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Liang Hanguang
Composer from Kaiping, Guangdong, born Liang Ronglin and a pupil of Xian Xinghai, who rescored the opera The Red Leaf River and wrote the opera Wang Gui and Li Xiangxiang.
In a palace music hall, a frame of tiered bronze chime bells hangs from dragon-carved beams, with one person standing with their back turned holding two mallets before it; a large red drum and a rack of red knotted cords stand to the left and a stone chime to the right, in evening light.
Also known as Liang Ronglin · Liang Yuheng
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Liang Hanguang, born Liang Ronglin and also once known as Liang Yuheng, was born in 1917 in Bojian village, Yueshan, Kaiping, Guangdong. He studied in the music department of the Lu Xun Academy of Arts under Xian Xinghai. In 1947, after seeing Ruan Zhangjing's opera The Red Leaf River at Yetao, he rearranged its music and greatly improved the melodies; his new score was rehearsed that December and performed seven times in Shijiazhuang. In 1950 he wrote the opera Wang Gui and Li Xiangxiang, and his other works include Cradle on Horseback, theme song of the film Ah, Cradle, and the song Grandpa Makes Mooncakes for Me (1979). Over his life he wrote more than two hundred songs, more than ten operas and over thirty film scores. He died in 1989.
Life and times
Dates 1917–1989