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Sheng Lihong
Composer from Wuxing, Zhejiang, long a teacher at the Central Conservatory and later a Central Philharmonic composer, who led the orchestration of the Yellow River Piano Concerto.
Mural of the cultural record “Chinese Works for Western Instruments”, which this person is tied to.
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Sheng Lihong was born in Wuxing, Zhejiang, in January 1926. He graduated from the National Music Academy in 1947, taught at the Central Conservatory of Music from 1949 to 1963, and from 1963 was a composer in the creative group of the Central Philharmonic. In 1969 he joined the group that wrote the Yellow River Piano Concerto; as its senior member he led the orchestration and walked along the Yellow River with the others to gather material. He later worked to register the concerto's copyright and saw its full score and two-piano score reissued by the People's Music Publishing House in 1999. He died of illness in Beijing on 13 May 2022, aged 96.
Life and times
Dates 1926–2022