a famous harmonica player in China and a member of China Musicians Association. Born in Jin County, Zhejiang Province in 196, he loved music under the influence of his mother (music teacher) since childhood. He began to learn harmonica in 1928 and founded the mass harmonica club in Shanghai in 1929. He thinks the little harmonica is the most popular instrument to popularize music education. Since the establishment of the Popular Harmonica Club, he has been engaged in harmonica music activities diligently and conscientiously, and made great efforts in the practice of harmonica art.. He has made many valuable contributions to harmonica arrangement, composition, performance, education and theory.
Shi Renwang is a famous harpsichord, arranger and composer in China. He inherited and developed the oriental polyphonic harmonica music system, and with great enthusiasm, he adapted many songs and music loved by the people at all times and all over the world into harpsichord music. Not only is he good at mastering the composer's creative intention, but also he can skillfully use harmonica techniques to skillfully express various music works of different styles. In the aspect of harmonica arrangement, he pioneered the musical form of solo and instrumental performance, and he was good at using the variation principle in his creation to develop, change and enrich the main theme. He can follow the laws of China folk music, create beautiful preludes and introductions, connect the music segments seamlessly, and make full use of the techniques of adding flowers and variations to push the music to a climax. He always uses flexible techniques to deal with music, and never uses stiff accompaniment to run through the whole song. The piano music he composed is rigorous in structure, exquisite in technique, rich in content and unique. Such as Cowherd, Fengyang Flower Drum, Dance of Golden Snake, Variations on Nanniwan, Spinning Cotton, Beautiful Motherland, Dujuan Waltz and Carmen Variations. It is still widely circulated and praised by the harmonica world.
Shi Renwang is also a well-known harmonica player, and his creation is based on his playing practice. Because of his superb playing skills, which are fully reflected in his works, the art of harmonica music has been further developed. His accompaniment is soft and beautiful, clear and recognizable, with rich timbre, obvious roots, strong rhythm and beautiful expression. His breath is used properly, and his sense of music is rich and intriguing. In his long playing practice, he created the "small drum playing method", which made the music lively. He also created the octave plus hand tremolo method, which can not only show the magnificent and bright timbre, but also play the beautiful and mellow lyric melody. He is the most successful person in studying the Japanese-initiated "violin playing method" in China harmonica field. He has participated in the National Music Week, the Shanghai Spring and many concerts in the Shanghai music industry, which left a deep impression on people. He is famous for his superb harmonica skills. He was also honored to be invited by Premier Zhou to play his masterpiece Fengyang Flower Drum in Zhongnanhai. This is the attention and concern of the party and state leaders for the nationalization and popularization of harmonica music.
Shi Renwang is also an accomplished music educator. He has been promoting harmonica music education for decades since the establishment of the Popular Harmonica Club, enthusiastically popularizing harmonica music to the vast number of teenagers, students and national harmonica lovers, and has worked as a tutor in children's palaces, cultural centers, cultural palaces, youth palaces, and school harmonica classes and teams in Shanghai. He has also been to Beijing and Tianjin to teach harmonica on tour, and has been warmly welcomed by the vast number of harmonica lovers through china national radio Radio. His disciples are full of peaches and plums, and some of them have become famous harmonica activists, performers or musicians in China. Some have won prizes in international music competitions, winning honor for our country.
Shi Renwang is also a rare harmonica theorist in China. He is good at summing up his artistic practice experience for many years, and has compiled and published a unique style of Standard Harmonica Playing Method, Harmonica Broadcasting Teaching Material and Harmonica Playing Method for self-study. In particular, the Harmonica Arranging Method is an important theoretical contribution to the creation and adaptation of harmonica music. He also wrote How to Play the Harmonica for children, which is highly valued and loved by children in China. Many of his harmonica books, such as Self-study Method of Harmonica, New Method of Harmonica Performance, Harmonica Waltz and Selected Harmonica Songs, were published in Hong Kong, which had a considerable impact on harmonica lovers in Hong Kong, Macao and Southeast Asia and the harmonica sessions. Shi Renwang's works are not only the precious wealth of harmonica art theory. At the same time, it also enriches the artistic treasure house of the oriental polyphonic harmonica music system.