Lin Shicheng

Lin Shicheng

Lin Shicheng (1922-2005), male, Han nationality, from Nanhui, Jiangsu Province, is a Pipa player. After 1956, he became a professor of the Central Conservatory of music. He is the author of pipa playing method.

Senior professor of Central Conservatory of music, President of Pipa Research Association.

Character experience

Pipa player. Jiangsu Nanhui (now Shanghai) people. He learned folk musical instruments with his father when he was young. He learned from yangzhengxuan Pipa score and inherited the pipa playing skills of Pudong school. He graduated from the Chinese Medical College in 1941 and then practiced medicine in Shanghai. After 1956, he became a professor of the Central Conservatory of music. His works include pipa playing method, Pipa music score and Pipa teaching method. He is the founder of new China's national music education, an outstanding national music educator and theorist, a famous Pipa performer and composer, the sixth generation master of the "Pudong school" of Chinese pipa, a senior professor of the Central Conservatory of music, a member of the Performing Arts Committee of the Chinese Musicians Association, a member of the National Music Committee, and the president of the pipa Research Association

Mr. Lin Shicheng died in Beijing at 16:20 p.m. on December 6, 2005 at the age of 83.

Enter the music world

In 1923, he was born in Shimian Town, Shanghai, and he was also a master of Pipa music. At the age of 6, he began to learn to play pipa, erhu, Sanxian, Yangqin, Jinghu, Xiao and other musical instruments with his father. At the age of 12, he was familiar with the well-known traditional eight person music of Jiangnan Silk and bamboo, and was able to play "happy song" and "mansanliu" with others. After graduating from China Medical College in Shanghai in 1941, Mr. Shen Haochu, the fifth generation master of the "Pudong faction", accepted him as the only pupil. He also became the sixth generation of the Pudong school's orthodox school, who was the essence of the Pudong school. At the same time, under the encouragement of Shen Shi, he successively learned from Mr. Wu Mengfei, Mr. Fan Shaoyun, and Mr. Wang Yuting, the "Pinghu school" and the "Chongming school". He had a good Qin friendship with Mr. Yang Shaoyi and sun Yude, learned from others' strong points and made a successful family.

In the 1940s, Mr. Lin Shicheng was a famous Pipa player in the south of the Yangtze River. He was a consultant or music director of the Chunqiu national music club, Shanghai National Music Research Association, and the national band of Shanghai First Medical College. He played live on the radio every weekend. In the early days of the liberation of Shanghai, he performed "student exercises" created by him at the inaugural meeting of the Shanghai Federation of trade unions, which was a sensation. In 1948, he adapted "mother-in-law and daughter-in-law fight" and "Autumn Thoughts", and began to compose Pipa music. Many young students came to seek art. Ye xuran, Liu Dehai, Li Guohun and others were the first group of students.

Turn to music

At that time, Mr. Lin Shicheng was already a famous doctor in Shanghai. He was good at treating many difficult and miscellaneous diseases, especially gynecological infertility. Fu Lei, Liu Haisu and other celebrities have been looking for him to see a doctor for many years. He has a rich income and a rich family. But Mr. Lin Shicheng said, "there are thousands of good doctors. I'm the only one who can pass on master Shen. I can't let Pudong school be cut off from me." he has long set up his ambition of "abandoning medicine and becoming happy.". In 1956, the Central Conservatory of music invited him to teach in the north. He resolutely closed his own clinic. From then on, he devoted his whole life, body and mind to Pipa and to the cause of Chinese national music education.

After arriving at the Central Conservatory of music, Mr. Lin Shicheng was one of the only four folk music teachers at that time, and also the only Pipa teacher. He alone undertook all the pipa teaching work of the college's universities, middle schools and affiliated primary schools, and compiled various teaching materials such as gongchi notation, pipa playing method, Pipa score, etc. In order to enrich Pipa teaching materials, he assiduously studied folk music from all over the world and adapted them into Pipa performance score. He has collected and edited nearly 100 folk music such as "lotus in dripping water", "Fisherman's music" and "Lotus out of water". He is the first person to systematically compile Pipa teaching materials in history.

Conformity school

In his "pipa playing method" published in 1958, Mr. Lin Shicheng objectively introduced 8 unknown Pipa schools and 12 Pipa scores of different styles from the perspective of Pipa theory for the first time. He also named the performance group based on Wang Yuting's score as "Wang School", which is still in use today. It is a systematic summary of the research of new China The first person to study the traditional Pipa school system.

Mr. Lin Shicheng is the first person in the history to use the staff to record the score of Pipa performance. According to western music, he wrote 150 basic Etudes and skills of 12 key numbers suitable for Pipa performance. At the same time, he tried western composing techniques to write Pipa scores such as "Caiyun Zhuoyue" and "guangmingxing", and created modern Pipa music such as "song of Haihe", "unrestrained", "hide and seek". He was the first person to promote the integration of Pipa art and western music in New China.

Mr. Lin Shicheng is committed to improving the production level of Pipa and formulating a unified production style and standard. He believes that the production of national musical instruments should be completed jointly by performers and instrument makers. He has profound theoretical cultivation and rich practical experience in this field. Later, he wrote the book Pipa production (in cooperation with Gao zhanchun), which is the first one in the national appraisal of Pipa production skills Refers to the authority of.

In 1958, according to the decision of the Central Conservatory of music, Mr. Lin Shicheng opened Jiangnan Silk and bamboo ensemble course. Because he was proficient in playing pipa, erhu, Sanxian, Yangqin, Jinghu, Xiao and other musical instruments, his teaching was very handy. He has compiled more than ten kinds of Jiangnan Silk and bamboo music, the performance score of each instrument, and is the first person in the teaching of national instrumental ensemble in China.

Training students

In addition to ye xuran, Liu Dehai and Li Guohun, he trained Kuang Yuzhong, Chen Zemin, Wu Junsheng, Cheng Junming, pan Yabo, Li Wenying, Xu Zhengying, Wu Baojuan and other students at that time, who later became the backbone of Pipa art in New China. Without Mr. Lin Shicheng at that time, the pipa art career in China would be a different situation.

In the late 1950s, Mr. Lin Shicheng had planned a relatively systematic and complete blueprint for the development of Chinese Pipa and even national vocal music. He should have entered the heyday of his career in his prime of life. However, with the deterioration of the national political situation, his career has undergone severe tests and his life has gone through tribulations. In 1960, he was suspended for so-called historical issues and left his teaching post. In 1963, his family moved back to Shanghai. In order to make ends meet, his wife, Zhu Qihua, with three women and a son, has moved cabbages, sold sweet potatoes, swept the streets, brushed the toilet and sold popsicles. When it was hard to help, Zhu Qihua also sold blood many times. In such a difficult poverty, Mr. Lin Shicheng never gave up the pursuit of national vocal music art, endured the great pain of arthritis attack in extreme poverty, arranged and compiled the yangzhengxuan Pipa score written by Mr. Shen haochu on the very poor paper, went through the hardships to promote the publication of the book, and gave all the contributions to Mr. Shen's widow.

Sorting out ancient genealogy and reforming teaching materials

During the "Cultural Revolution", under extremely difficult conditions, Mr. Lin Shicheng sorted out and wrote the performance scores of traditional music, such as yangzhengxuan Pipa score, Ju Shilin Pipa score and Chen Zijing Pipa score, and carried out the rescue work that others could not replace. He wrote the first draft of Chinese musical form, Pipa teaching method, Pipa etudes, etc., and compiled or transplanted the selected songs of 36, dance of youth, suwu shepherd, Shandan blossoming red, dance drama Red Detachment of women, white haired girl, etc. He also taught in Guangzhou Conservatory of music, Sichuan Conservatory of music and Shanghai Conservatory of music. Until 1979, he returned to Beijing Central Conservatory of music to teach.

After returning to school to teach, Mr. Lin Shicheng also trained students at home and abroad, such as Lin Jiaqing, Zhou Lijuan, Hao Yifan, Qu Wenjun and Zhang Hongyan. He has published 30 lessons of pipa, Pipa teaching method, noisy and miscellaneous talks - Professor Lin Shicheng's Pipa record and other works, published dozens of papers, and recorded dozens of records and audio-visual teaching materials, such as "missing spring", "Jiangnan Sizhu", "the world's first Pipa Lin Shicheng", "left finger chanting", "Mr. Lin Shicheng's explanation and demonstration of 18 Pipa masterpieces". In 1987, in the first Jiangnan Silk and bamboo competition at home and abroad, the silk and bamboo group of the Central Conservatory of music under his guidance won five championships. In 1992, in the second Jiangnan Silk and bamboo competition at home and abroad, the silk and bamboo group of the Central Conservatory of music under his guidance won the first prize in the performance award.

After his prime of life, Mr. Lin Shicheng's pipa playing skills are no less perfect than those of that year. Since 1982, he has demonstrated his superb performance skills in Wuhan Southern film expert demonstration concert, Jinan northern film expert demonstration concert, Hong Kong China Music Festival, China Art Festival, Taiwan special performance, European Community tour, Singapore Chinese Music Festival, and performed many times in the United States, Japan and other places. At the age of 80, he also participated in the concert of "love in Beijing Concert Hall" in 1998, the concert of Shanghai Peach Blossom Festival in 2001, and the performance of the closing ceremony of China Pipa competition in Ningbo in 2001, which was praised at home and abroad. After he fell ill in the spring of 2003, his right hand was paralyzed for a time. With the perseverance that ordinary people can't imagine, he carried out rehabilitation exercises and recovered his performance level. Later, he performed in Taiwan and also achieved great success. In his words, "if I can't play the piano, I will die!" Mr. Lin Shicheng has won the Golden Bell award of Chinese music for life and the national teaching achievement award, as well as "excellent teacher", "gardener Award" and "table Award" for many times

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