Qian Renkang (19 14—20 13) is a musician and composer in China. 19 14 April 14 was born in Wuxi, Jiangsu. Love literature and music since childhood. 1930 entered Wuxi Normal School and began to learn piano, harmony and composition. 1932 was admitted to the music department of private Shanghai Academy of Fine Arts. 1933 was admitted to the theoretical composition group of Shanghai National Conservatory of Music, and graduated from Huang Zi and Li Weining successively, 1940. 1935 published the first translation of Music Theory and Composition (translated by Jin Shitang, original text ]P.W. Olim). He has composed music for Chen Tian and the drama Peach Blossom Spring. For Cai's little opera "Three Shoots in Jiangcun" (consisting of three acts of "Fishing Song", "Woodcutting Song" and "Pastoral Song"), and based on this, he created four operas "Song of the Earth" (written by Cai), from the end of 1940 to the beginning of 194 1. 1941-1942 He devoted himself to interpreting the 17 sidelobe in Baishi's songs of the Song Dynasty. After translating it into a staff, he accompanied each song with piano accompaniment in mode harmony. Since the mid-1940s, he has been the editor-in-chief of Music and Education and Music Review sponsored by Shanghai Music Education Association. At the same time, three middle school music textbooks and two middle school songs were compiled, which were adopted by many middle schools at that time. In the late 1940s, he taught at Suzhou National Institute of Social Education. The collection of solo songs "Star" and "Song of the Spring Dynasty" was published in Shanghai.

In the early days of the founding of the People's Republic of China, Qian Renkang successively served as a professor in the Department of Art Education of Wuxi Sunan Institute of Culture and Education, the Department of Art Education of Suzhou Jiangsu Normal University and the Department of Music of Shanghai East China Normal University, and concurrently served as a professor at Shanghai Conservatory of Music. From 65438 to 0956, he was transferred to Shanghai Conservatory of Music as a professor of theoretical composition and concurrently served as deputy editor-in-chief of Shanghai Music Publishing House. 1982, director of musicology department and concurrently director of music research institute. 1979 was elected as a member of China Federation of Literary and Art Circles, and 1985 was appointed as the executive director of China Musicians Association.

In the long-term music teaching, Qian Renkang made a detailed study and analysis of Mozart, Beethoven, Schubert, Chopin, Liszt, Pyotr Il'yich Tchaikovsky, Debussy and other famous composers and their works. In-depth study of the common laws of Chinese and foreign musical forms and the means of musical expression. His major works include Selected Translations of Pyotr Il'yich Tchaikovsky's Major Works and Chopin's Ballads.