Lei Zhenbang

Lei Zhenbang

Lei Zhenbang (1916-1997), from Beijing. Manchu. From 1955 to 1980, the most famous film musician in New China composed more than 100 representative works of film songs, including "Liu Sanjie", "five golden flowers", "visitors on the iceberg", "Lusheng love song", "Daji and her father" and "jinyuji", "Dong Cunrui", "Malan blossom", "Huahaoyueyuan", "jihongchang", "xiaoziren" and "red, orange, green, blue and purple" 》And more than 40 classic music works. Since childhood, I have loved Beijing Opera and folk tunes, and I can play erhu. He studied composition in Japanese higher music school, and became a middle school teacher after returning to China. He has been the composer of Beijing Film Studio and Changchun Film Studio, the third director of China Musicians Association and the fourth director of China filmmakers Association. Member of China Democratic League. He is a member of the sixth CPPCC National Committee. There is a selection of Lei Zhenbang's songs.

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Lei Zhenbang (1916-1997), a famous composer of film music in China, was a national first-class composer. He once served as director of China Musicians Association, director of China filmmakers Association, vice president of China Film Music Association and member of the sixth CPPCC National Committee.

Life of the characters

Childhood

In May 1916, Lei Zhenbang was born in Beijing, a Manchu. Because of his rich family life, he came into contact with Beijing opera at a very young age. When I was seven or eight years old, I could hum short passages of Peking Opera, play Peking Opera and some songs with huqin.

In September 1928, Lei Zhenbang came to Shenyang Fengtian public school to study in primary school, and then entered Nanman middle school. Under the influence of the music teacher, Lei Zhenbang learned to play harmonica well, joined the school harmonica team and became the conductor of the team. He often changed some songs into Harmonica Ensemble and conducted performances.

Study in Japan

In January 1939, Lei Zhenbang went to Japan to study. In Tokyo, he entered the preparatory course of composition department of Japanese higher music school. In less than half a year, Lei Zhenbang completed his preparatory major. The president allowed him to skip the grade, and the next year he became an undergraduate student of composition department.

In 1942, he graduated from the composition department of Japanese higher music school in Tokyo.

First work

In 1943, Lei Zhenbang returned to his motherland and worked as a music teacher in Beiping women's middle school and Huizhong women's middle school. After the victory of the Anti Japanese War, he organized an amateur Symphony Orchestra of more than 50 people after class. Lei Zhenbang adapted the ancient Chinese music "Elegy" into an orchestral piece for amateur Symphony Orchestra to perform. This is Lei Zhenbang's first work in public.

Enter the film world

In June 1949, Lei Zhenbang came to China Film Orchestra to work as a professional composer, and since then he has entered the film industry.

In April 1955, Lei Zhenbang was transferred to Changchun Film Studio as a composer. Since then, his creation has entered a new stage. In more than 30 years, he composed more than 100 movie songs. He insisted on going deep into life, learning from folk artists, and created a large number of music works with vivid image, beautiful lyric, strong national and local color and fragrant life, which formed the unique artistic style of his works. For example, the music he composed to reflect the life of ethnic minorities, such as "five golden flowers", "Third Sister Liu", "visitors on the iceberg", "Jingpo girl" and "Lusheng love song", all have the above musical characteristics.

In 1960, in the second hundred flowers award, he won the best music award for the composition of the film Liu Sanjie. Later, his music for the films "visitors on the iceberg", "Ji Hongchang" and "xiaoziren" won the best composition award in the first and second "little Hundred Flowers Award" held by Changchun Film Studio in 1964 and 1980 respectively.

Labor reform

In 1968, Lei Zhenbang and his wife were assigned to Dongfeng County of Jilin Province for "labor reform". It was the catastrophe of the "Cultural Revolution" that changed Lei Zhenbang's way of life and became a "son of a bitch" overnight. Composer Lei Zhenbang's "string" is broken. Although he can make a "song of justice" to prove his innocence, it is nothing more than casting pearls before swine in the age when human beings and demons are hard to separate.

At the end of 1970s, Lei Zhenbang's artistic life came to an end.

Personal evaluation

In fact, some people like all kinds of music, such as Jay Chou, whose dongfengpo shows his talent from melody to lyrics, "who is playing a dongfengpo with the pipa, the years are peeling off on the wall. When I saw him as a child, I still remember that we were very young that year, but now the sound of the piano is quiet, and you haven't heard of my waiting"; although when he sang, some people said it was like radish, and his words were muddy And Han Hu, but the expression of every musician is different. Sometimes casual singing seems to be more able to truly reflect the rich inner world of modern young people who are cool on the surface. What's wrong with all kinds of styles and blooming flowers. For example, some of the main melody songs and singers are also popular, such as "my motherland", "Qinghai Tibet Plateau" and "Tianlu". Every time you hear these music, your heart gets unprecedented washing and shock, and a kind of patriotism makes people feel high and excited.

But there is a musician, from his works to his personality, to his rigorous attitude towards life, creation and constant pursuit of music, who is worthy of people's admiration and respect. He is Lei Zhenbang, a famous Chinese film music master. Speaking of his movie music, no one knows, until now to hear his song, "miss my comrades in arms", will be tears, no exaggeration. On the iceberg, when the soldiers froze to death on the border, they still hold their rifles tightly in their hands, and the passionate melody with the flavor of Xinjiang Tajik nationality is ringing repeatedly out of the air, full of grief and heartache, and full of infinite nostalgia and memories. "Ah, dear comrades in arms, you can no longer listen to me play the piano and listen to me sing" -- it's so touching. Therefore, some people commented on Lei Zhenbang like this, saying that if he did not have strong feelings for his comrades in arms and that kind of heart splitting experience, it would be impossible for him to write works that are so close to his heart. For another song "Why are the flowers so red" in "visitors on the iceberg", the level of music interpretation is more rich in emotion. When everyone sings it, they will have different understanding and feelings with their own mood.

His classic old songs, Liu Sanjie shook off her clear voice and sang, "you can't sing as much as I do. I have 18000 baskets, only because of the flood that year, folk songs blocked the nine rivers. (all in one) "my heart is very happy and incisive. The three sour scholars invited by master Mo have just dropped their voices, and the voices of the villagers come from all over the world. That kind of momentum is really exciting, so how much China needed this kind of music at that time. Lei Zhenbang created a folk song with such beautiful melody and strong flavor of life by making use of Guangxi's unique national melody and through his own hard refining and processing.

The diary of his life records what he is doing all the time, most of which is collecting wind, arranging and composing music. From 1955 to 1980, he composed more than 100 film songs, including more than 40 film music works, such as "Liu Sanjie", "five golden flowers", "visitors on the iceberg", "Lusheng love song", "Jingpo girl", "Daji and her father" and "Jin Yuji", "Dong Cunrui", "Malan blossom", "Huahaoyueyuan", "Ji Hongchang", "xiaoziren", "red, orange, green, blue and purple" . It involves the styles of Bai, Zhuang, Yi, Lahu, Tajik, Korean and other ethnic minorities, resulting in the birth of a large number of vivid, beautiful and lyrical music works, which are popular and deeply loved by the masses. Lei Zhenbang was born superior and wealthy, but he always believes that music comes from life. His music is full of unique artistic charm because of his melodious folk songs. In countless days of collecting folk songs, he trekked through mountains and rivers, went through all kinds of bad weather and natural disasters in the border areas, and never gave up his pursuit of music. He went to the most remote mountain areas to find folk singers to drink and sing songs, just to record the melody of the minority music that will be lost day by day. His attitude towards art and music is incomparable to many musicians.

Most incisive music gobble down his music only when he listened to his works; only a great many works of music began to spread from decades ago to the present, and he is still enduring; he only injected the soul of music into films, and brought fresh characters into the hearts of the people; only he spent his whole life to show the essence of China's music and art. Come out and pass on. Although he has left, he and his music will live forever in the hearts of the people.

Work evaluation

Lei Zhenbang's most famous works are visitors on the iceberg and Liu Sanjie.

"Liu Sanjie" won the best music award of the second "popular film" Hundred Flowers Award in 1960. It was shown abroad, and also received by Premier Zhou Enlai. It is the first musical scenery art film of new China. It is set in the Lijiang River, which is like a dream, and accompanied by beautiful folk songs, which makes the ancient legends full of unique artistic charm. The film's strong comic color and local flavor have been warmly praised by the audience at home and abroad. Qiao Yu, a ci writer, made tens of thousands of poetic and philosophical lyrics, which are still so wonderful and moving. "The wind blows, the clouds move, the sky does not move, and the water pushes the boat to the shore. Cutting lotus roots with a knife, chopping the river with an axe, singing, full of aftertaste of folk songs and experience of life. Lei Zhenbang made use of Guangxi's unique national tunes to create a beautiful melody after his own hard refining and processing

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