Zhu Jianer, whose real name is Zhu Rongshi, whose courtesy name is Puchen, is a composer, musician, and native of Jingxian County, Anhui Province. As an exceptionally diligent composer, Zhu Jianer has left a successful record in many important fields of music creation. His main works include ten symphonies and more than ten symphony works of other genres. His musical works have profound ideological connotations and strong artistic appeal.

Character evaluation

Ye Xiaogang (Chairman of the Chinese Musicians Association): Mr. Zhu Jian'er is the most comprehensive composer in China so far, and he is also a role model for the younger generation. With his tireless pursuit, both ideologically and artistically, he only started to compose symphonies at the age of 60, and he has composed a total of 10 pieces. He also created many popular and influential works in the early days. He came back from Moscow to create "Festival Overture", "Song of Spring", "Take Lei Feng's Gun", "Sing a Folk Song to the Party" and later large-scale works. Symphonic works. His life trajectory can be said to be a microcosm of the history of Chinese symphony. Especially when he was very old, he still insisted on his personal views on things, and he was upright.

Qian Shijin (former general manager of Shanghai Symphony Orchestra, former deputy general manager of Shanghai Grand Theater): He is a musician who refuses to stick to the rules. Although he studies composition of traditional classical music, he has always been exploring modern music. And pursuit, application, which is still very remarkable among Chinese composers. He has a solid foundation and is very honest.

Music cannot be without music in the human spiritual world, it is a spoonful of salt in life, full of fresh flavors. Mr. Zhu Jian'er, a master composer who is in his 90s, was the head of the Shanghai Musicians Association. The reason why the name "Jian Er" is well-known is probably because of his popular songs such as "Fighting Well", "Sing a Folk Song to the Party" and "Take Lei Feng's Gun", which became one of the representative works of that era. one.

Zhu Jianer's ancestral home is from Jingxian County, Anhui Province. He was born in Tianjin in 1922. His real name is Zhu Rongshi and his courtesy name is Puchen. His father opened a flour mill in Tianjin, which was later closed due to foreign investment. He contracted the epidemic scarlet fever and died young at the age of thirty-four. Mr. Zhu Jian'er has a clear face, and he has never seen him gain weight. He is usually taciturn and does not like to socialize. It is unbelievable that in such a thin body, he possesses flame-like passion and enormous creative energy. He is a prolific composer rarely seen in the circle. He is not addicted to tobacco and alcohol, and a cup of tea is enough. When he is sleepy when writing, he actually chews a few pieces of dried tea leaves in his mouth. The simple life has nothing to do with fashion.

At the age of 72, Zhu Jianer was invited to give academic speeches at four major institutions of higher learning, including the Juilliard School of Music in New York, where he talked about the academic topic of how Chinese and Western music cultures blend in creation.

biography

Born in Tianjin on October 18, 1922, he moved to Shanghai with his family since childhood. When I was in middle school, I became interested in music and taught myself piano and other instruments. In the late 1930s, he studied harmony with Qian Renkang, and then entered a training class run by Shirenwang to learn button accordion.

In 1945, he went to the liberated area of northern Jiangsu, and worked in the front-line theater troupe of the Central Soviet Military Region and the Art Troupe of the East China Military Region in music creation.

After the Battle of Laiwu in 1947, he composed the song "Fighting Well", which was widely sung among the military and civilians in the liberated area.

From 1949 to 1953, he composed music in Shanghai Film Studio, Beijing Film Studio and Central News and Documentary Film Studio successively.

In 1955, he went to the Soviet Union to study composition under the tutelage of Professor Balasain of the Moscow Tchaikovsky Conservatory. The piano overture No. 1 "Tell You" and No. 2 "Flowing Water", written during the study period, are refined in tone and meticulous in brushwork; the piano solo "Epic Poem" (written for the one-act ballet "Si Fan") and "Theme and Variations" , Le Si has a rigorous development logic and rich harmony techniques. The former uses symphonic techniques and sonata forms, with sharp conflicts and unrestrained emotions, depicting the journey of the little nun breaking free from the pressure of religion and moving towards life.

In 1959, the first orchestral work "Festival Overture" was premiered in Moscow and was recorded as a permanent repertoire by the former USSR State Radio. Later, he performed with symphony orchestras from Cologne, Germany, Nagoya, Japan, and Norway.

Written in 1960, the symphony - the chorus "Psalms of Heroes" (the lyrics use Mao Zedong's poems), has a majestic momentum and gorgeous colors, and also shows the author's skill in terms of conception and technique, and is highly praised by the music industry.

In 1960, he returned to China after completing his studies, and the following year he worked as a full-time composer at the Shanghai Experimental Opera House. In the following years, most of his creations were of small vocal genres. Among them, "Take Lei Feng's Gun" and "Sing a Folk Song for the Party" became popular songs at that time.

Since 1975, he has been with the Shanghai Symphony Orchestra. The string ensemble "Reminiscence" written in 1978 was his first attempt to touch the tragic subject in the creation of symphonic music. Completed in 1980, "Symphonic Fantasia - Commemorating Warriors Who Dedicated to the Truth" was written after two years of deliberation, inspired by the tragic incident of Martyr Zhang Zhixin. This piece won the Excellence Award in the National First Symphonic Music Works Awards in 1981.

In May 1982, the symphonic suite "Qianling Sketch" was performed for the first time at the 10th Shanghai Spring Concert.

In 1983, the symphonic suite "Sketch of Qianling" was performed in Stockholm by the Swiss Radio Symphony Orchestra.

In 1984, he was invited to Moscow to attend the 2nd International Music Festival. "Symphonic Fantasia" was performed and recorded by the Ukrainian National Symphony Orchestra.

In 1985, he was elected as the fourth executive director of the Chinese Musicians Association.

In 1987, he was invited to visit Japan, and the "New Symphony Orchestra" performed "Nashi Yiqi", conducted by the famous Japanese composer Akutagawa Yamura.

In 1993, he attended the 6th Chinese Composers Symposium and premiered the commissioned folk music quintet "Harmony" in Taiwan.

In 1994, he completed the 6th, 7th and 8th symphonies and the "Small Symphony" in the United States.

In 1996, he attended the "96 French Radio International Music Festival" in Paris and performed the quintet "Harmony".

In 2002, he attended the "International Contemporary Music Festival" in Hong Kong and performed the pipa and string quartet "Jade".

In 2000, he went to Yokohama, Japan to attend the "Asian Modern Music Week" and performed "The Eighth Symphony".

In May 2002, he published my country's first solo symphony collection "Zhu Jian'er Symphony Collection".

Character honor

In 1951, "Symphonic Fantasia" won the first prize of the National Symphony Works;

1960 Symphony - Cantata "Psalms of Heroes" was collected by the former Soviet state radio station as a permanent repertoire recording.

In 1990, "Symphony No. 4" won the Swiss "Queen Marie José" International Composition Competition Award;

In 1990, he was included in "Who's Who in World Music" by the Cambridge Biographical Center;

In 1991, he won the "Outstanding Contribution Award" of Shanghai Literature and Art Individual;

In 1992, "Symphony No. 1" won the "Special Creation Award" from China Record Company;

In 1994, "The Second Symphony" won the first prize of the National Symphony Works;

In 1997, "Sixth Symphony" won the Baosteel Elegant Art Award;

In 1997, the symphonic poem "One Hundred Years of Vicissitudes" won the Gold Award for the Collection of Music Works for the Return of Hong Kong and the 4th Shanghai Literary and Art Individual "Outstanding Achievement Award";

In 2001, he won the "Lifetime Medal of Honor" in the first China Music Golden Bell Award.

character dies

On August 15, 2017, Mr. Zhu Jian'er, a famous composer and composer-in-residence of the Shanghai Symphony Orchestra, passed away in Shanghai Ruijin Hospital due to illness at the age of 95. According to Zhu Lao's last wish, no memorial service will be held, and his body will be donated for medical research.

personal works

Orchestral "Festival Overture", Folk Ensemble "The Day to Turn Over", two string quartets (one of which is in collaboration with Shi Yongkang), "Song of Spring" for oboe and piano, "Five Yunnan Folk Songs" for piano, unaccompanied Chorus suite "Green Water Village", solo songs "Voyage" and "Clear Memory", music for film creation: "Long Live Peace", "Longxugou", "The Great Land Reform", and the soundtrack of the film "Eternal Life in Fire", etc. . Songs "Fight Well", "Sing a Folk Song to the Party", "Take Lei Feng's Gun", "Clear Memory" and so on. Folk music ensemble "Days of Turning Over", piano pieces "Prelude No. 1 "Tell You", "Prelude No. 2 "Flowing Water", etc., symphonic chorus "Hero's Psalm", symphonic fantasy "Commemorating the warriors who sacrificed their lives for the truth" ", the symphonic suite "Sketch of Qianling Mountains", the orchestral music poem "Naxi Yiqi", "First Symphony", "Second Symphony" and so on.

artistic features

As an exceptionally diligent composer, Zhu Jianer has a successful record in many important fields of music creation. His main works include ten symphonies and more than ten symphony works of other genres. His musical works have profound ideological connotations and strong artistic appeal.

Zhu Lao's symphony creation is based on tradition, and draws on Western techniques, creatively uses new musical language in the modern artistic context, and endows traditional national culture with new ideological connotations. Mr. Zhu said: "The evolution of music creation from generic writing in the classical period to modern individual writing is a progressive trend and an inevitable trend. Almost every composer is trying his best to be ingenious and find another way in his artistic exploration and pursuit. , to find a unique positioning for himself." His own positioning is "to be inclusive, based on transcendence", and the specific performance is "unity", which includes the unity of the virtual and the real in music thinking, the unity of reason and spirit, and the unity of spirit and form. 1. In terms of writing techniques, the unity of tradition and modernity, the unity of tonality and atonality, the unity of nationality and internationality; the unity of autonomy and heteronomy, the unity of subject and object, and the advancement of aesthetic concepts Sex and acceptability are one. All "oneness" sides are opposites. Combining these completely different things is based on the dialectical law of the unity of opposites and the principle of alternation of yin and yang. I think that opposites can penetrate each other, complement each other, transform each other, and complement each other and become one. "Oneness" is not a mixture, but a combination, and it is not a simple 1+1=2, but a kind of "oneness" rising in a spiral shape. The two sides of "unity" are by no means equally divided, but have ever-changing "formulas" and "smelting methods", which also distinguish the different characteristics of each work. The "unity method" can also have the unity of rigor and freedom, the unity of deliberate and random, the unity of certainty and uncertainty, the unity of order and disorder... It is flexible, not mechanical and rigid. ; it is constantly evolving, not static; it is open, not closed; it is a style of music, not a school or system.