Peng Xiuwen

Peng Xiuwen

Peng Xiuwen (February 7, 1931 - December 28, 1996), born in Wuhan, Hubei Province, is a Chinese composer and conductor.

In 1950, he joined the literature and art group of southwest people's radio. In 1953, he became one of the first performers of the National Orchestra of the Central People's broadcasting station, playing erhu and pipa, and also served as the leader of the folk music sorting group of the group. In 1954, he was appointed as the responsible conductor of the central broadcasting national orchestra, and began to conduct. In 1957, he led the central broadcasting national orchestra to participate in the sixth World Youth and student peace and friendship Festival and won the gold medal of the group. In 1963, he created the folk music ensemble Yanshan late autumn. In 1973, he was appointed deputy head of the central broadcasting national orchestra. In 1979, he composed symphonic poem "running water" and Erhu Concerto "unyielding Su Wu". In November 1980, he led the China Radio National Orchestra to visit Japan. In 1981, he was employed by the Hong Kong Chinese Orchestra as a guest conductor. In 1982, he led the Chinese broadcasting national orchestra to Hong Kong to participate in the 7th Hong Kong Asian Art Festival.

In 1984, he created the National Orchestra "terracotta warriors and horses". In 1986, he served as the judge chairman of the Hong Kong Outstanding Young musical instrument competition; in August, he worked with Park Dongsheng, Qin pengzhang and others to build the Chinese National Orchestra Association and served as the president of two terms. In 1987, he served as guest conductor of the Chinese Orchestra of the Singapore People's Association (later renamed as the Singapore Chinese Orchestra); in the same year, he was rated as a national first-class conductor. In 1990, he directed the China Radio National Orchestra to record the album "moonlit night on Spring River", which won the "golden record" award of China National Record Corporation. In 1992, he won the "golden Record Award special conductor Award" of China Record Corporation. In May 1996, he conducted the performance of Kaohsiung National Orchestra and finished his farewell performance of stage career. On December 28, Peng Xiuwen died.

Early experience

As a result of his father's love, Peng Xiuwen has been influenced by national musical instruments since he was a child, and has been influenced by Chinese traditional musical culture. In 1939, he began to learn erhu under the guidance and Enlightenment of his fifth uncle Peng Jiaxin. Later, he studied Pipa and violin from Liu Zelong and he Yiqun. Two years later, he can play a variety of national musical instruments.

In 1944, he studied in Jiangjin national No.9 middle school, Sichuan Province, and studied under the guidance of Qu Anhua, an erhu performer and educator. In 1946, when studying in Qiujing Commercial College in Chongqing, he participated in the performance activities of the National Orchestra of the local radio station.

Character experience

In 1950, he was employed by the literature and art group of southwest people's Radio and began his music career. In 1953, the National Orchestra of the Central People's broadcasting station was founded. Peng Xiuwen became one of the first performers of the orchestra, playing erhu and pipa. At the same time, he served as the leader of the group's folk music sorting group. In the same year, he was the leader of Pipa in the performance of "Moonlight on the Spring River".

In 1954, together with Zeng Xun, he was appointed as the responsible conductor of the central broadcasting national orchestra, and began to conduct. In the next three years, he adapted five band works: Bubugao, general's order, Yao dance music, Huahaoyueyuan and Axi tiaoyue. In 1956, he performed the erhu solo on the grassland by Pu Dongsheng for the first time.

In 1957, as the band leader and conductor, he led the central broadcasting national orchestra to participate in the sixth World Youth and student peace and friendship festival held in Moscow, participated in the instrumental ensemble competition, and won the group gold medal. In the following three months, he toured more than 40 times in the Soviet Union and visited 14 cities, such as Leningrad and Kiev. In the same year, according to Tchaikovs, he performed in the Soviet Union Ji's work adapted the folk music ensemble "four little swans dance".

In 1959, he adapted "the day of turning over" (Zhu Jianer), "Chinese Rhapsody" (Xian Xinghai), "falling flowers and flowing water" (LV Wencheng), and "Jiao Shi Ming Qin", created "country party", "Celebrating the new year" and "qinxianglian", and started the initial attempt of national orchestral symphony in "qinxianglian".

In 1960, he created the South China Sea morning song and thousand sails disturbing the sea. In 1963, he created the folk music ensemble late autumn in Yanshan. In 1970, with the central broadcasting national orchestra, it was transferred to the May 7th cadre school in Huaiyang, Henan Province. During this period, it adapted the version of red light in Henan Yuediao according to Beijing opera.

In 1972, he cooperated with Zhai Huiquan to create paigu and the band "Celebrating the harvest" (later "Celebrating gongs and drums"), and in the same year, he created suona and the band "happy to send the harvest grain".

In 1973, he was appointed as the deputy head of China Radio National Orchestra; in the same year, he adapted erhu and band "Er Quan Ying Yue" (Hua Yanjun), Guan Zi and band "Jiang He He". In 1974, Li Huanzhi's work Spring Festival Overture was adapted.

In 1979, he composed the symphonic poem "running water" and Erhu Concerto "unyielding Su Wu"; in the same year, he was appointed as the deputy head of China Radio National Orchestra again. In November 1980, at the invitation of the Japan Broadcasting Association, he led the Chinese broadcasting national orchestra to visit Japan for five performances in 10 days.

In 1981, he was employed by the Hong Kong Chinese Orchestra as a guest conductor; in May of the same year, he served as artistic director and conductor of the National Orchestra of the China Broadcasting arts Corporation. In 1982, he created "Lingshan fanbei"; in the same year, he led the China National Radio Orchestra to Hong Kong to participate in the 7th Hong Kong Asian Art Festival. In April 1983, he served as head and conductor of China Radio National Orchestra.

In 1984, he created the National Orchestra "terracotta warriors and horses". In 1986, he served as the judge chairman of the Hong Kong Outstanding Young musical instrument competition; in August, he worked with Park Dongsheng, Qin pengzhang and others to build the Chinese National Orchestra Association and served as the president of two terms.

In 1987, he was the judge of the 6th Chinese music competition in Singapore; in the same year, he was the guest conductor of the Chinese Orchestra of Singapore People's Association (later renamed as Singapore Chinese Orchestra); in the same year, he was rated as the national first-class conductor.

In 1990, he directed the China Radio National Orchestra to record the album "moonlit night on Spring River", which won the "golden record" award of China National Record Corporation. In 1991, he was entitled to special government allowance.

In 1992, he won the "golden Record Award special conductor Award" of China Record Corporation. In 1993, he was invited to conduct the Fukuoka citizen Orchestra in Japan. In 1994, he conducted the China broadcasting national orchestra to hold four concerts in Singapore's Victoria concert hall, with the titles of "Chinese phonology", "reminiscence of the past in Jinling", "colorful music" and "music journey"; in the same year, Hong Kong BMG records released Peng Xiuwen's "complete works" series album.

In March 1996, he conducted a concert of China broadcasting national orchestra in memory of Liu Mingyuan; in May, he conducted a performance of Kaohsiung National Orchestra, which was also a farewell performance of Peng Xiuwen's stage career; on December 27, he was appointed music director of Hong Kong Chinese Orchestra; on December 28, Peng Xiuwen died.

Main works

Creative works

adapted works

Source of the above works:

Music Album

Creative features

adapted works

Peng Xiuwen's creative feature is to adapt and create at the same time. His adapted works account for two-thirds of the total creation. "Making the past serve the present" and "making foreign things serve China" are the main features of Peng Xiuwen's adapted works. For example, "moonlit night on the Spring River", "high moon", "running water drill" and "general order" are all national orchestral works adapted from ancient music. Through the adaptation, the work retains the characteristics of the original melody, complete structure and rich style, and injects fresh blood to make it take on a new look. The four little swans, picture exhibition, Carmen suite, ruins of Athens and other works are adapted and transplanted with Western orchestras. In the process of adaptation, Peng Xiuwen endows the original works with more creative factors in harmony, musical form, orchestration and so on.

Creative works

The musical interest shown in Peng Xiuwen's works shows his profound Chinese musical heritage and composing talent. His works give out Chinese sound and use Chinese vocabulary, which integrates profound Chinese traditional, classical and folk music. Peng Xiuwen is good at learning from the western composition techniques. He has studied the music and composition techniques of various periods in the West. For example, "August" in his "December" suite absorbed the Impressionist technique and adopted the whole scale, continuous major third, minus fifth and major second parallel.

Peng Xiuwen's model

"Peng Xiuwen model" is a concept widely used in the academic circles to explore the construction of national bands since the 1990s. According to the classification of traditional instrumental music in the late Qing Dynasty, Peng Xiuwen explored and practiced the sound source structure suitable for the characteristics of Chinese national music on the basis of Traditional Orchestra mode. After that, the national orchestras set up basically borrowed more or less from the "Peng Xiuwen model".

Command style

It is one of the characteristics of Peng Xiuwen's command to "enter music with emotion and convey emotion with music". He believes that "if a performer can't understand a work, he can't be in love. If he doesn't play in love, he will lose the artistic appeal and can't resonate with the audience." Therefore, when rehearsing new works, especially some ancient songs, he always introduces the background and content of the works to the performers to deepen their understanding of the works. For example, during the rehearsal of "saishangqu", he told the story of Wang Zhaojun and Cai Wenji, and made some harmony in some paragraphs of the music

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