The piano concerto The Yellow River is adapted from The Yellow River Cantata, a famous Chinese musician. The piano concerto Yellow River was founded in the early days of the "Cultural Revolution" in 1969.
Defending the Yellow River is the seventh movement of The Yellow River Cantata, which was written in War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression period. Songs are sung in unison and in turn. It has a wide mass and is a song widely spread by anti-Japanese soldiers and civilians.
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1. Guangweiran
1913 ~ 22.1.28) China poet and literary critic. Formerly known as Zhang Guangnian. Hubei Guanghua people. In 1927, he participated in the first revolutionary civil war in his hometown. He has been engaged in progressive drama activities and literary activities since the 193s. In 1936, he published the lyrics "Flowers in May" in Wuhan, and after composing music, it was widely sung in the anti-Japanese national salvation activities.
The Yellow River Cantata, who composed a group of poems, was first staged in Yan 'an after being set to music by Xian Xinghai. In 194, he went to Chongqing to engage in literary and artistic activities and create a long narrative poem Qu Yuan. Since 1949, he has been engaged in literary and artistic activities in Beijing. He has successively served as editor-in-chief of Screenplay, Wenyi Bao and People's Literature, and published a large number of literary and artistic comments under the signature of Zhang Guangnian.
2. Xian Xinghai
Xian Xinghai was born in a poor boatman's family in Macau on June 13th, 195 (on May 11th of the lunar calendar). In 1918, she entered the violin school attached to Lingnan University, and in 1926, she entered the Music Institute of Peking University and the Music Department of National Art College. In 1928, he entered Shanghai National Conservatory of Music to learn violin and piano, and published a famous short essay on music, Universal Music.
In p>1929, I went to Paris to work and study, and studied under the famous violinist Pani Oberdofer and the famous composer paul dukas. In 1931, he was admitted to the Paris Conservatory of Music. Studying in the composition class of Shola Cantorum.
During his stay in France, he composed more than ten works, such as Wind, Wandering Sonata in D minor, etc. After returning to China in 1935, he actively participated in the anti-Japanese national salvation movement, wrote a lot of combative mass songs, and wrote music for progressive films, such as Top Gun, March of Youth, drama Resurrection and Thunderstorm.
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