Who is the master of folk music?

The master of Chinese music is Liu Tianhua.

Liu Tianhua can be called Liu Tianhua (1895 February 4th-1932 June 8th), a master of modern folk music in China, a native of Maqiao Village, Nansha Town, Jiangyin City, Jiangsu Province, a modern composer, performer and music educator in China. His father Liu Baoshan was a scholar in the late Qing Dynasty, and his brother Liu Bannong was a famous poet.

His works include Yin in Illness, Moonlit Night, Depression, Elegy, Bird in the Empty Mountain, Yin in Leisure, Good Night, Bright Walk, First Line Exercise, Candle Shadow Shakes Red, Introduction to Song and Dance, and Improved Exercise. Variations on the New Water Sequence, 47 erhu etudes and 15 pipa etudes, and 12 Chongming pipa tunes were adapted from Gaoting Company 1928 into Flying Flowers and Cuisine, which has now become a classic pipa work.

Liu Tianhua's deeds and achievements

Liu Tianhua studied violin and western composition theory after teaching, absorbed western music and performance skills on the basis of national music, and made outstanding achievements in the creation and performance of national instrumental music.

Liu Tianhua chose erhu as a breakthrough to reform China's music, borrowed from violin's long tremolo bow and other techniques and western instrumental music creation techniques, and combined pipa wheel finger pressing and guqin overtone playing to create and apply the multi-position playing method.

All these have added the profundity of artistic expression to the erhu from music to performance, thus making this neglected national instrument in ancient times become a modern professional solo instrument and the protagonist and representative of China national music. Therefore, Liu Tianhua is regarded as the founder of modern erhu playing school and the originator of erhu.