Chen Gang was born in Shanghai, 1935. In his early years, he studied composition and piano with his father Chen Gexin and Hungarian pianist Vara. 1955 after he was admitted to Shanghai Conservatory of Music, he studied composition and theory with alzas Manof, president of Ding Shande and a Soviet music expert. From 65438 to 0959, the violin concerto "Butterfly Lovers" with He was well-known in Chinese and foreign music circles. Since then, his violin solo "Morning in Miao Ling", "Golden Stove", "Sunshine in Tashkurgan", "Kindness" and his violin concerto "Wang Zhaojun" written in 1980s have also become famous violin music documents in China. He also composed China's first harp concerto and the first oboe concerto. Chen Gang's works include symphonic poems, chorus and chamber music ensemble. His works are famous for their strong national ancestral feelings and rich contemporary composition techniques.
The violin concerto "butterfly lovers" adopts sonata form, and selects three main plots in folk stories "butterfly lovers", "Ying Tai Don't Marry" and "Butterfly at the Grave" as the contents of music presentation, development and reproduction respectively. The work contents are as follows:
1.
At the beginning of the music, under the background of string vibrato, the flute played a beautiful and gentle melody, which seemed to describe the story background of beautiful spring scenery, birds and flowers on the way to school in Liang Zhu. The theme sound of oboe performance is taken from the music of Yue Opera.
2. Display department
(1) Love: Accompanied by the harp, the violin played a love theme that has been sung for ages. This theme is based on the music materials of Yue Opera. The author was once an actor of Yue Opera Troupe. As far as he knows, any Shaoxing opera actor singing this aria will win the applause of the audience. Therefore, the author chooses this aria as the love theme of Butterfly Lovers and takes it as the core tone of the whole work. The melody characteristics of this theme are constantly ups and downs, which seems to show Liang Zhu's yearning and pursuit for a happy life and beautiful love. The decline seems to indicate the twists and turns of their lives and the pain of having a lover who can't get married. Here, the solo violin is transferred from the high-pitched area to the middle-pitched area, and the cello "sings" with the solo violin in a unique tone, forming an answer, as if depicting the scene of Liang Zhu's "Grass Bridge". Subsequently, the band played this theme with emotion, which fully showed the mutual appreciation of Liang and Zhu.
(2) The connecting part: the cadenza of violin solo. In the cadenza, the band usually stops playing, and the soloist gives full play to his playing skills. The performances here are more free and more difficult, so they are more eye-catching. Composers use cadenza here, making it an integral part of their works and a paragraph with independent characteristics.
(3) Subverse: It is the most brisk and joyful passage in the whole work. The entrance of Yue Opera was changed to violin solo, which is in sharp contrast with the lyric theme of love. The first insertion speed is a lively allegro, which is modeled after woodwind instruments and violin solos. The speed of two plugs is more relaxed and cheerful. Speed is an important means of musical expression. The composer vividly described the happy time of Liang and Zhu for three years with light speed, relaxed rhythm, beating melody and lively emotion.
(4) The last part: The music adopts Adagio of Regret, and its material is based on the theme of love. The composer skillfully used two pauses at the end, which made the music intermittently and delicately depict the complex mood of Yingtai in the face of Shanbo who came to see me off. The lingering melody, slow speech speed, with infinite sadness and regret, make people seem to see Liang Zhu send each other a shot like eighteen. It's really "deep in the ocean, three-year classmate, mountain man Zhu Yingtai"