1. Li Shutong (1880--1942)
This century's famous author of Chinese school songs, ancestry Pinghu, Zhejiang, born in Tianjin, a scholar, salt merchant family, since childhood, bright, when he was a teenager, poetry, painting, seal cutting famous. 1901 into the Shanghai Nanyang Public School, 1905--1910, studied in Tokyo, Japan, Ueno Fine Arts College, studying art, music, during this period, with Ouyang Ouyang, the first time in the history of the world's largest art school, the first time in the history of the world's largest art school. In 1905-1910, he studied art and music at the Ueno Fine Arts College in Tokyo, during which time he and Ouyang Yuqian founded China's earliest drama group, the Chunliu Society, and became the protagonists of the famous Anecdotes of the Lady of the Camellias and The Negro Appeals to Heaven; in the spring of 1906, he edited and published China's earliest music publication, the Little Magazine of Music, in his personal capacity. His life experience was legendary, combining old and new cultures. He created more than 70 songs, which had a great influence on the future generations.
2. Xiao Youmei (1884-1940)
The founder of modern professional music education in China in this century was a composer, educator and music theorist. A native of Zhongshan, Guangdong Province, he went to Germany in 1912 to study music and was awarded the Doctor of Philosophy degree for his dissertation "Historical Study of the Orchestra in China before the 17th Century", and in 1927, with the support of Cai Yuanpei and others, he founded the National Conservatory of Music in Shanghai, the first conservatory in the history of modern music in China (later the Shanghai National Music College). He is a pioneer of music education in China, and is credited with founding professional music education institutions and training professional music talents.
3. Lai Kam Fai (1891 - 1967)
The representative figure and composer of children's song and dance music in modern professional music creation in this century. He was a native of Xiangtan, Hunan Province, and founded the "China Song and Dance College" and the "China Song and Dance Drama Troupe" and other musical organizations. Following the spirit of the May Fourth Movement, he was enthusiastic about reforming general music education and promoting the Mandarin language. His works inherited the excellent tradition of school songs and reflected the spirit of science and democracy in the May Fourth Era. His plays were widely sung throughout the country and were included in the music textbooks of primary and secondary schools at that time, which had a great influence.
4. Wang Guangqi (1892-1936)
The pioneer of musicological research in the history of modern Chinese music in this century. A native of Wenjiang in Sichuan province, he was y influenced by feudal culture since childhood, and entered the University of Berlin in 1927 to major in musicology. He studied musicology at the University of Berlin in 1927. His research scope is broad and he has published 17 books. He was not only the earliest scholar in East Asia who practiced comparative musicology and put forward pioneering ideas, but also the first musicologist in modern Chinese music history who introduced Chinese music to the world in a foreign language.
5. Mei Lanfang (1894 - 1961)
The most famous Peking Opera artist of this century. Originally from Jiangsu, he was born in Beijing. Taking his family tradition, he learned opera at the age of 9, and at the age of 14, he took the Xiliancheng class. Her voice is mellow, her singing is soft and gentle, her body is beautiful, and her performance is meticulous, making her famous all over the country. She has rehearsed Chang'e Runs to the Moon, Daiyu Burial of Flowers and Heavenly Maiden Scattering Flowers, etc., and made useful exploration in expanding the expressive power of Peking Opera. After Wang Yaoqing, he consolidated and developed the line of "Flower Shirt" by integrating Qingyi, Hua Dan and Dagger Horse Dan on the basis of long-term stage practice. In his middle age, he formed the graceful and elegant "Mei School". The influence is far-reaching.
6. Liu Tianhua (1895-1932)
This century in the history of modern professional music development of national instrumental music masters, composers, music educators. A native of Jiangyin, Jiangsu Province, and the younger brother of the literary scholar Liu Bannong, Liu Tianhua was introduced to Western wind music in 1909, and in the course of teaching at his hometown high school in 1914, he studied erhu and pipa with the folk musician Zhou Shaomei in the south of the Yangtze River; he then studied a variety of folk instruments, recorded and organized folk scores, and entered into the realm of music composition; he was appointed to the Peking University Music Institute in 1922, and then worked part-time in the Beijing Women's Normal School, among other institutions. In 1922, he was appointed to the Music Training Institute of Beijing University, and later worked part-time at the Beijing Women's Higher Normal School. In 1922, he was appointed to the Music Mission of Peking University, and later worked part-time at the Beijing Women's Higher Normal School and other institutions. He accurately recorded Meilanfang's singing with five-line scores, and collected several kinds of precious folk music scores, which made him one of the most active people in the field of folk music creation and teaching at that time.
7. He Luting (1903-1999)
A representative of the anti-Japanese salvation movement in this century, He Luting was a composer and music educator. Composer and music educator. He was a native of Shaoyang, Hunan Province. After the founding of the People's Republic of China, he became the director of the Shanghai Conservatory of Music.
In 1934, when he was a student, he won the first prize and honorary second prize of the "Piano Pieces for Chinese Flavors" with his Piccolo for Shepherd Boys and Lullaby, in which Piccolo for Shepherd Boys was the first to successfully combine Chinese melody with Western polyphony, which attracted attention from the world.
Between 1934 and 1938, he composed 16 works for the Shanghai Conservatory of Music, which were the most important of his works. Between 1934 and 1938, he composed music for 16 movies, and some of his songs, such as "The Songstress of the End of the World", were widely popular.
8. Huang Zi (1904-1938)
A representative of professional music creation in the first half of this century, composer and music educator. A native of Chuansha, Jiangsu Province, Huang studied music at the Tsinghua School in Beijing in 1916. In 1924, he went to the United States to study, majoring in psychology and music, and returned to China in 1929 to teach at the National College of Music, where he was known for his rigorous and high-quality teaching, and for training a number of composers with a high level of professionalism, which is a great credit to China's modern history of music education. The oratorio "Long Hate Song" is the first work of this genre in China's modern music history, and the concert overture Repetition is the first symphonic orchestral piece to be acclaimed abroad.
9. Nie Er (1912-1935)
The flag-bearer of the "left-wing music movement" in this century, author of the national anthem, composer, a native of Yuxi, Yunnan Province. He loved music since childhood, and joined the Chinese ****productivity party in 1933, and was a main member of the "left-wing alliance". In less than three years of creative career, he left a number of valuable treasures for future generations. His compositions were mainly concentrated in the fields of mass songs and lyrical songs, with "March of the Volunteers" and "Forward Song" being the most important of the former, and "Singing Maiden Under the Iron Hoof" and "Singing Maiden Beyond the Seas" being the most prominent of the latter. He was the first composer in the history of China's modern music development who accurately and profoundly reflected the image of the proletariat in China.
10. Xian Xinghai (1905-1945)
A great people's musician and composer. Originally from Panyu, Guangdong, he loved music since childhood.
In 1930, Xian Xinghai went to France to study under the tutelage of famous composers such as Dandi and Dukas. He was admitted to the Paris Conservatory of Music, where he majored in composition and conducting, and during this period he composed the highly acclaimed "The Wind" and "The Song of the Wanderer", etc. In 1935, he returned to China and actively participated in the anti-Japanese salvation movement. In 1935, he returned to China and actively participated in the anti-Japanese salvation movement. His compositions truly reflected the life of the Chinese people in the 1930s and 1940s, when they were struggling to save the nation from national peril. He composed hundreds of songs such as "Guerrilla Army", "On Taihang Mountain" and "Yellow River Cantata".
11.Ma Sicong (1912-1987)
Famous composer and violinist, a native of Haifeng, Guangdong Province, he went to France in 1923 to study violin in Paris from Oberdorfer, and then enrolled in the violin class of the Conservatoire de Paris in Busseri. After the founding of the People's Republic of China, he became the director of the Central Conservatory of Music. He was persecuted during the Cultural Revolution and in November 1966 he moved to the United States. He is not only an outstanding violinist in China's modern music history, but also a famous composer, conductor and educator at that time. The violin piece "Pastoral" and other pieces laid the foundation of modern Chinese violin music.
12. Wang Luobin (1913 - 1996)
King of Western Songs, composer and collector of folk music. A native of Beijing, he went to Shanxi after the outbreak of the Anti-Japanese War in 1927, and then to Lanzhou in July 1938, where he carried out anti-Japanese singing activities. 1949 he joined the Chinese People's Liberation Army (PLA) and entered Xinjiang. In Gansu and Xinjiang, he had extensive contact with the music of various ethnic minorities in the northwest, and recorded and translated and matched a large number of Uyghur and Kazakh folk songs, such as "The Girl of Dasaka City" and "Half Moon Climbing Up", etc. Because of his deep and lasting roots in the northwest, he became a pioneer in developing the treasure trove of ethnic minority music in the northwest of China.
13. ZHU Shen'er (1922 - )
Chinese contemporary famous composer. He was born in Tianjin, studied in Shanghai, learned harmony with Qian Renkang and piano after school, studied in the USSR under Xie Balasanian in 1955, and returned to China in 1960. His creative power and variety of genres have made him one of the most popular artists in the world, and he is also known as "Zhu in the South and Luo in the North" together with Hydra. His songs "Crack Your Head" and "Sing a Mountain Song to the Party" have been sung all over the country. A large number of works, such as the folk music ensemble "The Day of Turning Over", "Narrative Poem "Sifan", orchestral "Festival Overture", etc., unique style, language, and is good at the symphonic music of the European traditional techniques, modern Western techniques and Chinese national style, the integration of the three, the acoustic effect of the unique, distinctive.
14. Luo Zhong (1924 - )
A renowned contemporary Chinese composer, a native of Santai, Sichuan Province, wrote his first work, "Over the Mountain, Yo Good Place," under the pen name of Pusa in 1947, which was a great success, and since then he has gradually switched to composing full time. His compositions are in various styles, mainly in the field of symphonic music, and he has accumulated a wealth of valuable experience through the fusion of different themes and genres, and the useful and bold exploration of borrowing traditional Western techniques and certain modern techniques and making them nationalized. His major compositions include the chorus "Send the Premier to the Ten Mile Street" and the folk music ensemble "Moonlit Night of Spring River Flowers".
15. Zhou Guangren (1928 - )
Famous Chinese female pianist and music educator of this century. Originally from Ningbo, Zhejiang Province, she was born in Hanover, Germany, and returned to China in 1935. she furthered her studies with Soviet pianist Tatullian at the Central Conservatory of Music in 1955, and won the prize at the first Schumann International Piano Competition in 1956, and has represented China on many occasions. Under his efforts and advocacy, the Xinghai Youth Piano School was established in September, 1983, targeting the youth of the society. In a short period of more than 10 years, the popularization and development of piano education in China was on the rise, and she was known as the "mother of Chinese piano education".
16. Wang Moet (1934-1997)
One of the most important composers of modern light music in China in this century, a native of Shanghai, was engaged in music composition at the Central Orchestra in 1964, making important contributions to the development of light music in China. He has composed music for films such as Little Flower, Cherry, The Corner Forgotten by Love, The Voice of Knowledge and The Girl in Red, etc. The music of the feature film Little Flower won the Best Music Award of the Third Hundred Flowers Film Awards. A large number of movie and TV drama interludes have become household names, such as "The Spring Water of the Border is Clear and Pure" and "Sister Looking for Brother with Tears in Her Eyes".
17.Shi Guangnan (1940 - 1990)
Famous composer, originally from Jinhua, Zhejiang Province, with a wide influence on songwriting, he wrote "The Most Beautiful Hymn to the Party" and "Playing the Tambourine and Singing the Songs" in the early 1970s, and then created "Premier Zhou, Where Are You" and "Toast Song" after 1976, etc. He went to the Beijing Central Orchestra in 1978, and wrote "The Best Song to the Party" and "The Best Song to the Party". After 1978, he went to Beijing Central Orchestra and wrote popular songs such as "The Grapes of Turpan are Ripe" and "On the Fields of Hope", which combined mass and artistry. At the same time, the famous opera "The Hurt Locker" was left.
18. The Creative Collective of the Opera "The White-haired Girl"
The members of the Creative Collective of the Opera "The White-haired Girl" consisted of the librettist He Jingzhi and Ding Yi, and the composers Marco, Zhang Lu, Qu Wei, Huanzhi, Xiangcun, Chen Zi and Liu Chih. On the basis of the rich experience of the new Yangge movement and the creation of Yangge opera, the opera absorbed and borrowed certain features of foreign operas and boldly made new creations. It is one of the earliest relatively mature large-scale new opera in China, with epoch-making significance.