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Peng Xiuwen
Composer and conductor from Wuhan, long the conductor of the Central Broadcasting Chinese Orchestra, who wrote or arranged over 400 works for Chinese orchestra, including Harvest Gongs and Drums
Mural of the event “Gathering the Folk Music”, which this person took part in.
In 1950 the Institute of Folk Music of the Central Conservatory was issued an imported portable wire recorder. On the evening of 2 September that year the Wuxi folk musician Abing recorded the erhu pieces Moon Reflected on the Second Spring, Listening to the Pines and Cold Spring Wind at the Sansheng Pavilion beside Gonghuayuan park, and three pipa pieces the next day; he died on 4 December. From 1 to 14 April 1953 the Ministry of Culture held the first National Folk Music and Dance Festival in Beijing, where more than three hundred folk artists gave over a hundred items, among them ensembles, a transverse-flute solo and folk wind music. That spring the Central Broadcasting Folk Orchestra was formed, built on four sections: bowed strings, plucked strings, winds and percussion.
Peng Xiuwen was born in Hankou, Wuhan, Hubei, in 1931. He joined the Chongqing People's Broadcasting Station in 1950, and from 1953 was conductor and composer of the Central Broadcasting Chinese Orchestra. At the sixth World Festival of Youth in Moscow in 1957 he led the orchestra in his own arrangements, including Golden Snake Dance and Moon over the Mountain Pass, and won a gold medal; he later became the orchestra's artistic director and a guest conductor of the Hong Kong Chinese Orchestra. Over four decades he composed or arranged more than 400 works for Chinese orchestra: original pieces such as Harvest Gongs and Drums (with Cai Huiquan), the symphonic poem Flowing Water and the fantasia Qin Terracotta Warriors, and arrangements such as Spring River Flower Moon Night and Dance of the Yao People. He is counted among the founders of the modern Chinese orchestra. He died in Beijing in December 1996.
Life and times
- 1931 CEBorn
Republican Era
Modern Era - 1950Gathering the Folk Music
Took partage 19In September 1950 Yang Yinliu recorded six pieces by Abing in Wuxi; in April 1953 the Ministry of Culture held the first National Folk Music and Dance Festival in Beijing, and that spring the Central Broadcasting Folk Orchestra was formed.- Central Broadcasting Folk Orchestra Formed1953age 22In spring 1953 the Central Broadcasting Folk Orchestra was formed, built on four sections: bowed strings, plucked strings, winds and percussion.
- Central Broadcasting Folk Orchestra Formed
- 1996 CEDied
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