Brief score of saxophone butterfly lovers

The score of saxophone Liang Zhu is as follows

This work premiered at Shanghai Lanxin Grand Theatre on May 27th, 1959 as a gift from Shanghai Conservatory of Music to the anniversary of the founding of the People's Republic of China. Lina Yu, a student of Shanghai Conservatory of Music 18, played the violin solo, and Fan Chengwu cooperated with the Student Orchestra of Shanghai Conservatory of Music.

Creation background

The violin concerto Butterfly Lovers was composed by He and Chen Gang during their 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, using symphony and China folk opera music expression techniques, carefully conceiving the layout according to the plot development, and adopting 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.