Liu Tianhua profile-Liu Tianhua profile Liu Tianhua resume Liu Tianhua-personal profile Liu Tianhua, Jiangyin, Jiangsu. China, a master of Chinese music, an outstanding composer, performer and music educator of national musical instruments in China, combined Chinese and western music, and paid equal attention to theory and art, and died in Beijing. During his study in Changzhou Middle School, 65438-0909 participated in the training and performance activities of the school military band and began to get in touch with western brass music. 19 1 1 During the Revolution of 1911, Liu Tianhua returned to Jiangyin, joined the "Anti-Manchu Youth League" military band 19 14, and taught music in Jiangyin and Changzhou middle schools successively. 19 15, father died, unemployed and ill, still learning erhu by himself. It was at this time that the debut erhu song "Yin in Disease" was created. In the second year, he was hired as a music teacher by Jiangsu No.5 Middle School, where he organized two bands, the Silk and Bamboo Department and the Military Music Department. During this period, he devoted himself to learning erhu from Zhou Shaomei, a folk musician in the south of the Yangtze River, and all the performances of Yingzhou Ancient Tune of Chongming Pipa from Shen Zhaozhou. I even used my summer vacation to go to Henan to learn guqin from experts, looking for artists along the way and collecting folk music everywhere. During the May 4th Movement, Liu Tianhua devoted his life to improving the level of national music. Under the influence of democratic ideas such as "civilian education" and "civilian literature", he opposed music becoming a "toy for nobles" and proposed that music should "take care of ordinary people". He cherishes the tradition of China folk music, but does not approve of sticking to the residual "national quintessence". He believes that to develop national music, "on the one hand, we should adopt the inherent essence of our country, on the other hand, we should accommodate foreign trends and create a new Liu Tianhua from the harmony and cooperation between the East and the West-Liu Tianhua's father Liu Baoshan is an intellectual and educator with new ideas. He cooperated with others to establish a new primary school in Jiangyin.

Inspired by his father, Tianhua studied in this new school since childhood, so he was exposed to many new western ideas. Tianhua has a strong interest in music since he was a child. He often attends temple fairs and religious music performances in his hometown. Through the contact with these music, he learned a lot about local folk music, especially the silk and bamboo in the south of the Yangtze River that spread in Jiangsu and Zhejiang provinces. At this time, he had a preliminary view on erhu. After graduating from primary school, I entered Changzhou Middle School, joined the school's military band, learned the bugle and flute, and got a preliminary understanding of some concepts of western music, such as music theory and staff. 19 12 Liu Tianhua 17 was admitted to the band of Shanghai Ming Kai Drama Club, which is a new drama club. There, he studied a wide range of western musical instruments, besides wind instruments, he also studied piano and violin, and was exposed to western composition theory. 19 14, Ming Kai Drama Club was dissolved, and Tianhua returned to Jiangyin and Changzhou as a music teacher, and began his music teaching career. When Liu Tianhua was a teacher in Changzhou Middle School, he formed a military band and a silk and bamboo band in the school, and often performed in the folk, with remarkable achievements. Later, Zhou Shaomei, a famous silk and bamboo artist in the south of the Yangtze River, was invited to guide him, and Liu Tianhua learned erhu and pipa from him. After that, he went to Nanjing to study pipa with Shen Zhaozhou, a famous scholar in Pudong, and then went to Henan to study guqin. At this point, Tianhua has more deeply felt the exquisite and elegant side of China traditional music. During this period, he further studied various traditional folk music. He often explores and studies folk music and Buddhist music with his friend Che Chen, who is familiar with music. Later, he organized a national music research institute in Jiangyin to study erhu, pipa, bamboo slips and gongs and drums with local national music.

1922, Liu Tianhua went to Beijing to teach in Peking University Music Research Association, and met musicians Xiao, Yang Zhongzi and Liu Tianhua. During this period, he studied violin with Russian professor Tonov and achieved good results. The study of violin gave him a good start to improve the huqin, and he further studied western composition methods, especially western and acoustics. During this period, he also made further research on China traditional opera. In addition, he organized an organization to study Kunqu Opera at home, studied and studied with students from Peking University and Women's Normal University, and learned Sanxian Opera from time to time, which was of great help to his future composition. Because Liu Tianhua can deeply study Chinese and Western music, and can integrate Chinese and Western music creation, and has made some achievements. Liu Tianhua-personal chronology1909-191year: when I was studying in Changzhou middle school, I joined the school military band and studied191year: after the Revolution of 1911, From this time on, I started my music work. 1912 ——1914: went to Shanghai to participate in Huxi Ming Kai Drama Club and served as a band. During Liu Tianhua's introduction, he studied various western musical instruments, such as orchestral instruments and piano, and studied Liu Tianhua's introduction, especially brass instruments, many of which were further studied. 19 14: The drama club was dissolved and returned to China to teach at Huacheng Primary School. 1915: I lost my father in the spring of 2008, and I was in a bad mood. I went to the city to buy an erhu and played it every day. I used it to produce the first draft of the melody "Yin in Disease", which expressed his frustration and inner ambition at that time. In autumn, he taught at Changzhou Alma Mater, and established a military band and a bamboo ensemble for his alma mater.