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Ma Ke
Composer and musicologist from Xuzhou, a co-composer of the opera The White-Haired Girl and author of the yangge play Husband and Wife Learn to Read and the opera Little Erhei's Marriage.
Mural of the cultural record “National Opera”, which this person is tied to.
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Ma Ke was born in Xuzhou, Jiangsu, in 1918. After studying chemistry at Henan University, he entered the music department of the Lu Xun Academy of Arts in 1939 to study composition. Collecting northern Shaanxi folk songs and yangge, he wrote the yangge plays Husband and Wife Learn to Read and Zhou Zishan, was one of the composers of the opera The White-Haired Girl, and later wrote the opera Little Erhei's Marriage, the orchestral Northern Shaanxi Suite, the Luliang Mountains Cantata and the song Nanniwan, shaping the new Chinese opera. He later headed the opera department of the Central Academy of Drama and edited a music journal. He died in July 1976.
Life and times
Dates 1918 CE–1976 CE