Hard times on Xian Xinghai Avenue.

1940, Xian Xinghai was blocked from returning home via Mongolia and went to Almaty, then the capital of Kazakhstan. He was homeless, hungry and sick, and the musician Baikadamov and his family took him in.

In midsummer, Almaty, Kazakhstan is covered with trees. There is a Xian Xinghai Avenue in Almaty. At the end of the street, stands a monument-Xian Xinghai Monument.

Xian Xinghai is a great composer in our country, and he wrote a large number of patriotic anti-Japanese songs such as The Yellow River Cantata, On Taihang Mountain and Saving the Nation. He died in Moscow on 1945. How did he come to Kazakhstan? How did he spend the last few years before the reform and opening up? Even Xian Xinghai's daughter, Xian Nina, didn't know the details.

Baikadamov's reception

Baikadamov took in Xian Xinghai, who was poor and sick.

Xian Xinghai's former residence is not on Xian Xinghai Street, but it is not far apart. Badgen Baikadamova's father, Badgen Baikadamova, is a Kazakh musician who took in Xian Xinghai. Baikadamova told us the story of Xian Xinghai in Kazakhstan.

1940, Xian Xinghai went to Moscow to post-produce and score the documentary Yan 'an and the Eighth Route Army according to the instructions of the central authorities. 1941June, German fascists invaded the Soviet Union and the Great Patriotic War broke out. Xian Xinghai was blocked from returning to China via Mongolia and was exiled to Almaty, then the capital of Kazakhstan. He has no fixed address, no food, and is poor and ill. After a concert, Kazakh musician Bahad Jean Baikadamov held his violin and met Xian Xinghai.

Badgun Baikadamova said that when his father came to Xian Xinghai, it was1942 65438+February, which was the most difficult time for Xian Xinghai, and the Soviet Union was even more difficult at that time. My father met Xian Xinghai in the concert hall. It was cold in June+February, 5438, and Xian Xinghai didn't even have a coat. Seeing Xian Xinghai's poor conditions, his father took him home. The Baikadamov family took in Xian Xinghai. At that time, there was very little bread at home, but we regarded Xian Xinghai as a member of the family and shared limited food with him.

Future generations can't imagine the moment when Bahad Jean Baikadamov met Xian Xinghai. Xian Xinghai can't speak Russian, but only Chinese and French. Baikadamov decided to take Xian Xinghai in on the first day he met her, hardly considering how long the China man would stay at home. Because of Baikadamov's sympathy and kindness, or because of the legend that musicians appreciate each other. In short, Xian Xinghai has a relatively stable living environment.

Xian Xinghai lives in Baikadamov's house. Although he doesn't know the language, Xian Xinghai often plays the harmonica and violin for 4-year-old Baikadamova. If communication is inconvenient, Xian Xinghai writes and draws with pen and paper. Although everyone's life is bitter, they are all happy. Once, both children of the landlord got measles. Xian Xinghai couldn't bear to implicate the Baikadamov family in a poor life and went out to sell watches and thin windbreakers. As a result, I was cheated, and the money and things were empty.

It was not until Xian Xinghai died that he knew he was a musician in China.

In this way, 1943 was spent. During this period, Xian Xinghai continued to work hard and composed the heroic symphonic poem Geld in Oman and 22 Kazakh folk songs. Baikadamov valued Xian Xinghai's musical talent and recommended him to be the music director of the newly established Costana Concert Hall. At the beginning of 1944, Xian Xinghai left Baikadamov and Almaty for Costana. Later, Xian Xinghai suffered from pneumonia while traveling and died in Moscow Kremlin Hospital on June1945+1October 3 1.

Badgun Baikadamova said that my father didn't know who he had brought home. At that time, Xian Xinghai used the name Huang Xun. After Xian Xinghai's death, my father saw the news of the death of Xian Xinghai, a famous musician in China, in a Moscow newspaper, which read "Xian Xinghai, also known as Huang Xun", only to know that he had received Huang Xun, a musician from China, from home. He was Xian Xinghai, an outstanding people musician in China.

Before leaving Baikadamov's home, Xian Xinghai realized that he was in poor health and had a premonition that the future was numbered. Badgun Baikadamova said that she was very sad when Xian Xinghai was about to leave Almaty. He asked our family to find his 3-year-old daughter Shanina and tell her his last situation.

After Xian Xinghai died, our family contacted Xian Xinghai's family through various channels, including official channels. However, the period of abnormal Sino-Soviet relations lasted for twenty or thirty years, and we never got the answer. I didn't get the news until the 1980s. China learned about Xian Xinghai's experience in Kazakhstan and that the people of Kazakhstan accepted and helped Xian Xinghai with a broad mind.

Half a century later,

Half a century later, musicians' daughters met in Almaty.

Badgen Baikadamova and Shanina met at 1998. When Xian Xinghai's former residence was unveiled, Xian Nina was invited to attend the ceremony held in Almaty. Xian Xinghai, Jean Baikadamov and Bach, the musicians of the older generation, all died. Half a century later, the musicians' daughters met the friendship left by their parents. Badgun Baikadamova: "Although we don't know each other, when I met Shanina at the airport, we recognized each other by feeling." Baikadamova and Nina keep in touch.

1944 On March19, Xian Xinghai organized the first concert since the outbreak of the war at the completion ceremony of Costana Concert Hall.

Xian Xinghai's symphonic poem "Geld of Oman" was a great success at the Oman Geld Memorial Concert held in Costana Theatre. Xian Xinghai recreated the national hero of Kazakhstan in the form of music, and the audience applauded. The local leaders excitedly ran onto the stage and embraced Xian Xinghai. Xian Xinghai said to the audience, "You understand me. This is the highest reward for an artist. "

After a lapse of 44 years, 1998 10.07 The Embassy of China held a "Concert in Memory of Xian Xinghai China" at the Central Concert Hall in Almaty, China. The rich melodies of The Yellow River Cantata and other works sounded in the places where Xian Xinghai lived. Many listeners present knew Xian Xinghai's experience in Almaty for the first time and heard China's music for the first time.

Badergan Baikadamova, who once sat on Xian Xinghai's lap and listened to him play the harmonica, followed in his father's footsteps and became the vice president of the Conservatory of Music. Now she has retired. The old house in the shade is separated from the weeds by iron bars, and the Kazakh national musical instruments used by the older generation of musicians are precious. Baikadamova said that if the old residence is to be demolished in the municipal planning, it can only be kept for a short time.