12 years old, Yin Chengzong was admitted to the High School Attached to Shanghai Conservatory of Music with the first place. Two months later, he was selected into the expert class by Xie Luofu, the youngest Soviet expert in his class. 65438-0956, attended the opening ceremony of the first national music week held in Beijing. As the only teenager in the concert, Yin Chengzong played a piano solo. 1956, tatar Lian, a Soviet expert, was selected to study in the Central Conservatory of Music (he was in Tianjin at that time and moved to Beijing in 1958). A year later, tatar Lian was transferred back to the Soviet Union, and Yin Chengzong returned to the Shanghai Conservatory of Music, where he met his third Soviet piano teacher, alzas Manova. Crafcenco, an expert on Soviet issues who teaches at the Central Conservatory of Music, came to Shanghai to give lectures. After listening to Yin's performance, he was taken back to the Central Conservatory of Music. 1958, 16-year-old Yin Chengzong went abroad for the first time and participated in the Romanian George Enescu (Enescu George) competition. She didn't fully prepare for the first exam, so she rushed to Sun Shan. She returned to Beijing to continue her studies at the Central Conservatory of Music. 1959, 17-year-old Yin Chengzong participated in the 7th World Youth and Student Festival Piano Competition held in Vienna, and all ten judges got full marks and won the first prize. After that, Yin Chengzong was appointed by the state to study at the Leningrad Conservatory of Music in the Soviet Union, preparing to participate in the second Tchaikovsky International Piano Competition 1962. In the meantime, I often listen to concerts, operas, ballet performances and art exhibitions, which expands and enriches my artistic accomplishment. Participants in the 2nd Tchaikovsky International Piano Competition, such as Ogden of Britain and Naji of Askin of the Soviet Union, are all professional performers over 25 years old and have won many prizes in international competitions. Yin Chengzong faces great challenges.
In the competition, Yin Chengzong was amazed by his skills, and the audience responded most enthusiastically. The judges spoke highly of Yin Chengzong's profound understanding of music and impeccable skills. Yin conquered Moscow people with his talent.
With the deterioration of Sino-Soviet relations and the interference of political factors in the competition ranking, Yin Chengzong came second (the first place was a German Jew who later became a world-famous piano master).
After winning the prize, Yin Chengzong toured the Soviet Union for fifty or sixty performances. After studying in the Soviet Union for three years, Yin Chengzong completed the piano undergraduate course ahead of schedule with excellent results in all subjects, and continued to study composition and conductor.
Yin Chengzong was recalled to China on 1963. In order to understand the situation of the literary and art circles at that time, Chairman Mao arranged a small-scale literary evening on196365438+February 3 1 day. Yin Chengzong performed his debut "Yangko", and Chairman Mao encouraged Yin Chengzong to do more national things. 1September, 964, during the "Four Cleanups" movement, Yin Chengzong was assigned to work in Tongxian County, Beijing, and contacted the bottom farmers. 1965 graduated from the Central Conservatory of Music and became the chief pianist of the China Central Orchestra. Because the piano plays western music, the fate of the piano has fallen into a trough in China under the trend of criticizing "custom, capital and repair". Seeing that modern Peking Opera, Peking Opera actors and ballet dancers in Yin Chengzong modern dance drama are all active on the stage, he no longer waits passively and is determined to prove that the piano can serve the workers, peasants and soldiers with practice. 1967 In May, to commemorate the 25th anniversary of Mao Zedong's speech at the Yan 'an Forum on Literature and Art, an upsurge of organizing Mao Zedong Thought Literature and Art Propaganda Team to perform for the masses was set off. He and some friends spontaneously took a bold action, moving a upright piano to Tiananmen Square to perform, starting with playing songs familiar to the masses, and then letting the audience click at will. Most of the songs started with popular quotations in China at that time. Some audience asked to listen to Beijing opera, and he knew nothing about it at that time. But because the Central Orchestra played the symphony Shajiabang, he was familiar with the tune of the play and played it from memory. After returning home, I rushed to write a passage in the play in which Grandma Sha denounced the enemy. The next day, I found a singer and returned to Tiananmen Square to perform for the public. The response was very enthusiastic. After performing in Tiananmen Square for three days, he went to Jianguomen and other streets in Beijing to perform and was loved by the audience. Later, many people wrote letters to express their praise and encouragement.
Inspired by the performance experience in Tiananmen Square and the audience singing Peking Opera, Yin Chengzong had the impulse to create "Hanging Red Lantern with Piano Accompaniment". So he paid a teacher visit to China Peking Opera Theatre, and made a very detailed study of Peking Opera and piano, two arts of different cultures. 1967 National Day, Yin Chengzong and Liu Changyu played The Red Lantern with piano accompaniment in Beijing National Culture Palace, which caused a sensation and was fully affirmed by the central leadership.
After that, Yin Chengzong continued to complete the aria of Li Yuhe and Li Nainai, which was completed at 1968. The piano accompaniment of The Red Lantern was listed in the list of "Eight Model operas" and became a model of "combining literature and art with workers, peasants and soldiers, and literature and art serve the workers, peasants and soldiers". As a bold attempt of a new music form, the piano accompaniment of "Hanging the Red Lantern High" has successfully combined the excellent advantages of Chinese and western music cultures and opened an unprecedented road for the nationalization of piano music.
After the piano accompaniment "The Red Lantern" was successful, Yin Chengzong began to consider creating piano concerto music with major themes, so as to make the piano stand out as the protagonist and integrate into the times and public life. At that time, in a big-character poster, it was said that when the central leaders met the students of the Central Conservatory of Music, they would play the piano, sing the Yellow River chorus and sing the motherland. This inspired him. He consulted some students in the Conservatory of Music, and finally the theme fell on the Yellow River Chorus in Xian Xinghai. A creative team was established for the piano concerto Yellow River, composed of Yin Chengzong, Chu and Sheng, with Yin Chengzong as the secretary. Led by the representative of the Central Orchestra, a group of five people went to the Yellow River to experience life. Later, Liu Zhuang and Shi Shucheng joined the creative team (mainly playing the piano as the B angle). After nearly a year's efforts, this work was basically completed before the end of 1969. In order to push the music to a climax with the melody of "Dongfanghong" in the fourth paragraph, Yin Chengzong closed the door for a week, deliberated repeatedly, and integrated the melody of "Dongfanghong" into the whole, forming an impassioned and shocking climax.
1970 February, the Political Bureau of the Central Committee inspected the Yellow River in the Great Hall of the People. After the performance, Premier Zhou Enlai shouted excitedly: "Xinghai is alive!" . 1 970 may1day, the piano concerto "Yellow River" was officially performed in Beijing National Culture Palace. 197 1 year, Yin Chengzong visited Romania, Albania, Yugoslavia, Britain, France and Italy with the Central Ballet (later canceled his performance in Britain, France and Italy for some reason). Before each ballet "White-haired Girl" and "Red Female Soldier", add the Yellow River first.
1972 after Nixon's visit to China, China's literary and art circles ushered in a relatively open period. The London Symphony Orchestra, the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra and Philadelphia Orchestra visited one after another, and Yin Chengzong performed the Yellow River with these orchestras. 1973, Yin Chengzong performed with the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra led by claudio abbado, which impressed him deeply. When reporting on the United States, the reporter of The New York Journal wrote many favorable comments on the cooperation between Yin Chengzong and Philadelphia Orchestra led by eugene ormandy. Then Japan invited him to perform in Japan. I hope that the Japanese side can play Chinese and western songs, while the Chinese side is only allowed to play Chinese works, but there were not enough Chinese works to play at that time. Yin Chengzong felt it necessary to create some China piano solo works to support the whole concert.
Yin Chengzong was allowed to form a creative group composed of him, Chu, Liu Zhuang, Du Mingxin and others, specializing in piano solo creation. He and some members of the creative team, together with the piano, moved into a quiet house near Beihai Park, which is being renovated. There is no running water, gas and toilet in the room, so he has to carry water, make a fire and use the outdoor public toilet. Yin Chengzong and his companions spent a bumper harvest year here. The creative group selected some ancient songs that can represent the essence of traditional music in China, such as Travel Notes around Flying Houses and Moonlit Night on the Spring River. Through interviews with pipa players Yang and Cao Anhe and other senior musicians in China, I collected a lot of materials and listened to a lot of recordings. After a year's research and creation, he has created piano solo works such as Climbing over the Roof, Moonlight on the Spring River, Autumn Moon in Sanliuhu Lake, Three Lane of Plum Blossoms and Phoenix Birds. After that, he traveled to northern Shaanxi and wrote a folk song suite in northern Shaanxi. Yin Chengzong also rewrote the piano solo with two passages in the piano accompaniment of Hanging the Red Lantern High, and the piano suite was rewritten with the music of Du Ming Credit Dance Drama Red women soldiers. After two years of hard work, I finished more than an hour's work. "House of Flying Ambush", written with the playing method that reflects the fingering effect of pipa, may not be acceptable at that time and failed to pass the examination and approval of the Ministry of Culture. Therefore, "Travels around the Flying House" was buried for ten years and premiered on 1983. 1975, Yin Chengzong was invited to perform in Japan. In addition to the Yellow River recorded by NHK TV and broadcast in Japan and the above-mentioned ancient songs.