Gu Gengmei, (1899 ~ 1990), Zimeitang, a native of Huayang, Sichuan, is an educator, performer and professor of Guqin, and a representative of Pan-Sichuan School.
Chinese name: Gu.
Alias: Qin Chan
Nationality: China.
Ethnic group: Han nationality
Place of birth: Changsha, Hunan
Date of birth: 1899 lunar calendar 1 1 6th of the month.
Date of death:1August 22, 990
Occupation: Guqin educator and performer.
Main achievements: President of Guqin Research Association of Liaoning Musicians Association.
Masterpieces: Textual Research on Ancient Fingering in Guangling San and Analysis on Ancient Fingering in Guqin.
The life of the character
a scholarly family
In the 25th year of Guangxu reign (1899), he was born in a guqin family in Changsha, Hunan. His great-grandfather Gu Gengshan was a famous painter and calligrapher in Chengdu, Sichuan. His grandfather, Gu Yucheng, was the alternate prefect of Zhili in Hunan in Qing Dynasty, and was a disciple of Zhang Kongshan, the master of modern guqin and the originator of Sichuan School.
(One of the most important disciples of Zhang Kongshan mentioned in most published History of Ancient Music in China and History of Qin Dynasty), he is also a famous painter and calligrapher. His father Gu Zheqing (a juren in Qing Dynasty) and his uncle Gu Zhuoqun are both influential guqin figures in the modern piano field. Influenced by his grandfather Gu Yucheng when he was young, Gu loved China traditional culture and its guqin art. When he went to a private school at the age of six, he studied hard the classics, the four books and the five classics, and learned all the articles by heart. In painting, he studied under Su, a famous Hunan painter in the late Qing Dynasty, and was good at painting plum, orchid and bamboo. His paintings are praised by China painters as: "There is a gentleman's demeanor of tolerance, kindness and generosity between the lines." He imitated Li Beihai, a famous calligrapher in Tang Dynasty. It was in this growing environment that he became fascinated with the art of guqin. At the age of 12, he began to learn from his father Gu Zheqing and his uncle Gu Zhuoqun. The first song is "Drunken Fisherman Singing Late", which is a much-told story in the piano field for some time. During this period, his piano skills were truly inherited by the Sichuan School, and he joined his own Nanxun Piano Club.
Start playing the piano
1920, Qin people from all over the world went to Shanghai Chenfeng Road for a party, and Gu, Peng Zhiqing and Shen Bozhong went to the party together. At the meeting, Gu played piano music "Xiaoxiang Water Cloud", "Running Water", "Drunk Fisherman Singing Late" and "Wild Goose in Pingsha", and played "Puan Mantra" with Peng Zhiqing and Shen Bo, which was highly praised by the participants. 192 1 year, Gu, Peng Zhiqing, Shen Bozhong and Yang Yousan went to Shanxi to teach at the invitation of Dean Zhang of Yucai Museum in Shanxi Province. Professor Gu teaches China's music history and ancient literature, compiles guqin teaching materials and lectures on music history, and produces 12 new piano. Joined the vowel piano club in the same year. /kloc-returned to Hunan in 0/924 and joined the _ _ Qin Society founded by Peng Zhiqing. 65438-0947, invited to teach guqin, ancient literature and China music history in Hunan Conservatory of Music, and was hired as a professor.
diligently
1956, Gu was hired as a special communication researcher at the National Conservatory of Music of the Central Conservatory of Music, and was invited to Beijing to join the Beijing Guqin Research Association, and helped Cha Fuxi complete two representative works, Collection of Guqin Music (Music Press, 1958) and Collection of Guqin Fingers. During this period, he created Guangling San, which was completed in 45 days at a rapid speed. Subsequently, he wrote papers such as Textual Research on Ancient Fingering in Guangling (The Second Series of Qin Lun Zhun Xin compiled by the National Music Institute of the Central Conservatory of Music, 1963) and Analysis of Ancient Fingering in Guqin (The Fourth Series of Music Lun Cong edited by the Music Lun Cong Editorial Department, Music Publishing House, 1964). 1963, in order to commemorate Ji Kang 1740 and the first national forum on playing guqin, he played Changqing, Short Qing, Long Side, Short Side and Lonely Hall, and wrote Textual Research on Several Problems of Ji's Four Pavilions. 1964), Textual Research on the Spread of Zhang Kongshan (published in the second series of Qin Lun Zhun Xin compiled by the National Music Institute of the Central Conservatory of Music, 1964), in addition to writing papers, in order to better inherit the guqin tradition and respond to the call of the state to protect traditional culture, eleven piano pieces have been recorded for the National Music Institute, including Pu 'an. His music scores such as Running Water and Remembering the Past were published in the second episode of Guqin Music Collection (edited by China Academy of Art and Beijing Guqin Research Association, People's Music Publishing House, 1983). "Running Water" was recorded in 1950s, and included in Volume 7 of China Music Collection Guqin Volume (China Record Company, 1994).
Essentials of piano science
65438-0959 Shenyang Conservatory of Music established Guqin major. At that time, the famous musician Li sent Mr. Zhu, director of the folk music department, to Beijing to hire the ancient folk music department to teach guqin specialty. Since then, Gu has become the first professional in Guqin in the music colleges in Northeast China, sowing seeds and bearing fruit in this land which is compared by ancient scholars as a "cultural desert". During this period, he taught many famous people in the piano field today. Such as Gu Zechang, Ding Jiyuan and Ding Chengyun. The following year, at the invitation of Shanghai Conservatory of Music, Professor Guqin was seconded to the Folk Music Department of Shanghai Conservatory of Music. Today, outstanding piano players Gong Yi and Lin Youren have studied under the ancient times. A year later, he returned to teach at Shenyang Conservatory of Music, and it was also during this period that he began to write his masterpiece Notes on Qin Xue (1964). After school, he always works hard, day and night, or in winter and summer vacations. In addition to Sichuan-style piano music, it also excavated and arranged 14 songs such as Yangchun, Snow White, Crying at Night, Luo Chaofei, Shishou Liu Quan, Dragon Vanilla, and Nagato Complaint, and completed the first draft before the Cultural Revolution. Qin Xue Notes, a magnum opus with hundreds of thousands of words, was published by Shanghai Music Publishing House in 2004. Its contents include general rules, fingering, gestures, music scores, temperament, argumentation and system, instruments, playing methods, playing methods, playing sounds and evaluating sounds. It makes a comprehensive, detailed and comprehensive analysis of many aspects of Qin Xue. It is one of the few works in the development history of China Guqin. It is another great contribution to the development of Guqin.
Life works
He is the author of Textual Research on Ancient Fingering in Guangling San, Analysis on Ancient Fingering of Guqin, Textual Research on Ji Sifang, Atlas of Fingering of Guqin in Inch (co-author and editor-in-chief), Atlas of Guqin Music in Inch (co-author and editor-in-chief) and Notes on Qin Xue. Died in 1990.