Liu Beimao

Organized by 八日蝉 on 2022-02-22
Introduction to Liu Beimao(erhu)Master performer,composer,music educator Liu Beimao (1903-1981), alias Shouci, a native of Jiangyin, Jiangsu Province, is a famous modern erhu performer, composer and educator. The son of Liu Baoshan, a scholar at the end of the Qing Dynasty, is brothers with the poet Liu Bannong and the musician Liu Tianhua. Liu Beimao is the faithful successor and developer of Liu Tianhua's career. After Liu Tianhua's death, he inherited his brother's legacy of "improving Chinese music" and composed more than 100 erhu performances such as "Han River Tide", "Little Flower Drum" and "Liufang Song". Qu is a prolific composer in the history of modern Chinese music, known as the "Master of National Music".
In 1940, Liu Beimao published the world-famous Erhu songs such as "Hanjiang Tide", "Forward Exercise" and "Song of the Drifter". These works profoundly reflect the times of the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression and the tragic fighting spirit of the broad masses of the people.
In 1942, on the way from Shaanxi to Shu, Mr. Liu Beimao composed the erhu song "Riding the Wind and Breaking the Waves", which reflected the author's lofty ambition and firm belief at that time.
During the Spring Festival in 1943, Mr. Liu Beimao was very happy. In one go, he composed the erhu song "Little Flower Drum". The song expresses the author's optimism in a difficult environment through the description of children's happy singing and dancing during the Spring Festival. After the founding of New China, Mr. Liu Beimao obtained a broad historical stage for music creation and unprecedentedly superior creation conditions. His artistic realm continued to sublimate. His music creations not only came out one after another, but also became more mature in theme and art.
1950. Mr. Liu composed the erhu tune "Farmers' Music", which is the author's first work as a gift to New China. Since then, Mr. Liu's spirit has doubled, and his ideas have sprung up, and he has successively composed more than 20 erhu songs such as "Happy Dance", "The Sun Shines on the Frontier of the Motherland" and "Song of Pleasure".
From 1958 to 1971, when he was seconded to Hefei Art Institute and Anhui Normal University to teach, Mr. Liu composed many erhu solos and dozens of pieces successively, such as "Beautiful Baohe", "A Thousand Miles of Huaibei Sailing to the South of the Yangtze River" and "Huangshan Viewing Waterfall". Children's Erhu.
From 1971 to 1981, Mr. Liu Beimao returned to Beijing from Anhui. Although he was ill, he still continued to write. He successively wrote "Reminiscence" and "Liufang Song", which praised the great achievements of the older generation of proletarian revolutionaries such as Premier Zhou, and the poems that praised the socialist modernization drive. "Ying Zhaohui" and other erhu songs. Mr. Liu Beimao created more than 100 erhu works in his life, and the above list is only his representative works in various periods. These masterpieces by Mr. Liu are an important link in the history of Chinese music development, and they are also the bright artistic pearls in the treasure house of Chinese culture.
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