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He Luting
Composer and music educator from Shaoyang, Hunan, a pupil of Huang Zi, whose piano piece The Shepherd Boy's Piccolo took first prize in Tcherepnin's 1934 competition.
Mural of the cultural record “Chinese Works for Western Instruments”, which this person is tied to.
Also known as He Baozhen · He Kai
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He Luting, also named Kai and styled Baozhen, was born in Shaoyang, Hunan, in 1903. He entered the arts course of Yueyun Middle School in Changsha in 1923 and in 1931 was admitted to the Shanghai music conservatory, where he studied composition with Huang Zi. In 1934 his piano pieces The Shepherd Boy's Piccolo and Lullaby won first prize in Alexander Tcherepnin's competition for piano music in a Chinese style, and the former became a classic of Chinese piano writing. He also wrote the songs Song of the Four Seasons and The Wandering Songstress for the film Street Angel, and the orchestral pieces Senjidma and Evening Party. From 1949 he headed the Shanghai Conservatory. He died of illness in Shanghai on 27 April 1999.
Life and times
Dates 1903–1999