Based on Ah Bing's Erhu solo song " Erquan Yingyue " , he participated in the creation of the pipa and orchestra concerto "Little Sisters of the Prairie", spent painstaking efforts on the orchestral score of the modern ballet "Red Detachment of Women", and wrote "Wu Zuqiang Anthology - Xiahui Collection" and many other anthologies...
In the history of modern Chinese music
Wu Zuqiang is a difficult name to skip
Sadly
March 14
This outstanding composer and former president of the Central Conservatory of Music
He died at the age of 94
Personal photo of Wu Zuqiang, a famous composer and former president of the Central Conservatory of Music
Wu Zuqiang, originally from Wujin, Jiangsu Province. Born in Beijing on July 24, 1927. In elementary and middle school, under the influence of musicians Sheng Jialun and Zhang Dinghe, he aspired to learn music. In 1947, he entered the Department of Theoretical Composition of the National Conservatory of Music in Nanjing, where he studied under Jiang Dingxian.
After graduating from the Central Conservatory in 1952, he went to the Department of Theoretical Composition of the Moscow State Tchaikovsky Conservatory in the Soviet Union to study. After graduating in 1958, he returned to China and taught in the Composition Department of the Central Conservatory of Music, successively serving as a teaching assistant, lecturer, associate professor and professor. In 1978, he became the vice president of the Central Conservatory of Music, and in 1982, he became the dean.
As a representative of Chinese musicians, he has visited the Soviet Union, Britain, Czechoslovakia, Japan and other countries, and has served as a judge of international music competitions for many times. In 1979, he was elected as the executive director of the Chinese Musicians Association. Since 1985, he has been the vice chairman of the Chinese Musicians Association.
In terms of creation
Wu Zuqiang's most well-known works for ordinary audiences
It is a Chinese dance drama "Fish Beauty" cooperated with Du Mingxin
As well as with Du Mingxin, Wang Yanqiao, Shi Wanchun, and Dai Hongwei
Collaboration of modern ballets
The Red Detachment of Women
In addition, Wu Zuqiang's pipa concerto "Little Sisters of the Grassland" cooperated with Liu Dehai and Wang Yanqiao, and the pipa and orchestra music poem "Spring River Flower Moon Night" cooperated with Liu Dehai are also popular.
His adaptations of "Erquan Yingyue" and "Listening to Song" based on Ah Bing's Erhu solo pieces, as well as "Good Night", which are based on Liu Tianhua's original Erhu songs, are also classic works that are often performed.
Wu Zuqiang was born in a cultural family, and his father Wu Ying was a famous archaeologist of cultural relics and one of the founders of the Palace Museum. His eldest brother Wu Zuguang was a literary and dramatic master.
Wu Zuqiang has adhered to his father's artistic temperament and organizational skills since he was a child, and has shown them in turn in the music career, making him and his eldest brother jointly become a generation of "double bi" in the cultural and artistic circles of the republic.
As a highly respected person
Wu Zuqiang did not forget to promote the young descendants
Young composer Fang Yueqing said: "Mr. Wu Zuqiang is an iconic figure in contemporary Chinese music, and his "Composition and Composition Analysis" has almost a set of professional music practitioners, which is an academic reference work that can be called 'treasure book'. ”
Fang Yuqing said bitterly: "At that time, Mr. Wu was quick-witted, knowledgeable and amiable. Now, Mr. Crane is driving to the west, we have lost a respectable division commander, may Mr. Go all the way! ”
Hail to the masters and go all the way
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