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Liu Yaozhang

Pipa player of Shanghai's Datong Music Society who in 1925 arranged the pipa piece Xiyang xiaogu as the ensemble work Chunjiang huayue ye.

Liu Yaozhang was a pipa player whose family came from Yin county in Zhejiang. As a boy in Shanghai he studied piano, violin and cello, and he learned the pipa from Wang Yuting. A leading member of the Datong Music Society run by Zheng Jinwen, in 1925 he arranged the pipa piece Xiyang xiaogu for Chinese ensemble as Chunjiang huayue ye, the score on which the society's orchestra was built. In 1927 he prepared a pipa version of Yue'er gao from the Hua family tablature and premiered it at a Datong concert that year. His son is the violinist Liu Hexun. He died in 1996.

Life and times

  1. 1905 CEBornQingRepublican EraModern Era
  2. 1919Reforming Chinese MusicThe Datong Music Society, whose leading figure was Zheng Jinwen, Liu Tianhua's Society for the Improvement of Chinese Music and the Jinyu Qin Society, founded in Suzhou, carried traditional instrumental music into modern study, arranging and teaching.
    1. Zheng Jinwen Founds Datong Music Societyc. 1919age 14Around 1920 in Shanghai, Zheng Jinwen turned his Qinse Society into the Datong Music Society, devoted to reviving Chinese music and training its performers.
  3. 1996 CEDied

Works

  1. Stage · Pieces1
    1. Spring River in the Flower-Moon Night1925 (ensemble arrangement at the Datong Music Society)Liu Yaozhang's 1925 ensemble arrangement of an old pipa piece, titled by Zheng Jinwen of the Datong Music Society.

Connections

  1. Shared events1
    1. Zheng Jinwen1872 CE–1935 CE