Ding Shan-de

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Ding Shan-de ( Chinese  丁善德 , Pinyin Dīng Shàndé , W.-G. Ting Shan-te ; born November 12, 1911 in Kunshan , Jiangsu ; † December 8, 1995 in Shanghai , People's Republic of China ) was a Chinese composer .

From 1928 he studied playing the four-string pipa lute with Zhu Ying at the Shanghai Music Academy , from 1929 piano with the Russian Boris Stepanowitsch Sakharov and composition with Huang Zhi. In the next few years he taught himself, first from 1935 at a music school in Tianjin , then from 1938 to 1945 at the Shanghai and Nanjing Conservatories because of the advance of Japanese troops in the Second Sino-Japanese War . At the same time, from 1942 onwards he deepened his studies in Shanghai with the Berlin composer Wolfgang Fraenkel , who had emigrated to China because of his Jewish origins. In 1947 Ding went to Paris to study counterpoint and fugue at the Conservatoire with Noël Gallon and instrumentation and composition with Tony Aubin , Nadia Boulanger and Arthur Honegger . In 1949 he became a professor at the Shanghai Conservatory, where he also served as dean of the composition department from 1950 and vice-director from 1956. He was also recognized internationally as a recognized authority and was in demand as a juror. a. at the Chopin Competition in Warsaw in 1960, at the Tchaikovsky Competition in Moscow in 1962 and at the Concours Musical Reine Elisabeth in Belgium in 1964. During the cultural revolution (1966–1976), he was exposed to hostility as a “western” composer and became part of his works burned publicly. After a ten-year break, he was able to compose again and continue teaching until his retirement in the mid-1980s. His students included Chou Wen-chung , Chen Gang, and Xu Shuya.

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He wrote works for orchestra, including symphonies, suites and overtures, concerts, cantatas, chamber and piano music and songs. In China he first attracted attention with the piano suite Spring Trip (1945), in Paris with his New China Symphonic Suite (1949) - influences of impressionism have also been found in his work since his apprenticeship years in France . The cantata Ode to the Huangpu River , composed in 1959 , in which he made the history of Shanghai the theme, marked a high point of his work . His most famous composition was the symphony The Long March , completed in 1962 , titled after the Long March , the heroic myth of the retreat of the Red Army under Mao Tse-Tung in 1934/35 - stylistically this epic work is set in the late Romantic period , but also shows influences from Shostakovich . The five movements have headings such as Embarking on the Road and Crossing Snow Mountains and Grasslands , and overall the work also has film music features. Ding Shan-de played a particularly decisive role in the development of symphonic music in his country. His piano music also became known beyond the borders of China. In addition, thing also left theoretical writings, u. a. the 1952 published method of counterpoint , based on treatises by Marcel Dupré and his former teacher Noël Gallon.

Trivia

A grandson of Ding Shan-de is Yu Long, chief conductor of the Shanghai Symphony Orchestra , artist a. a. at Deutsche Grammophon and recipient of the Federal Cross of Merit .

Works (selection)

orchestra

  • New China Symphonic Suite , 1949
  • Long March , Symphony, 1962
  • Jump , symphonic poem
  • Symphonic Overture
  • Piano Concerto in B flat major, 1984

Orchestra and choir

  • Ode to the Huangpu River , cantata, 1959

Chamber music

  • String Quartet in E minor
  • Piano trio in C major

piano

  • Spring Trip , 1945
    • Dance with the Morning Wind
  • Three Preludes , 1948
  • Variations on Themes of Chinese Folk-songs , 1948
  • A children's piano suite : Merry Holiday , 1953
  • Xinjiang Dances No. 1, 1950, and 2, 1955
  • Toccata , 1958
  • Four Little Preludes and Fugues , 1988

singing

  • Blue Mist , 1958
  • My Husband gives Me a Sunflower , 1961
  • Ode to orange

Discography (selection)

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Shande Ding in the Munzinger archive , accessed on November 4, 2019 ( beginning of the article freely available)
  2. ↑ a b Barbara Mittler:  Ding Shande. In: Ludwig Finscher (Hrsg.): The music in past and present . Second edition, personal section, volume 5 (Covell - Dzurov). Bärenreiter / Metzler, Kassel et al. 2001, ISBN 3-7618-1115-2  ( online edition , subscription required for full access)
  3. ↑ a b c Shande Ding on Naxos (English)
  4. ↑ a b c d Lin En Pei: The Artistic Life and Piano Works of Ting Shan Te . In: The Development of Piano Music in China . University of Tasmania, 1989, OCLC 221899784 , pp. 12, 70–93 (English, 133 pp., Edu.au [PDF; accessed November 4, 2019] Master's thesis).
  5. ↑ a b Ken Smith: Guangzhou Symphony Orchestra performs. The work of peasant-turned composer Ding Shande. In: Financial Times . July 8, 2013, accessed November 4, 2019 .
  6. ^ A b Frank Kouwenhoven:  Ding Shande. In: Grove Music Online (English; subscription required).
  7. ↑ Ding Shande: The Long March Symphony on naxos.com (English)
  8. ↑ Liu Ching-chih: Ding Shande . In: A Critical History of New Music in China . The Chinese University Press, Hong Kong 2010, ISBN 978-962-996-360-6 , pp. 361 ff . (English, full text in Google Book Search [accessed November 4, 2019]).
  9. ↑ Ding Shan-de: Symphony "The Long March" on worthpoint.com (English)
  10. ^ Sheila Melvin, Jindong Cai: Rhapsody in Red: How Western Classical Music Became Chinese . Algora, New York 2004, ISBN 0-87586-179-2 (English, 362 pages, full text in Google Book Search [accessed November 4, 2019]).
  11. ↑ Long Yu on Guangzhou Symphony Orchestra (English)
  12. ↑ 上海 交响乐团: 2017–2018 Season Shanghai Symphony Orchestra Concert (VII) - Music Streaming - Listen on Deezer. Accessed January 31, 2020 (German).
Note: This article places the family name before the person's first name. This is the usual order in Chinese. Ding is the family name here, Shan-de is the first name.
personal data
SURNAME Thing, Shan-de
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Chinese composer
DATE OF BIRTH November 12, 1911
PLACE OF BIRTH Kunshan
DATE OF DEATH December 8, 1995
Place of death Shanghai