How Do I Become a Professional Musician?

Musician is a broad term. In short, it means focusing on artists in the field of music. It includes people who compose and perform music all over the world. Singers are also considered musicians, but they have special names as singers. It can also be said to be a successful person who specializes in music activities and brings spiritual enjoyment, such as Mozart, Beethoven, Bach and so on.

musician

(Successful person specializing in music events)

There is a special category among musicians who does not create or play

Xing Hai

(1905-1945) During the short life of Ping Xinghai, he composed and lived for more than 10 years. He composed hundreds of songs (more than 250 existing songs), 4 choruses, 1 opera, 2 symphonies, 4 orchestral suites, 1 Rhapsody and instrumental solos and repertoires including violin and piano. In Xinghai's writings, the most numerous and most influential are a variety of mass songs. "The Yellow River Cantata" is the most important and influential representative work by Xinghai.

Nie Er

Nie Er (formerly known as Nie Shouxin, February 14, 1912-July 17, 1935), Chinese musician, Zi Ziyi (also known as Ziyi), composer of the National Anthem of the People's Republic of China, "The March of the Volunteer Army". "The text contains the Tao, the poetry with the will, and the joy is the heart." Nie Er himself and even his impassioned and immortal works were created by that particular national perilous era. Those powerful notes are also the aspirations of the people in the environment at that time.

Wang Luobin

(1913-1996) Comrade Wang Luobin is a music artist with a strong patriotic spirit. When the Chinese nation was in distress, he resolutely rushed to the front line of the Anti-Japanese War, participated in anti-Japanese propaganda organizations several times, and actively carried out the anti-Japanese propaganda work. With his patriotic enthusiasm, he wrote a large number of anti-Japanese songs such as "Lao Xiang, Battlefield", "Laundry Song", "Songs of Feng Lingdu" and "Slaves' Love", singing all over the North China front, encouraging many aspiring Youths join the Anti-Japanese Salvation Movement. His "Kangding Love Songs", "Half the Moon Climbs Up", "Maira", "In the Far Away", "Alamo Khan", "Xaxi", "Girls in Dabancheng", Chairman Salamau and others are well-known and well-known in China, and many of them are compiled into university vocal textbooks.

He Luting

(1903-1999) Formerly known as He Anqing, also known as He Baozhen, He Yan, etc. After liberation, Mr. He Luting focused his energy on music teaching. He has been the dean of the Shanghai Conservatory of Music (News) and founded the Middle School and the Primary School of the Shanghai Conservatory of Music to train a large number of outstanding music talents for the country. He composed 3 choruses, 24 choruses, more than 200 songs, 6 piano songs, 7 orchestral music, 25 film music and more than 140 essays and translations. He also published "Selected Works of He Luting Music Papers" Wait. His songs "Guerrilla Songs", "Ken Chun Ni", and "On the Jialing River" were spread at home and abroad during the War of Resistance Against Japan, and they were enduring songs in concerts and singing activities. His instrumental works include piano solo "Shepherd Piccolo", "Lullaby", orchestral music "Sendijdema" and "Party". His creations are rigorous and well-conceived, complete and compact in structure, concise and concise in his methods, sincere and natural feelings, distinctive characteristics of the times and a strong atmosphere of life. Especially in song composition, his intimate and melodic melody and a clear sense of the times make him an outstanding people musician that people will never forget.

Zhang Shu

(19091938) In 1926, he entered the Music Department of Shanghai University of the Arts, and later entered the National Indian Academy of Music to major in vocal music. Is the main backbone of left-wing music activities. Has composed more than 200 songs. "Sunset in the West", "Husband Becomes a Soldier", "Scratching Wolf", "Hong Boqu" and other widely sung. He died in a bombing of Japanese aircraft in Guilin in 1938.

Huang Zi

(1904-1938) Graduated from the Music Department of Yale University in the United States in 1929. He is a musician who has a great influence in modern times. His choral works are most widely circulated with "Anti-Enemy Songs" and "Flags Are Flying". He also authored China's first oratorio "Song of Everlasting Sorrow", and several student songs, children's songs, and movie songs for art songs. Instrumental works include two symphonies, "Nostalgia" and "Urban Scenery Fantasia".

Liu Tianhua

Liu Tianhua chose erhu as a breakthrough in reforming national music, borrowed techniques such as vibrating bows from the violin and Western instrumental music creation techniques, combined the techniques of fingering of the lute and the overtones of the guqin, and established and applied multiple positions. How to play. All these have added erhu's profound artistic expression from music to performance, thereby turning this ancient folk instrument that has not been valued into a modern professional solo instrument and becoming the protagonist and representative of Chinese folk music. It is regarded as the founder of modern erhu performance school.

Chen Gang

(1935-) Shanghainese. He studied music with his father, Chen Gexin, and studied piano with Hungarian pianist Vele from the age of ten. After the founding of the People's Republic of China, he joined the Army Art Troupe. At the age of fifteen, he began to write music. He has written some works such as unaccompanied choirs and piano interludes. In 1955, he entered the composition department of Shanghai Conservatory of Music. He studied under Ding Shande, Sang Tong, and Soviet experts. In the fourth grade of university, he co-authored the violin concerto "Liang Shanbo and Zhu Yingtai", which is well-known both at home and abroad, in cooperation with He Zhanhao. Later he wrote violin works such as "Morning of Miaoling", "I Love Taiwan", "The Sun Shines in Tashkurgan", "Love Songs of Qingshuijiang River" and other instrumental works.

Hua Yanjun

(1893--1950) folk musician. The name is A Bing, a native of Dongting, Wuxi, Jiangsu, and the son of the local Taoist priest Hua Qinghe. Huaqing He Xuehai is good at playing various folk musical instruments, especially in pipa. Hua Yanjun has been learning music from his father since childhood. He lost his mother at the age of four, suffered from eye disease at the age of 21, and was blind at the age of 35. In Wuxi, I live by selling, singing and playing various musical instruments along the street to taste the sufferings of the world. A Bing's instrumental performance was welcomed by the masses, and his superior skills were favored by the local Taoist music community as early as 18 years old. He has studied a wide range of folk music extensively, is able to transcend narrow teaching and imitation, and composes and plays various instrumental music according to his feelings about real life. However, most of his works in his life have not been passed on to the world for various reasons. Only the erhu songs "Erquan Reflecting the Moon", "Listening to the Pine", and "Cold Spring Wind"; the pipa songs "The Big Wave Washes the Sand", "The Emperor Zhao Jun", "Dragon Boat", etc. have been preserved, and have become treasures in the Chinese folk music hall . In 1950, the six pieces of music he played were recorded, and the records were compiled by the National Institute of Music of the Central Conservatory of Music into "A Bingqu Collection" (published by the Music Press in 1956).

Lei Zhenbang

(1916-1997) is a well-known composer of film music in China. He is a national-level composer. He was once a director of the Chinese Musicians Association, a director of the China Film Artists Association, a chairman of the China Film and Music Association, and a member of the Sixth National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference. In May 1916, Lei Zhenbang was born in Beijing, Manchu. Due to his relatively well-off family life, he was exposed to Peking Opera at a very young age. When he was seven or eight years old, he was able to hum a short piece of Peking Opera, and he could use Peking Opera and some songs with Hu Qin. In September 1928, Lei Zhenbang came to Shenyang Fengtian Public School to study elementary school, and later entered Nanmang Middle School. Under the influence of a music teacher, Lei Zhenbang learned to play a harmonica, joined the school harmonica team, and became the conductor of the team. He often turns some songs into harmonica ensembles and directs performances.

Li Huanzhi

(1919-2000) originally from Jinjiang, Fujian, was born in Hong Kong. In 1936, he joined the Shanghai-made domestic audio teacher and studied under Xiao Youmei. After the outbreak of the Anti-Japanese War, he worked on revolutionary songwriting in Xiamen and Hong Kong. In 1938, he studied at the Music Department of Yanxun Luxun Art Institute, and left to teach after finishing school, and edited "National Music". During the liberation war, he served as the director of the music department of the North China United University Literary and Art College. After the founding of the People's Republic of China, he has been active in the music front and is currently the chairman of the Chinese Musicians Association. For more than forty years, he has created a large number of musical works. In addition to singing and singing songs such as "Democracy for the People's Republic of China", "New China Youth March", "Good Socialism" and other songs, there are mainly orchestral "Spring Festival Suite", "First Symphony Hero Island ", Guqin chorus" Su Wu ", Guzheng concerto" Miluojiang Fantasia ", one-act opera" Autumn Exotic ", etc., also composed" Composer Tutorial ", and wrote more than 300 papers, some Included in the book "Essays on Music Creation".

Marco

(1918-1976) was born in Xuzhou, Jiangsu. He studied in the Chemistry Department of Henan University, and then, under the inspiration and guidance of Xinghai Ping, participated in the third team of the Henan Anti-enemy Supporting Tour. He arrived in Yan'an in 1939, worked and studied in the Music Working Troupe of Lu Xun Art Institute, and received the guidance of Ping Xinghai, Lu Ye, and others. He recorded and compiled a large number of ethnic materials. He later engaged in music activities in the Northeast Liberated Area, and served as vice president of the China Conservatory of Music after liberation. I wrote more than 200 music works in my life, including the songs "Nanniwan", "We Are Young Democrats", "We Workers Have Power", "Lvliangshan Chorus", and the Yang opera "Couple Literacy" and the opera " "Zhou Zishan" (cooperating with Zhang Lu and Liu Chi), "White Hair Girl" (cooperating with Qu Wei, Zhang Lu, Xiang Zheng, etc.), "Xiao Er Hei Marriage", and orchestral "Northern Shaanxi Suite" are widely spread. In the study of music theory, in addition to special research on Xing Xinghai and author of "Xing Xinghai Biography", it also involves the development of new operas, reform of opera music, revolutionary music traditions, and mass music life. There are books such as "Speech of Chinese Folk Music", "Speech of the Times" and more than 200 papers. He has made important contributions in song creation, opera creation, and music theory, leaving a rich legacy for people. In 1978, some of his songs were compiled into "Mark's Song Selection" and published.

Xiao Youmei

(1884-1940) In 1901, he went to Japan to study education and piano, and joined the "Confederation". In 1912, he went to Germany to study music and obtained a doctorate with the article "Chinese Ancient Musical Instrument Filial Piety". He is the pioneer and outstanding music educator of modern professional music education in China. "Question", "Yanyu of Nanfei", and "May 4th Memorial Patriotic Anthem" are his masterpieces. His main works are "Comparative Study of Chinese and Western Music", "Overview of Chinese Music History".

Li Jinhui

(1891-1961) In 1916, participating in the "Peking University Rhythm Research Society", under the influence of the May Fourth New Culture Movement, began to devote himself to popularizing music education and promoting Mandarin activities. He proposed that "learning Mandarin is best to start with singing". "Training children." His opera creation behind the song has an enlightening importance in the history of Chinese opera development. Masterpieces "Poor Autumn Incense", "Grape Fairy", "Night of the Moon", "Little Painter" and so on.

Ma Sicong

(1912-1987) was the first violinist in China and the most influential violinist and composer in modern times. The young Ma Sicong mainly played the violin as his violinist. His works such as "Lullaby", "First Rondo", "Inner Mongolia Suite", "Tibetan Notes", "Pastoral Songs", and F Major "Violin Concerto" are important assets of modern Chinese violin music.

Li Jiefu

(1913-1976) Chinese composer. Formerly known as Li Yunlong, he used the name Li Jiefu. After the "September 18" incident, he engaged in anti-Japanese rescue activities. After the founding of the People's Republic of China, he served as the president of Northeast Music College and the dean of Shenyang Conservatory of Music. Chairman of Liaoning Branch of Chinese Musicians Association. He composed 205 songs in his lifetime, his representative works are "Singing Two Little Cowboys", "We Are on the Road", "Victory Flowers Bloom Red", "Qinyuan Spring Snow" and so on.

Zhao Yuanren

(1892-1982) a famous linguist. In 1010, he went to study in the United States and studied music. He has composed nearly a hundred songs and several piano pieces. His musical works, especially the solo and the chorus "Teach Me How to Don't Want Him", "Selling Cloth Ballads" and "Sea Charm", etc., represent the high level of Chinese music creation in the 1920s.

Musician Shen Xingong

(18701947) Formerly known as Guanghong, No. Changyu, Pen name Xingong. Studying in Japan in 1902, during this period, organized a "music workshop" and began to compose music songs, school music. Shen Xingong is the earliest music educator in modern Chinese history and one of the earliest authors of non-song textbooks. Masterpieces "Gymnastics-Military Exercise", "Bamboo Horse", "Blacksmith", "Revolutionary Army", "Yellow River" and so on.

Li Shutong

(18801942) The scientific names are Wen Tao and Zi Shutong. He traveled to Japan in 1905, majored in painting, and studied piano and composition theory. In 1906, Japan's earliest music periodical, the Music Magazine, was independently published in Japan. In the same year, Zeng Xiaogu and the drama group "Chunliu" were organized in Tokyo. After returning to China in 1910, he taught in several universities and devoted great energy to art education. In 1918, he was shaved as a monk at the Dinghui Temple in Hupao, Xihu, with the name of the sound and the name of Hongyi. Song masterpieces, "The National Anthem", "Greater China", "Spring Tour", "Farewell" and so on.

Wang Guangqi

(1891-1936) went to Germany to study in 1920, studied political economy, and transferred to music in 1923. He joined the University of Berlin in 1927 to specialize in musicology. In 1934, he received a Ph.D. from the University of Bonn for his article "On Chinese Classical Opera". His research pioneered oriental folk music. His masterpieces include "Music of Eastern Nations", "Evolution of European Music", "On Chinese Classical Opera", etc.

Yang Yinliu

(1899-1984) Entered the "Tianyun Club" at the age of 12 and learned phonology and Kunqu from Mei Yanqing. In 1932, he went to Yanjing University to take an elective music course. In 1936, he became a researcher at Harvard Yenching Academy and began to study music. The publication of his representative works "The Future of Chinese Music and Its Research" and "Outline of Chinese Music History" is undoubtedly a sign of the progress of Chinese music history in this period.

Zheng Lucheng

(1918-1976) originally from North Korea, entered Chinese nationality in 1950, and studied in Lu Yi. Representative works include "Chorus of the Eighth Route Army", "Yanshui Ballad", "Ansong of Yan'an", "Chorus of the Eighth Route Army", and other widely sung songs. Its musical melody is free and easy, bold, full of the characteristics of the times and distinctive personality.

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