Who is Liu Beimao?

Liu Beimao (193-1981), alias Shou Ci, was born in Jiangyin, Jiangsu Province, and was a famous modern erhu player, composer and educator. The son of Liu Baoshan, a scholar in the late Qing Dynasty, was brothers with Liu Bannong, a poet, and Liu Tianhua, a musician. Liu Beimao is a loyal inheritor and developer of Liu Tianhua's career. After Liu Tianhua's death, he inherited his brother's legacy of "improving Chinese music" and successively composed more than 1 erhu performance pieces, such as Hanjiang Tide, Little Flower Drum and Liufang Qu. He is a prolific composer in the history of modern music in China and is known as the "master of national music".

Chinese name: Liu Beimao

Alias: Liu Shouci

Nationality: China

Nationality: Han nationality

Birthplace: Zhangjiagang, Jiangsu

Date of birth: 193

Date of death: 1981

Occupation: musician, educator

Graduate school: Due to the early death of his parents, he grew up under the care of his elder brothers (Liu Bannong, the eldest brother, and Liu Tianhua, the second brother). Under the careful guidance of Liu Tianhua, he mastered the playing skills of many Chinese and foreign musical instruments in his early years, especially the national musical instruments such as erhu and pipa. Liu Beimao showed his musical talent when he was a teenager. In 1927, Liu Beimao graduated with honors from the English Department of yenching university, and later engaged in the teaching and research of Selected Readings of Shakespeare's Works, Poetics and Composition Guidance in Shanghai Jinan University, Peking University and Northwest Associated University. After Liu Tianhua's death, in order to inherit his legacy of "improving Chinese music", Liu Beimao insisted on teaching and research of English for literary majors, and at the same time, he made more efforts to learn national musical instruments such as erhu and pipa, and began to create music. His erhu solos, such as South of the Han Dynasty, March, Song of a Wanderer, and Little Flower Drum, sincerely and profoundly expressed the righteous intellectuals' love for the motherland and the people and their hatred for the enemy under reactionary rule. During the ten years of turmoil, although he suffered from it, with great enthusiasm and perseverance, he wrote a song "Remembering" that deeply missed the proletarian revolutionaries of the older generation, "A Melody of Legends" by beloved Premier Zhou Enlai, and "Welcome to Zhaohui" that enthusiastically praised the construction of the four modernizations. In his 4 years of hard work, he has always insisted on inheriting the excellent tradition of national music and absorbed and used foreign music culture for reference. More than 1 of his works have distinctive national style and innovative spirit.

His works are as simple and sincere as his personality. Although Mr. Liu Beimao has left us, his excellent qualities of pursuing truth, progress, being courteous to others, being rigorous in his studies and striving for the cause of national music will always be worthy of our study and commemoration.

The Road to Art

Liu Beimao has a good memory and strong imitation. He studied English in a missionary school in primary school, and later became a famous linguist with Lv Shuxiang. He taught English in our school when he was in high school. He was admitted to Soochow University in 1923, and then admitted to yenching university as a transfer student. At the age of 29, he became an English professor in Peking University, and he was a famous expert on Shakespeare studies.

After Liu Tianhua's death, Liu Bannong said to him, "The second brother's children are still young, and there are not many students who have lived up to expectations. It seems that you should inherit the second brother's career." Since then, Liu Beimao has changed to music. In 1935, in commemoration of the 3rd anniversary of Liu Tianhua's death, Liu Beimao performed ten famous songs of Liu Tianhua, which surprised everyone.

After the "July 7th Incident", Liu Beimao was encouraged to be a senior secretary in the puppet Ministry of Education. He angrily denounced him and resolutely refused to work for the Japanese, saying that he was ill and would not attend classes. After going through hardships, I made a detour to Hong Kong, Yunnan and other places, and went to Chenggu, Shaanxi, an important position of anti-Japanese culture in northwest China. At the invitation of Mr. Xu Shoushang, a close friend of Lu Xun, I taught at Northwest United University. This feat of Mr. Liu shows his lofty national integrity and patriotic sentiments.

In the late period of the War of Liberation, the reactionary regime of Nanjing Kuomintang was tottering, but it was still unwilling to quit the historical stage. Instead, it intensified its cruel rule over the broad masses of people. Under this circumstance, Mr. Liu Beimao resolutely supported and actively participated in the progressive teachers and students' rehearsal of the folk music ensemble "Spring Dawn in the Cuihu Lake" by the people's musician Nie Er, with progressive and revolutionary music sweeping away the decadent sound of the music industry in Nanjing at that time, and at the same time giving great spiritual encouragement to the people in struggle. In April of the same year, the "April 1" tragedy occurred in Nanjing, and the reactionary regime of the Kuomintang brutally suppressed the revolutionary actions of progressive students. Mr. Liu Beimao went to the residence of progressive students who were expelled from school, shook hands and gave a condolence performance, regardless of his personal safety. These actions show Mr. Liu Beimao's noble character of clear love and hate. This is by no means an impulse, but a logical necessity for him to inherit the ideological interests of his elder brother, Mr. Bannong, and Mr. Tianhua, constantly pursue progress and hate the development of darkness.

While hating the reactionary rule of the Kuomintang, Mr. Liu Beimao showed great love for the China Communist Party and its revolutionary cause and the new China. As early as the eve of the victory of the War of Liberation, he looked forward to Prometheus of China, and was full of longing and great confidence for the inevitable victory of the China * * * production party and the China revolution. After the founding of the People's Republic of China, Mr. Liu Beimao was even more elated. His music creation, erhu performance and music education in by going up one flight of stairs, with his passionate love and inexhaustible artistic talent, sang praises to the China * * * production party, the new China, the revolution and construction, and the industrious and intelligent people of China. During the Cultural Revolution, Mr. Liu Beimao also showed noble personality and valuable qualities. On the one hand, he refused to expose the so-called "problems" of leaders and colleagues. On the other hand, despite the impact and persecution, he still firmly believed that the social situation at that time was only a temporary phenomenon, and the bright future of social stability would surely come. He firmly believes in the party, the people, seeking truth from facts and never selling himself for glory. He encouraged and urged himself with the ideological realm of "not afraid of floating clouds covering his eyes, only being at the highest level".

Mr. Liu Beimao is a music educator. He taught music and educated people all his life, and loved life as a child. He not only edified students with art, but also paid more attention to shaping their personality. He educates students, not only by words and deeds, but also by example. In the atmosphere of emotional blending and mutual affinity, he subtly cultivates talents in music education, research and performance. Mr. Liu first concentrated on training formal students. He has been engaged in music education for 3 years and has trained a large number of outstanding music talents. In particular, blind musicians such as Gamberlin and Yan Shaozhang have been trained, and their training process and the hard work of their husbands often move people to tears. In educating students, Mr. Liu focuses on emotional people, physical and chemical people, and artistic shaping people. Every time he teaches a piece of music, he always explains the background, theme, melody, characteristics and techniques of the music, etc. When students practice and return to class, he always gives patient guidance and persuasion, so that students can lay a solid foundation step by step and pay attention to cultivating their creativity. Not only that, Mr. Liu pays more attention to educating people with emotion.

During his teaching in Anhui, it was three years of economic difficulties. His old man not only educated students, but also often gave them food and clothing subsidies to help them buy necessary instrumental materials, which relieved their urgent needs in their studies. He often dragged his sick body and walked with crutches, looking for students to attend classes in his home on campus, which moved the students to feel ashamed and regretful, and made great efforts from then on, and later became an excellent music talent.

Mr. Liu is more responsive and caring to amateur music lovers, and has made and trained a large number of music lovers, some of whom even become professional musicians. It is particularly commendable that Mr. Liu Beimao takes advantage of holidays to give extra lessons to students, or make up lessons for students, or give guidance to amateur music lovers. Not only does he never take anything, but he often provides them with tea, candy and meals. This professional spirit, which takes teaching music and educating people as its first duty, seems to be more vigorously publicized and carried forward in the process of building socialist spiritual civilization today. There are countless students educated by Mr. Liu Beimao, who have become the academic leaders and backbone of China's music industry, and many of them have become organizers and counselors of mass cultural activities. This has cultivated musical talents for the development of China's national music industry.

major works

In p>194, Liu Beimao published the world-famous erhu songs such as Hanjiang Tide, March Exercise and Song of a Wanderer. These works profoundly reflect the times of War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression and the tragic and vigorous struggle spirit of the broad masses of people.

In p>1942, on the way from Shaanxi to Sichuan, Mr. Liu Beimao composed Erhu music "Riding the Wind and Waves", which reflected the author's great ambition and firm belief at that time.

during the spring festival in p>1943, Mr. Liu beimao was in the mood. In one go, he created the erhu song "Little Flower Drum". Through the description of children's joyful songs and dances during the Spring Festival, the song expresses the author's optimistic feelings in a difficult environment. After the founding of the People's Republic of China, Mr. Liu Beimao has obtained a broad historical stage and unprecedented superior creative conditions for music creation, and his artistic realm has been continuously sublimated. His music creation is not only excellent, but also more mature in theme and art.

in p>195. Mr. Liu composed the Erhu Opera "Peasant Music", which is the first work presented by the author to New China. Since then, Mr. Liu's spirit has multiplied, and his talents have gushed, and he has successively created more than 2 erhu songs such as Happy Dance Music, The Sun Shines on the Frontier of the Motherland and Happy Songs.

from p>1958 to 1971, during his secondment to teach at Hefei Art College and Anhui Normal University, Mr. Liu composed many erhu solos and dozens of erhu songs for children, such as Beautiful Baohe, A Thousand Miles of Huaibei Race to the South of the Yangtze River, and Huangshan Waterfall.

from p>1971 to 1981, Mr. Liu Beimao returned to Beijing from Anhui. Despite his illness, he kept writing, and successively composed Erhu songs such as Memorizing the Great Achievements of proletarian revolutionaries of the older generation, such as Premier Zhou, and Welcoming the Morning Glory, which praised the socialist modernization. Mr. Liu Beimao composed more than 1 erhu works in his life, and the above list is only his representative works in various periods. These masterpieces of Mr. Liu are important links in the history of Chinese music development, and they are also bright artistic pearls in the treasure house of Chinese culture.

research books

In p>1957, Music Publishing House published Collection of Erhu Creation Songs (Liu Beimao's Songs)

In p>196, Anhui People's Publishing House published Beautiful Baohe (Liu Beimao's Songs)

In p>22, People's Music Publishing House published Collection of Liu Beimao's Memories (written by Liu Yuxi)

In p>23, it was published by National Defense University Press. Collection (by Liu Yuxu)

In p>24, People's Music Publishing House published Liu Tianhua's Musical Career (by Liu Beimao)

In p>211, People's Music Publishing House published Liu Beimao's Centennial Birthday Commemorative Anthology (by Liu Yuxi and Feng Guorui)

Family Profile

Liu Sanjie

Brother Liu Bannong (. A famous writer, linguist and educator. At the same time, he is the founder of Chinese language and photography theory. His "Experimental Record of Chinese Phonetic Characters" won the "Constanyine Special Prize in Linguistics". He is the first linguist in China to win this international prize.

Brother Liu Tianhua (1895-1932), formerly known as Shouchun, is a pioneer, composer, performer and educator of modern national music in China and a master of modern national music in China. In the history of Chinese music, he was the first to use western staff records to sort out folk music and boldly learn from "western music" to improve Chinese music. He not only composed immortal songs such as Yin in a Sick Patient, Liangxiao, Birds in an Empty Mountain, Guangming Xing, but also was the founder of the professional erhu school in the history of modern music in China, and for the first time, he included ethnic musical instruments such as erhu, pipa and flute into the curriculum of higher music education. He is an innovator of national musical instruments, extending the traditional erhu from three positions to five positions, making the expressive force of erhu reach an unprecedented situation; Reform the four-phase ten-tone pipa into six-phase eighteen-and-a-half-tone, and make the pipa become a universal musical instrument with twelve-tone average rhythm. Give new life to these two ancient national musical instruments.

during the historical span of more than 6 years from the may 4th movement to the 198s, the three Liu brothers have been advancing wave after wave, constantly pursuing progress, and working hard to promote and develop the national culture of the motherland with the spirit of being scientific and realistic, which embodies the noble character of outstanding intellectuals and artists in China. Their immortal achievements have won people's respect and love, and they are known as the "three outstanding men" of the Liu family in Jiangyin.

children

Mr. Liu Tianhua's eldest son, Liu Yuyi, deputy chief engineer of Beijing Construction Bureau and a famous structural expert in China;

The second daughter, Liu Yudun, is the editor of Shanghai Institute of Electrical Apparatus Science, and her son-in-law is Shao Sheng, a doctor studying in the United States and a first-class professor at Shanghai Jiaotong University;

Liu Yujing, wife Cheng Wei, professor of Academy of Military Medical Sciences;

Liu Yuxi (1938-), male, violin professor of orchestral department of Central Conservatory of Music, master tutor and violinist. One of the first generation violinists trained by New China successfully held the first recital of China musicians in August 22 in Vienna, music city and Vilnius, the Lithuanian capital. Over the years, after busy teaching, I have persisted in the exploration and development of Chinese violin art;

Liu Yulun (192-), alias Wang Jingxuan, graduated from the Department of Electrical Engineering of National Southwest Associated University in 1944. He used to be a technician (technical assistant) in Kunming Repair Institute of Telecommunication Machinery Factory of the Ministry of Military Affairs, a public engineer of Xijing Power Plant and a public engineer of Jibei Electric Power Company. After 1949, he served as deputy engineer and engineer of North China Electric Power Administration and Northeast Electric Power Administration, Suzhou Nuclear Power Research Institute of Ministry of Water Resources and Electric Power, and engineer of Nuclear Power Bureau of Ministry of Water Resources and Electric Power. As a professor-level senior engineer. Since 1993, he has enjoyed the special allowance issued by the State Council. In 21, he joined the China Producer Party. And his sister Liu Yudun are twins.

Character evaluation

Liu Beimao is one of the founders of Liu Tianhua Erhu School, the most direct and outstanding inheritor and developer. From the untimely death of Liu Tianhua in 1932 to the 196s, Liu Beimao made contributions to Erhu teaching, performance and creation, and played a role in connecting the past with the future and filling the historical gap for this school and Erhu art career. Liu Beimao should have an indispensable and brilliant chapter in the modern music history of China. He is the "Van Gogh" of China's music industry. The value of his artistic achievements is far from being recognized by us. With the passage of time, his research work will be deepened and his brilliance will become more and more apparent. Some scholars vividly say that Liu Beimao's works are like a Dunhuang art treasure house that has just been opened, and the dazzling musical wealth needs people to know and appreciate. Mr. Liu Beimao said before his death: "Music and musicians first serve people who don't engage in music." This is the portrayal of the most precious civilian music thought and humanistic spirit throughout Mr. Bei Mao's life, and he is a well-deserved generation of national music masters.

Mr. Liu Beimao has been engaged in the creation, performance and education of national instrumental music all his life and made outstanding contributions. Mr. Liu is a man of high wind.