Author: Lin Youren
Mr. Liu's Guqin Art —— The 10th Generation of Guangling Piano School. To commemorate the centenary of the birth of Mr. Liu, the tenth generation descendant of Guangling Qin School, Hong Kong "Production Co., Ltd." carefully produced and published the CD album "Liu Guqin Art". This will be an exciting thing for guqin lovers who are struggling to find guqin materials.
Happiness is the heart. Music shows people's hearts and inner world with its unique language and expression. Even language geniuses are inevitably dwarfed. Therefore, listening to music and feeling with your heart is the most real and direct. X
The recordings of Guqin recorded in this album include eight piano pieces such as Song of the Woodman, Ping Sha Yan, Yin in the Mountain, Dragon Vanilla, Three Lanes of Plum Blossoms, Autumn Wind in Wu Ye, Mo Zi's Sorrow and Preface to a Beautiful Night, which were performed by Mr. Liu for the interview of 1956 National Guqin. The former was jointly published by Jiangsu Audio-visual Publishing House and Hong Kong Hugo Production Co., Ltd., while the latter was published for the first time, and it is also the recording that we can hear at present that best reflects his playing the piano with a normal mind. For various reasons, the quality of these recordings is not satisfactory. However, despite our regret, we are still grateful. Fortunately, after all, the representative piano music of Guangling School has been preserved in history, which makes people really feel the artistic style of Guangling School and Mr. Liu playing the piano.
A white horse is not a horse. Any performance school is composed of a group of performers in a certain historical period, and the individual is the combination of the essential characteristics of this school and his personality. We might as well say that "Liu's Guangling School" and "Zhang Ziqian's Guangling School" seem to be more accurate.
The Guangling left by Liu, living in the first world, can be said to be the greatest compensation for his unknown life. His attainments in guqin are based on the world's own public purpose.
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Liu Shao, a Chinese character with a good reputation, began to use Chinese characters as an adult. 190 1 year1month 16 was born in a salt merchant family in Beilingbao, Fuping County, Shaanxi Province. I studied in a private school for five years. 19 14 winter, I went south to Yangzhou, Jiangsu with my father. And his father's "Yulong Yan Quan". I have been a teacher for three years and worked as a copywriter and clerk in a salt company. After his father died. Due to Liu's poor management, the salt company closed down on 1935, and the Liu family could only make a living by pawning antiques and things. In order to make a living, recommended by a friend, I worked as a librarian in the primary school library attached to Zhenjiang Normal University, a staff member of Nantong Yuhua Salt Company, and a second lieutenant in Jiangxi No.26 Temporary Rehabilitation Institute. Hou Shuang went to Jinhua, Hangzhou to apply for a job, and returned to Yangzhou 1949 in May. On the anniversary of 1956, I was invited to Nanjing to interview and record the piano music of Guangling School for the national musicians organized by Mr. Cha Fuxi. Later, Mr. Zhang planned to teach young people guqin in Nanjing Music Society and pay a meager monthly fee to subsidize their lives. Sometimes Zhang, Mei Yueqiang, Lin Youren, Deng Wenquan, Gong and others are all his teachers. 1958, recommended by Mr. Gan Tao, taught guqin in the Music Department of Nanjing Art Institute. /kloc-returned to Yangzhou in 0/963 and was employed as a librarian of Jiangsu Provincial Museum of Literature and History. 197 1 year 165438+ died on1October 20th.
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Although Liu is a rich boy, he has not caught the bad habits of some rich boys. He is honest and charitable. Around 1930, in the heyday of "Yulong", Liu was always responsive and generous to relatives, friends and business partners who came to ask for help because of life difficulties or urgent needs.
When he was young, Liu was keen on playing Kunqu Opera, Xiao and singing Kunqu Opera, and invited famous boxers from Shaanxi to teach martial arts at home. In addition, he also devoted himself to calligraphy, painting, iron pen leather carving and Taoist health preservation. Liu is not sociable, but he is willing to make friends in the Wulin and art circles. Boxing friends Liu and Xu Wenquan, painting friends Wu Lixian, Chen Hanguang, Jin Jianwu, Kunqu Friends, Jiang, Xu Zhongshan, etc. , are closely related to him.
Liu became attached to the piano at 1928, when Mr. Sun Shaotao was invited to be a tutor at home. His children learn classical Chinese with Mr. Sun, while they worship Mr. Sun as their teacher. Sun Shaotao (1879- 1949), a native of Yangzhou, was born in a noble family of Cao Man. His father, Sun Tansheng, is a famous musician of Guangling Qin School and his tutor. 65,438+00 years old, good at ancient prose, calligraphy, poetry and songs. He likes to sing Kunqu opera, and is especially good at guqin. Later, he studied with Guangling Qinpai, learned more about Ding Yutian and Qinyi. In 19 12, he founded Guangling Qinshe with Hu Zifu, Wang, Xia Youbai and others, and was promoted to president. Sun Shaotao got a true biography of Guangling, saying that he died in an instant. Liu studied hard under the guidance of teachers Ming and Yan. Because there are many children, they can't practice the piano during the day, so they practice the piano and martial arts in the dead of night, often staying up all night and tirelessly. It is difficult to grasp the rhythm of the piano music of Guangling School, so he practiced and pondered it repeatedly until he was satisfied. So the progress of learning the piano is slow, but it is solid. Teacher Sun taught in Liu Jiaren for three years, which laid a solid foundation for Liu's Guqin art; In Guangling Piano Club, he often communicated and consulted with musicians such as Shi Yinmei, Zhai Xiaobo, Wang Yizhi, Zhang Ziqian, Hu Doudong, Wu Ruoyu and Liu Jingshao.
The decline of family background and the vagaries of life did not make Liu depressed, which he didn't seem to mind. This is because he has a wife who has always been considerate and considerate, and can manage the family diligently at home in the most difficult times. Under her care, she survived many difficulties and maintained the survival of a large family. Another spiritual pillar of life is the guqin. During War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression's time, he could abandon everything in his family and take refuge in the countryside with a guqin, which was called "piano fever" by his relatives and friends at that time. It can be seen that "Qin" has been regarded as a part of his life and accompanied him through his life.
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After Liu went to Ning from 65438 to 0956, he had more opportunities to teach guqin. He teaches piano, emphasizing that "there are not many songs, but they are good", and he is very strict with students' fingering. We must achieve the accuracy of the right hand and the perfection of the left hand. Beginners every