Introduction to Gu Shengying?

Gu Shengying (1937 ~ 1967) was born in a scholarly family in Shanghai (his father, Gu, was a patriotic general and once served as the secretary of Cai Tingkai, commander of the 19th Route Army, and his mother, Qin Shenyi, was high flyers, formerly a foreign language and literature department of Shanghai Datong University), and his ancestral home was in Wuxi, Jiangsu. At the age of five, he entered the Shanghai Chinese and Western Primary School, which offers piano courses. Since the third grade, he has won the first prize in all previous competitions. He has successively studied under Professor Qiu Zhen 'ai, Professor Yang Jiaren and Professor Li Jialu, and achieved remarkable results. She also studied theory from Magshun and music history from Shen, and benefited from Fu Lei's influence in literature. Gu Shengying studied hard, had profound thoughts, exhibited Chinese and foreign literary works, and was good at drawing nutrition from various techniques. From 65438 to 0953, Gu Shengying, a teenager, began to step into the music stage, playing Chopin's Piano Concerto No.2 in F minor and Beethoven's Piano Concerto in B major with Shanghai Symphony Orchestra, which was a great success, and became a piano soloist of Shanghai Symphony Orchestra the following year. 1955 held a solo concert in Shanghai for the first time and received rave reviews. After 1956, she began to study under the famous Soviet pianists Tatulian, Chuck and Ta Crafcenco, which made her piano skills more and more refined and gradually became one of the few piano players in China.

1957, Gu Shengying, who was only 19 years old, won the gold medal in the piano competition of the 6th Moscow International Youth Festival, which was the first gold medal won by China people in an international music competition since the founding of New China. More than forty judges agreed that her performance was "a miracle". 1958 10 She won the highest prize for women's piano in the Geneva International Music Competition with more than 100 players from 36 countries (the famous pianist Polini and Ronaldinho Turini tied for the highest prize for men's piano), which aroused strong repercussions in the western music industry. Swiss national radio and national television broadcast the award-winning concert live to the whole of Europe. 1964, she won another prize in the internationally influential Queen Elizabeth International Piano Competition in Belgium and became an internationally influential female pianist. During the 1950s and 1960s, Gu Shengying, as the music emissary of New China, visited more than ten countries, including the Soviet Union, Switzerland, Belgium, Poland, Hungary, Bulgaria and Finland, as well as Hong Kong and Macau, which caused great repercussions. Hungarian critics said: "She injected charm and poetry into Beethoven's music, and showed Bach's seriousness, Schumann's richness and Debussy's clarity and beauty in front of the audience." Bulgarian critics said: "Her performance focuses on poetry and heartfelt feelings ... Chopin's music presents a rare beauty in her hands." There are even international authoritative comments that she is a "born Chopin player and a real piano poet" and an "amazing combination of superb skills and profound ideological content".

Gu Shengying's performance style is distinctive and full of romantic poetry and dignified charm. Her beautiful and clear timbre gives people a pure and beautiful enjoyment, and her light and quick touch is as bright and neat as a jade plate.

As a pianist in China, Gu Shengying devoted himself to the piano music of the motherland and held the "China Piano Solo Concert" in Shanghai on 1963. On the music stage in China and the world, she enthusiastically introduced many piano music works by China composers.

As a real artist, Gu Shengying has a lofty personality and sincere patriotism. Even in the days of being rejected and wronged, she often lives overseas and takes care of her relatives in the motherland. On the way to a foreign country to participate in the competition, she wrote passionately in her diary: "For my motherland and my people, I will work hard until I reach the high podium. Her life is pure and clean, and her broad and loving feelings and dedication to artistic Excellence will always be a model for artists in China.