Notable people
3 peopleFigures with the most linked events, works and records.
Performers
Musicians
Musicians known for playing, singing and teaching music
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Mural guide
On a flat rock above a waterfall, a seven-string zither and a bamboo flute lie on a spread of blue-green cloth; beyond, a waterfall pours into a churning teal pool among misty peaks, with pine branches arching at the top left.
Musicians are people known for playing instruments, singing and teaching music, including court and folk instrumentalists, qin players and singers. Their reputation rests on performing skill and is recorded in histories, poems and anecdotes. They differ from composers in excelling at playing and singing, and from stage performers in not mainly performing drama and dance.
People in this role
- Bo YaDates unknown; traditionally of the Spring and Autumn period
- Gao JianliDates unknown; active c. 227 BCE, killed after attempting to assassinate the First Emperor after 221 BCE
- Li YannianBirth date unknown; died c. 101 BCE by one account
- Cai Yong132 CE–192 CE
- Zuo YannianDates unknown; active under Cao Wei (220–265 CE)
- Ji Kang223 CE–262 CE
- Ruan XianDates unknown; late Wei to early Jin
- LuzhuDied around 300, in the time of Sima Lun's power; birth year unknown
- Huan YiBirth year unknown; died 391
- Dai KuiBorn c. 331 CE (uncertain)–396 CE
- SengbianBirth date unknown; died 493 CE
- Dong TinglanDates uncertain; lived c. 695–765
- Li GuinianDates unknown; active from Emperor Xuanzong's reign to the Dali era
- Zhou Bangyan1056 CE–1121 CE
- Li ShishiActive at the end of the Northern Song, from the Chongning and Daguan years to the Jingkang years
- Tian WeiDates unknown; appointed music director of the Dasheng Bureau at the end of the Zhenghe era (c. 1117–1118)
- Guo MianDates unknown; active in the Southern Song, c. 1195–1207
- Gu JianDates unknown; lived in the Zhizheng reign at the end of the Yuan
- Leng QianDates unknown; appointed music director in 1367
- Zhu Quan1378–1448
- Gong Jing1456 CE–1528 CE (from genealogy research)
- Amannisa KhanDates disputed; by one account 1526–1560
- Wei LiangfuDates unknown; active at Taicang in the Jiajing reign, his Nanci yinzheng bearing a colophon of 1547
- Yang LunDates unknown; active in the Wanli reign (c. 1589–1609)
- Su KunshengDates unknown; active in the late Ming and early Qing
No people in this role for that dynasty.