Cao Zheng (1920-1998.4.13) Guzheng educator, theorist, performer, founder of Chinese guzheng academies, master of Chinese guzheng generation, and professor of China Conservatory of Music.
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Cao Dongfu (1898-1970), male, Han nationality, is a famous Chinese guzheng player. His nickname is Cao Xiaoqin, and his scientific name is Cao Dianxian. He is the founder of Henan Zheng, one of the four major guzheng schools in China, and the founder of Henan Cao School's major tunes.
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Yuan Sha, a Chinese guzheng performing artist, has funded and trained dozens of disabled and impoverished students over the years, enabling them to embark on the road of guzheng art and become self-reliant, cultivate nearly 2,000 guzheng education talents, and hold special guzheng music performances at home and abroad. Nearly 200 conferences and lectures have been held, and dozens of textbooks and CD-ROMs have been published, which has made great contributions to the promotion and popularization of guzheng art.
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Stephen Collins Foster, American composer. Worked as a warehouse manager in the early years. He has composed about 200 songs with popular and smooth folk songs, and wrote his own lyrics, such as "My Hometown Relatives", "Oh Susannah", "My Kentucky Hometown", "Old Black Slave" and so on.
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Liu Beimao (1903-1981), alias Shouci, a native of Jiangyin, Jiangsu Province, is a famous modern erhu performer, composer and educator. He has successively composed more than 100 erhu performances such as "Han River Tide", "Little Flower Drum" and "Liu Fang Qu".
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Huang Yijun's ancestral home is Liuyang, Hunan, and he was born in Suzhou, Jiangsu. Graduated from Suzhou Middle School in 1933. In 1934, he was a performer in the Chinese Band of the Shanghai EMI Record Company. He composed music such as "Blossoms and a Full Moon", and provided the soundtrack for the movie "Chicken Feather Letter" and the play "Guan Hanqing".
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Xian Xinghai (June 13, 1905 - October 30, 1945), formerly known as Huang Xun and Kong Yu, was a member of the Communist Party of China. His ancestral home is Panyu, Guangdong (now Lanhe Town, Nansha District, Guangzhou), and he was born in Macau. A famous composer and pianist in modern China, he is known as the "People's Musician".
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Liu Xisheng (April 1944 - ) from Luanxian County, Hebei Province, is a national first-class actor. Member of the Chinese Musicians Association, member of the Chinese National Orchestra Society, honorary director of the National Yangqin Professional Committee.
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Lei Zhenbang (1916-1997), a native of Beijing. Manchu. The most famous film musician in New China. From 1955 to 1980, he composed more than 100 masterpieces of film songs. Since childhood, he loved Beijing opera and folk minor tunes, and could play erhu. He studied composition at a Japanese high school of music and worked as a middle school teacher after returning to China.
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Yan Laolie is a Chinese folk musician. A famous artist in the early stage of Cantonese music, formerly known as Yan Xingtang, from Cantonese. He lived from about 1850 to 1930. He has a good temperament, can compose, and is good at dulcimer. With the "Right Bamboo Playing Method", he created such songs as "Dry Sky Thunder", "Upside Down Curtain" and "Chain Buttons".
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