Yu Shaoze

Organized by 八日蝉 on 2022-04-13
Introduction to Yu Shaoze(guqin)Master performer,music educator

Yu Shaoze (1903-1988), courtesy name Run, was born in 1903 to a wealthy family in Chengdu, Sichuan. Yu Shaoze is an outstanding Shu school guqin educator and performer in modern times.

Yu Shaoze entered a private school at the age of eight, and was admitted to a provincial foreign language college at the age of seventeen to specialize in English. After graduation, he worked as a middle school English teacher for sixteen years. He studied diligently since childhood and liked music. He successively learned instruments such as flute, erhu, and pipa. At the age of fifteen, he joined his uncle, Liao Wenfu, to learn guqin.

Yu Shaoze's guqin performance not only inherited the characteristics of the Shu style guqin, but also formed his own steady and simple style. As a German and Italian educator, he has written many guqin treatises based on his years of playing experience, won many awards, and cultivated many famous guqin masters and luthiers.

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