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Ma Sicong
Violinist, composer and music educator from Haifeng, Guangdong, trained in France, whose Suiyuan Suite of 1937 contains the enduring violin piece Nostalgia.
Mural of the cultural record “Chinese Works for Western Instruments”, which this person is tied to.
Ma Sicong was born in Haifeng, Guangdong, on 7 May 1912. He went to France in 1923 to study the violin, entered the Paris Conservatoire in 1928, and returned to France in 1931 to study composition with Binembaum. Back in China in 1932, he founded a private music academy in Guangzhou with Chen Hong. In 1937 he wrote the Suiyuan Suite, also called the Inner Mongolia Suite, whose second movement is the violin piece Nostalgia; other works include Lullaby, the Tibetan Tone Poem and Madrigal. In December 1949 he became the first president of the Central Conservatory of Music. He spent his last years in the United States and died in Philadelphia on 20 May 1987; in 2007 his ashes were reburied in Guangzhou.
Life and times
Dates 1912–1987