Wang Luobin

Wang Luobin

Wang Luobin (December 28, 1913 - March 14, 1996) is a Chinese national musician born in Beijing. His name is Rongting and his name is Luobin. In 1934 (the 23rd year of the Republic of China), he graduated from the Music Department of National Peking Normal University (Beijing Normal University). In 1938 (the 27th year of the Republic of China), Wang Luobin adapted the Xinjiang folk song "the girl of Dabancheng" in Lanzhou. After that, he had an indissoluble bond with the Western folk songs, and devoted his whole life to the creation and dissemination of Western folk songs, known as "the father of Northwest Folk Songs" and "the king of Western songs".

In September 1988, Wang Luobin was awarded the Chinese people's Liberation Army Victory Medal. In 1991, he was entitled to special government allowance. The main works are in that distant place, half moon climbing up, girl of Dabancheng, lifting your veil, alamohan, under the silver moonlight, etc.

Life of the characters

Wang Luobin was born on December 28, 1913 (the second year of the Republic of China) in an oil painter's family in a tile gray courtyard in Yihua Hutong, niujiaowan, Dongcheng District, Beijing. His great grandfather was a native of Zhejiang Province. He made a living selling tea eggs in Shaoxing, Zhejiang Province, and then moved to Beijing. My grandfather is an influential folk artist. He is famous for painting in Beijing. He also likes music very much. He forms a family band to entertain himself. Under the influence of his family, his father, Wang Dezhen, could play, play and sing anything. His mother, Wang, had three sons and three daughters, whose children were distributed in Beijing, Shanghai, Hebei, Yunnan, Heilongjiang and Xinjiang. In September 1919 (the eighth year of the Republic of China), he studied in Beijing "Beijing Eight Banners children's primary school" (the former left wing inlaid white flag school, which was founded in the 20th year of Guangxu of the Qing Dynasty, was renamed 13 times, and finally was renamed Chunyu Hutong primary school in Dongcheng District of Beijing). The principal was Zhang Anguo, and the sixth grade class director was Cheng Zhenshan. In the summer of 1927 (the 16th year of the Republic of China), his father Wang Dezhen sent Wang Rongting, who had been ill since childhood, to Beijing Tongzhou Luhe middle school. In the autumn of that year, Wang Rongting took part in the Christian church choir, and Wang Rongting, who was very talented in music, soon became the leader of the choir. In June 1928 (the 17th year of the Republic of China), his father, who worked as a staff member in the army quilt factory of the national government, died of illness. During the summer vacation, Wang Rongting went to Harbin to report his sister's funeral. When he was working as a train connection worker at Hengdaohezi station on Harbin middle east railway line, he got to know SEK, jinjianxiao, shamun and other artists, and learned to play "Qixian Qin" qidal (or "guitar" with SEK. This musical instrument is called old Russian Qixian Qin, which was first translated by SEK into Chinese). SEK was his guide and Enlightenment to enter the palace of art. At that time, Wang Rongting was influenced and influenced by the works of Russian musicians living in Heilongjiang, such as gored Shijing, trahetenberg and gershgorina. In the autumn of the same year, SEK appreciated Wang Rongting's persistence, perception and spirituality in music. Wang Rongting was invited to compose theme songs and Interludes for the drama "beigui" written, directed and performed by himself. At the end of the year, Wang Rongting composed music for the first poem "beyond the sea" in Seke's poetry anthology "Purple song". At the same time, Wang Rongting and Seke also co wrote "xibazar nocturne". In 1931 (the 20th year of the Republic of China), after the September 18th Incident, Wang Luobin, under the leadership of the CPC Beiping Municipal Committee (the underground party), participated in the 129th South demonstration and petition group of students from Beijing Normal University and Peking University. After graduating from Beijing Tongzhou Luhe middle school, he was recommended to study in the Art Department of Peking Normal University in September. His piano teacher is gubuke, a German, his vocal music teacher is count horowat Nikolay Sadovsky, a Russian aristocrat, and his composer is Wang Dezhao, who returned from studying in Paris. Wang Rongting received orthodox music education from them, which laid a solid foundation for his later music creation. In the same year, Wang Luobin wrote the episode "the love of slaves" for Xiao Jun's novel the countryside in August, which is Wang Luobin's first work. At the same time, he began to use the name of Wang Luobin. At 2 pm on November 27, 1932 (the 21st year of the Republic of China), Wang Rongting and more than 2000 teachers and students of Beijing Normal University listened to Lu Xun's speech "re discussing" the third kind of people "in the open-air square of Beijing Normal University and accepted patriotism. In the summer of 1933 (the 22nd year of the Republic of China), Xu Zhimo's poem "travel around" was composed into a song. Later, he dedicated the song to his girlfriend, Roxanne. In 1934, he studied in the Music Department of the Central Conservatory of music. In the summer of 1936 (the 25th year of the Republic of China), he was employed as a music teacher in Beijing jingsui railway rotary middle school, a school for children of railway employees outside Xizhimenwai. Entrusted by the headmaster of the school, he wrote the song of Zhan Tianyou for the students. The rotary middle school near Xizhimenwai, the temporary residence of Northeastern University, is not far from the swimming pool. Wang Rongting, who loves swimming, often swims with the students of Dongda. Every day, he listens to "village in August" by Baishi bridge, the dock where Empress Dowager Cixi released her boat outside Xizhimen, old Beijing. In July, Wang Rongting tutored and taught progressive songs such as "International Song" and "folk pioneers song" for progressive students of universities and middle schools in Beijing urban area. In 1937 (the 26th year of the Republic of China), after the qilugouqiao incident, he went to Shanxi to join the northwest battlefield service group of the Eighth Route Army and joined in the Anti Japanese and national salvation movement. He wrote Anti Japanese songs such as "hometown on the battlefield", "song of Fenglingdu", "laundry song" and so on. In March 1938 (the 27th year of the Republic of China), he moved to Xi'an and published more than 30 Anti Japanese war songs written by Wang Luobin in the field songs. In May, Wu Xiuquan, director of the Xi'an Office of the Eighth Route Army, went to Lanzhou with five people, including seck, Xiao Jun, Zhu Xingnan and Luo Shan, to participate in the "Northwest Anti Japanese War Troupe" in Lanzhou, and went to Gansu and Qinghai to publicize the Anti Japanese war. Adaptation of "Dabancheng girl", "Youth Dance", "Rainbow Sister", "Manli" and other folk songs. After that, Wang Luobin and Luoshan were introduced by the front General Political Department of the Eighth Route Army to the northwest battlefield service group led by Ding Ling in Xian Wan'an town of Hongdong, Shanxi Province. At this time, Wang Luobin and Xiao Jun met, as well as writers Xiao Hong, Ouyang shanzun, Liu Baiyu and He Luting, Nie Gannu, Zhou Weizhi, Duanmu Hongliang, Ding Ling's lover Chen Ming. During this period, a group of songs, such as songs of the war of resistance, were composed by Luo Ke. In October, Wang Rongting arrived in Kaifeng, Henan Province, and married Du Mingyuan, a student of Beijing Academy of Arts, whom he met when he was in Beijing University Choir. He was introduced to Xi'an by Du Mingyuan's father, Du Jizeng, and then to the front headquarters of the Eighth Route Army in Liucun, Linfen, Shanxi Province by Xi'an Eighth Route Army Office. For the convenience of the journey, Wang Rongting changed his name to Wang Luobin, and Du Mingyuan changed his name to Luoshan. In 1939 (the 28th year of the Republic of China), he made the film "long live the motherland" in Xinjiang and met sayejoma. After that, he created and adapted folk songs in Qinghai, such as "in that distant place", "half moon climbing up", "Mayra". In 1940 (the 29th year of the Republic of China), he worked as a music educator in Xining. He was responsible for the establishment of "Qinghai children's Anti Japanese War Troupe" and composed Anti Japanese war songs such as song of the desert, song of sending Lang to war and March of Muslim youth. In 1941 (30 years of the Republic of China), Luo Shan proposed to terminate the engagement. After that, Wang Luobin went to prison for the suspicion of the Communist Party and spent three years in Lanzhou prison. In prison, he wrote more than 20 prison songs such as faba bean ballad, I love my cell and sleeping on the Gobi desert. In the end, Ma Bufang, then chairman of the KMT in Qinghai Province, wrote a letter to protect him. In May 1944 (the 33rd year of the Republic of China), he was rescued from prison and returned to Qinghai to continue to engage in music education. Adaptation of "Alam Khan", "a lovely rose", "yilala", "qumandi" and other folk songs. In 1945 (the 34th year of the Republic of China), he married his wife Huang Yulan in the countryside of Xining, and later gave birth to three sons. In September 1949, he joined the Chinese people's Liberation Army in Xining and entered Xinjiang with the army in the same year. He has successively served as deputy chief of the literature and art section of the Propaganda Department of the first corps of the first field army of the Chinese people's Liberation Army, chief of the literature and art section of the Political Department of the Xinjiang Military Region, music composer of the Xinjiang Military Region song and dance troupe, art Consultant of the Xinjiang Military Region song and dance troupe, etc. In Zhangye, he and General Wang Zhen co wrote the chorus song "song of triumph into Xinjiang". In December, he served as the chief of the literature and art section of the Xinjiang Military Region, compiling the latest songs of the Soviet Union, and adapting Xinjiang folk songs such as where the camel team came from, I don't want to wipe the mud off my shoes, and under the silver moonlight. In June 1951, at the request of the Xinjiang Military Region, Wang Luobin was arrested by the Beijing Municipal Public Security Bureau. In winter, his wife Huang Yulan died in Beijing. In February 1952, the military law office of the Xinjiang Military Region sentenced him to two years of hard labor on the grounds of spreading rumors and long-term overstaying. During his service, he completed the composition of the drama "harvest" and wrote a number of songs. After his release in August 1954, he worked as a music teacher and composer in the art troupe of the second army of Kashgar in southern Xinjiang. Adaptation of "Elaeagnus angustifolia flower", "round", "beauty on the eyebrows" and dozens of other folk songs. In 1957, he was transferred to music teacher and composer of the art troupe of Xinjiang Military Region. He participated in the creation of operas the course of battle and no man's village. In 1958, he participated in the creation of opera "two generations" and musical drama "follow Chairman Mao step by step". In the same year, he was selected as an advanced literary and artistic worker of the whole army. In 1960, Wang Luobin was sentenced to 15 years' imprisonment and deprived of political rights for 2 years in Xinjiang

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