Zhu Jianer

Zhu Jianer

Zhu Jianer (October 18, 1922 - August 15, 2017), male, Han nationality, his real name is Zhu Rongshi, and his character is puchen. He is a composer and musician from Jingxian County, Anhui Province. He was born in Tianjin on October 18, 1922 and grew up in Shanghai. He taught himself piano and composition in middle school. In 1945, he joined the front-line troupe of the Soviet Central Military Area of the New Fourth Army. In 1947, he served as the band leader and conductor of the East China military region's Art Troupe. After the founding of the people's Republic of China, he worked as a composer in Shanghai, Beijing and other film studios. Since 1949, he has been a full-time composer of Shanghai film, Beijing film, new film, Shanghai Opera House, Shanghai Symphony Orchestra, etc. In 1955, he went to the Soviet Union to study composition at Moscow Tchaikovsky Conservatory of music. In 1960, he returned to China after graduation and worked as a composer in Shanghai Experimental opera house. In 1975, he was transferred to Shanghai Symphony Orchestra and engaged in composition. In 1985, he was elected as the fourth executive director of China Musicians Association.

On August 15, 2017, he died of illness in Shanghai Ruijin Hospital at the age of 95.

Life of the characters

Born in Tianjin on October 18, 1922, he moved to Shanghai with his family since childhood. When I was in middle school, I became interested in music and taught myself piano and other musical instruments. In the late 1930s, he studied harmony with Qian Renkang, and went to the training class run by shirenwang to study the key and Button Accordion.

In 1945, he went to the northern liberated area of Jiangsu Province and successively engaged in music creation in the front-line troupe of the Central Soviet military region and the cultural and industrial troupe of the East China military region.

After the battle of Laiwu in 1947, it was composed into a song "good fight", which was widely sung among the army and people in the liberated area.

From 1949 to 1953, he composed music in Shanghai Film Studio, Beijing Film Studio and Central News recording film studio. He once played soundtrack for "the light of the earth" and "the storm of the sea".

In 1955, he went to the Soviet Union and studied composition under Professor balasanian of Moscow Tchaikovsky Conservatory of music. The piano Overture No. 1 "tell you" and No. 2 "running water" written during the period of studying abroad are concise in sound and meticulous in brushwork; the piano solo "narrative poem" (written for the one act ballet "think of the world") and "theme and variation" have strict logic in music development and rich harmonic technique. The former uses symphonic technique and sonata form, sharp in conflict and unrestrained in emotion, depicting the characteristics of music Little nun from the religious pressure to break away from the process of life.

In 1959, the first orchestral work "Festival Overture" was premiered in Moscow, and was recorded and collected as a permanent repertoire by the state radio of the former Soviet Union. Later, they performed in symphonies in Cologne, Nagoya and Norway.

The symphony "Poems of heroes" written in 1960 (the lyrics are selected from Mao Zedong's poems) has great momentum and gorgeous color. It also shows the author's ability in conception and technique, and has won high praise in the music field.

He returned to China in 1960, and began to work as a full-time composer in Shanghai Experimental opera house the following year. In the next few years, most of them created small vocal music genres. Among them, "taking over Lei Feng's gun" and "singing a folk song to the party" became popular songs at that time.

He has been in Shanghai Symphony Orchestra since 1975. The string ensemble nostalgia, written in 1978, is his first attempt to touch on tragic themes in symphonic music creation. The symphony Fantasia in memory of the warrior who died for the truth, which was completed in 1980, was written by Zhang Zhixin after two years of deliberation inspired by the tragic event of martyr Zhang Zhixin. This piece won the excellent award in the first National Symphony Music Awards in 1981.

In May 1982, the symphony suite Qianling sketch was performed for the first time in the 10th Shanghai Spring Concert.

The 1983 Symphony suite "sketch of Qianling" was performed by Swiss Radio Symphony Orchestra in Stockholm.

In 1984, he was invited to attend the second International Music Festival in Moscow. Symphony Fantasia was performed and recorded by the Ukrainian National Symphony Orchestra.

In 1985, he was elected as the fourth executive director of China Musicians Association.

In 1987, he was invited to visit Japan. The new symphony orchestra performed Naxi Yiqi, which was directed by the famous Japanese composer Akutagawa yemura.

In 1993, he attended the Sixth Symposium of Chinese composers and performed the quintet of folk music "he" in Taiwan.

In 1994, he completed the sixth, seventh and eighth symphonies and the little symphony in the United States.

In 1996, he attended the International Music Festival of Radio France 96 in Paris and played the Quintet "harmony".

In 2002, he attended the Hong Kong International Modern Music Festival and performed the lute and String Quartet jade.

In 2000, he went to Yokohama, Japan to attend "Asian modern music week" and perform "Symphony No. 8".

In May 2002, he published China's first collection of individual symphonies, Zhu Jianer's symphonies.

Character honor

In 1951, Symphony Fantasia won the first prize of national symphony works;

In 1960, the symphony, the chorus "the poems of heroes", was recorded and collected by the former Soviet national radio station as a permanent repertoire.

In 1990, Symphony No. 4 won the prize of "Queen Mary Hesse" international composition competition in Switzerland;

In 1990, it was listed in the biography center of Cambridge, England's "world music celebrities";

In 1991, he won the "outstanding contribution award" of Shanghai Literature and art individual;

In 1992, the first symphony won the special creation award of Chinese record company;

In 1994, the second symphony won the first prize of national symphony works;

In 1997, the Sixth Symphony won the elegant art award of Baosteel;

In 1997, the symphonic poem "the vicissitudes of a century" won the gold prize in the collection of music works for the return of Hong Kong and the "outstanding achievement award" of the fourth Shanghai Literature and art individual;

In 2001, he won the "lifetime Medal of honor" of the first China Music Golden Bell Award.

The death of a character

On August 15, 2017, Zhu Jianer, a famous composer and resident composer of Shanghai Symphony Orchestra, died of illness in Shanghai Ruijin Hospital at the age of 95. According to Zhu's will, there will be no memorial service and his body will be donated for medical research.

personal works

Orchestral music "Festival Overture", folk music ensemble "turning over days", String Quartet (one of which cooperates with Shi Yongkang), Oboe and Piano "song of spring", piano "five Yunnan Folk Songs", unaccompanied chorus suite "green water", solo "long voyage" and "clear memory", film creation music: "long live peace" and "dragon beard" "The great land reform" and the soundtrack of "eternal life in the fire". Songs such as good fight, singing a folk song to the party, taking over Lei Feng's gun, clear memory, etc. Folk Music Ensemble "turning over days", piano music "Prelude No.1" tell you "," Prelude No.2 "running water", Symphony Chorus "heroic poems", Symphony Fantasia "in memory of the warrior who died for the truth", Symphony suite "Qianling sketch", orchestral poem "Naxi Yiqi", "Symphony No.1", "Symphony No.2", etc.

artistic characteristics

As an extremely diligent composer, Zhu Jianer has left a successful record in many important music creation fields. His main works include ten symphonies and more than ten symphonies of other genres. His music works have profound ideological connotation and strong artistic appeal.

Zhu Lao's Symphony creation is based on the tradition, drawing lessons from the western techniques, creatively using the new music language in the modern artistic context, and endowing the traditional national culture with new ideological connotation. Zhu said: "the evolution of music creation from the common writing in the classical period to the individual writing in modern times is a progressive and inevitable trend. Almost every composer in the artistic exploration and artistic pursuit, strive to be original, find a new way, for their own to find a different positioning His own positioning is "inclusive, based on transcendence", which is embodied in "unity", including the unity of virtual and real, emotion and reason, spirit and form in musical thinking; the unity of tradition and modern, tonality and atonality, nationality and Internationality in writing techniques; the unity of self-discipline and heteronomy, subject and object, and advancement in aesthetic concepts Integration with acceptability. All "oneness" is opposed to each other. Based on the dialectical principle of unity of opposites and the principle of alternation of yin and Yang, I think that opposites can be integrated through mutual penetration, mutual benefit, mutual transformation, mutual complement. "Oneness" is not a mixture, but a combination, nor a simple 1 + 1 = 2, but a spiral rising "oneness". The two sides of "unity" are not equal, but have a variety of "formula" and "smelting method", which also distinguish the different characteristics of each work. "Unity law" can also have the unity of rigor and freedom, the unity of deliberate and random, the unity of certainty and uncertainty, the unity of order and disorder It is flexible, not mechanical; it is constantly changing, not unchangeable; it is open, not closed; it is a style of music, not a school or system.

Character evaluation

Ye Xiaogang (president of China Musicians Association): Mr. Zhu Jianer is the most comprehensive composer in China so far, and also a model of the young generation. His tireless pursuit, including ideological and artistic, he began to compose symphonies at the age of 60, and created a total of 10 Symphonies. In his early years, he also created many popular and influential works. He came back from Moscow and created "festival prelude", "song of spring", including "taking over Lei Feng's gun" and "singing a folk song"

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