Tagore, a name that Chinese people are too familiar with: Nobel Prize winner, a regular in textbooks, influenced the writing of Grandma Bingxin,Chinese was named "Zhu Zhendan" by Liang Qichao, and wrote a "little love song" for Lin Huiyin and Xu Zhimo.
When Tagore visited China, Lin Huiyin served as an interpreter for Xu Zhimo
If that's all your impression of him, Bob Dylan might be the first to jump out and disagree. Because he wasn't the first to win a Nobel Prize for writing lyrics. As early as 1913, Tagore gave a demonstration, and one of his award-winning works, "Jitanjali", was a collection of songs!
You would say that it's normal for poets to occasionally play crossovers. At this time, the "king of pop songs" Schubert will also stand up and express his opposition, he has created more than 600 popular songs in his lifetime, and he dare not claim to be the first. Because that descendant named Tagore created more than 2500 songs!
And Tai Weng has divided his own songs into categories: more than 650 songs for God, more than 500 love songs, more than 200 wind songs, more than 60 patriotic songs, and then two of them as the national anthem of India and Bangladesh.
Lyrics and songwriting and singing, Tagore single-handedly, equivalent to the current "singer-songwriter". But that's not what he's best at. Now folk, jazz, rock, rap, etc. all pay attention to "improvisation", people can play 80 kinds of songs when they are young, and 20 kinds of freestyle when they are older!
Know Tagore's musical status in the South Asian subcontinent? India and Bangladesh have opened up a musical category specifically for him, called "Tagore music"! And what's even more terrifying is that after his death, his songs became more popular than his major poetry works!
Seeing this, you may say that Tagore's "music map" should only be limited to Asia, right? That's a bad thing to say. As early as 1922, Tagore's Gardener's Collection was composed into a chorus by the Czech composer Janáček. In the same year, the Austrian composer Zemlinski selected 7 more to write a symphony!
A symphony derived from Tagore's poetry
Tagore is not so much a natural poet as a natural singer-songwriter. Hear what he said about himself in a poem:
The strings on my body have been accurately adjusted since I was born. All the sounds around me continued to resonate in my nervous system. (Zihua)