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An Bo
Composer and folk-music scholar, author of the song Yongjun huagu and the yangge play Brother and Sister Clear the Wasteland, compiler of East Mongolian folk songs and arranger of Gada Meilin.
Mural of the cultural record “Mongolian and Northern Peoples' Songs”, which this person is tied to.
Also known as Born Liu Qinglu
- Roles
- Composers
An Bo, born Liu Qinglu in Muping, Shandong, in 1915, also wrote as Xiandi and Mousheng. In 1938 he entered the music department of the Lu Xun Academy of Arts in Yan'an and went on to write songs and study folk music. He set new words to the northern Shaanxi tune Da huangyang as Yongjun huagu and created the yangge play Brother and Sister Clear the Wasteland with Wang Dahua and others. He compiled collections of Qinqiang music and East Mongolian folk songs, and the four-stanza Chinese text of the Mongolian narrative song Gada Meilin sung today is his arrangement and translation. He later headed the China Conservatory of Music and died of illness in Beijing in 1965.
Life and times
- 1915 CEBorn
Republican Era
Modern Era - 1965 CEDied
Works
Stage · Plays1- Brother and Sister Clear the WastelandFirst performed at the 1943 Spring FestivalFirst staged in Yan'an at the 1943 Spring Festival, and called the first of the new yangge plays
- Stage · Songs1
- Gada Meiren1930sA long Mongolian narrative song of Horqin, transcribed and set to four Chinese verses by An Bo