Chen Zhenduo (1904.11.28～1999.11.8), No. Chenming, was from Shaojiaquan, Qidu Town, Linzi District. Famous Chinese musician, erhu educator, performer, composer and innovator of folk instrumental music, master of traditional Chinese music, one of the founders of contemporary folk music, and professor of the Music Department of Minzu University of China. Died in Beijing on November 8, 1999. Died at the age of 95.
Mr. Chen Zhenduo once taught in the music department of Peiping University, successively served as a professor of the Music Department of Tianjin Hebei Women's Normal University, a professor of Chongqing Qingmuguan National Conservatory of Music and the executive director of the professor's association, the deputy director and professor of the appointment committee of Nanjing National Conservatory of Music, and a professor of the Music Department of Anhui Normal University. , Director of the Folk Music Department of the Central Conservatory of Music, Professor of the Tianjin Conservatory of Music, Professor of the Minzu University of China, and Director of the Folk Music Teaching and Research Section of the Music Department. He is the honorary president of the Erhu Society of the Chinese Music Association and the honorary consultant of the Chinese Orchestral Association. He has been successively employed as a member of the Degree Evaluation Committee of the Central Conservatory of Music, a member of the Academic Committee of Minzu University of China, and a member of the Academic Evaluation Committee of the State Council. He is a contemporary folk music master and erhu master after Liu Tianhua.
Chen Zhenduo has been fond of music since childhood, and is good at erhu, jinghu, piano, Xiaodi, etc. He also has some research on guqin, pipa and other musical instruments. Also good at calligraphy, good at landscape painting. In 1925, he studied in the painting and music department of Jinan Fine Arts School. After graduating in 1928, he was admitted to the Shanghai Guoli Conservatory of Music. In 1929, he was transferred to the Music Department of Peking University School of Art and studied erhu under the tutelage of Liu Tianhua, a famous Chinese music master. In 1932, recommended by Mr. Liu Tianhua, Chen Zhenduo went to teach at Peking University Music College (formerly the Music Institute).
As early as 1929, Chen Zhenduo participated in the "Nursing Association" of the Shanghai National Conservatory of Music and fought against the Kuomintang government. During the Anti-Japanese War, he carefully composed "Anthology of Anti-Japanese Songs", which greatly inspired the fighting spirit of the officers and soldiers of the Anti-Japanese War. He also personally participated in the anti-Japanese guerrillas. In the later period of the liberation war, the Kuomintang government attempted to escape the Nanjing National Conservatory of Music to the south. Chen Zhenduo fought tit-for-tat with the Kuomintang government as the relocation team leader, and finally moved the college to Tianjin. Under the leadership of the Communist Party of China, he participated in the preparation for the establishment of the Central work at the conservatory.


In the more than 50 years of teaching, he devoted himself to the education of ethnic music, and trained a large number of students of all ethnic groups with qualified ideology and academic success. He has composed a large number of erhu performances, such as "Dawn in the Mountain Village", "Night Rain on Bananas", "Pastoral Spring", "Growing Cotton", "One Leaf Knows Autumn", "Birds Calling Clear", "Moon and Stream", "Bow Bridge Pan Moon", "Rain" "After Spring", "Blossoms in the Garden", "Red Light", "Praise to the Ming Tombs and Reservoir", "Spring Farming", etc., as well as the adapted songs "Come in February", "All Members Are Sunflowers", "Praise for Red Plum", "Send Big Brother" "Military and Civilian Production", etc. At the same time, he has organized, written and published a large number of monographs and academic articles, such as "How to Play Erhu", "Folk Gong and Drum", "Erhu Playing Method", "Research on Liu Tianhua's Works", "Liu Tianhua's Creation and Research", "Mr. Liu Tianhua's Memorial Book" "Wait.
Mr. Chen Zhenduo has also done research on the reform of musical instruments, and designed the erhu into the current form of an octagonal front and a rear cylinder. And actively support and participate in the reform of erhu silk strings to steel strings. This is a dramatic improvement for the erhu, and also affects the breakthrough improvement of national instruments such as the pipa.