Brief score of Liangzhu harmonica

On May 27th, 1959, the violin concerto "Butterfly Lovers" composed by He and Chen Gang premiered at the Shanghai Grand Theatre, with Yu as a violin solo. This is the most famous violin piece in China, which marks the beginning of nationalization of symphonic music.

The violin concerto "Butterfly Lovers" was composed by Chen Gang and He He during his study in Shanghai Conservatory of Music. It was made in the winter of 1958 and premiered in Shanghai in May the following year, with Lina Yu as a violin solo. The theme is a well-known folk story, with the tunes in Yue Opera as the material, and the symphony and China folk opera music expression techniques are comprehensively adopted.

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"butterfly lovers" is carefully conceived and laid out according to the development of the plot, with sonata structure, single movement and subtitles. The main contents are "Grass Bridge Becoming sworn", "Anti-marriage between Yingtai and Taiwan" and "become a butterfly at the Grave". The music structure is composed of flowers and birds, grass bridges, three-year-old classmates, eighteen-year-old farewell, long pavilion farewell, anti-marriage between Britain and Taiwan, sadness and butterflies in front of graves.

Chen Gang studied composition and piano with his father Chen Gexin and Hungarian pianist Vara in his early years. 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. As early as his school days, he became famous in Chinese and foreign music circles for his violin concerto "Butterfly Lovers".

/kloc-When he was 0/2 years old, He's father sent him to Hangzhou for junior high school with borrowed money, hoping that he would become a literate person in the future. I didn't expect He, who loves opera, to finally learn Yue Opera. A trip to Shanghai made He inadvertently enter the Shanghai Conservatory of Music and wrote China's first violin concerto "Butterfly Lovers". This work is a model of the perfect combination of China traditional music and western music.