Guo Wenjing

Guo Wenjing ( Chinese  郭文景 , Pinyin Guō Wénjǐng ; born February 1, 1956 in Chongqing , People's Republic of China ) is a Chinese composer .

Life

Guo learned to play the violin autodidactically and studied the traditional music of his home region Sichuan and shamanic rituals during the time of the Cultural Revolution . From 1970 to 1977 he played the violin and drums in the music and dance group in his hometown. In 1978 he was one of one hundred of 17,000 applicants who were accepted at the newly opened Beijing Central Conservatory. In contrast to fellow students such as Tan Dun , Chen Yi and Zhou Long , apart from a short study visit to New York, he never left China. Since the early 1980s he has also been internationally known as a composer. In 1990 he became a professor at the Beijing Central Conservatory, and in 1998 he became head of its composition department.

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His chamber operas have become internationally known : Wolf Cub Village, based on the diary of a madman by Lu Xun , premiered at the 1994 Holland Festival . Night Banquet , inspired by the painting Night Revels of Han Xizai , was first produced at the Almeida Theater in London in 1998 , and a second version was then shown in Paris, Berlin, New York and Perth. Fengyiting, on the other hand, was composed in 2004 and influenced by the Peking Opera and the Sichuan Opera, and was premiered at the Concertgebouw Amsterdam. Guo has also composed orchestral works, including a concerto for Erhu , a concerto for Sheng , Journeys for soprano and orchestra (2004, based on poems by Xi Chuan ) and Shexi for violin and ensemble (2013). His most successful chamber music works include Drama (1995) and its sequel Parade (2004), both for three percussionists who also speak and sing. He has also composed music for more than forty films and television shows, including Riding Alone for Thousands of Miles by Zhang Yimou , In the Heat of the Sun by Jiang Wen , Red Powder by Li Shaohong , King of Chess by Teng Wenji and the characters for the opening ceremony the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing.

literature

• Frank Kouwenhoven:  Guo Wenjing. In: Grove Music Online (English; subscription required).

swell

• Casa Ricordi - Wenjing Guo
• Percussion Quartet Cologne - Guo Wenjing
• Universal Music Publishing Classical - Guo, Wenjing
• Guo Wenjing in the Internet Movie Database (English)

Individual evidence

1. ^ ^{A b} Universal Music Publishing Classical - Guo, Wenjing

Note: This article places the family name before the person's first name. This is the usual order in Chinese. Guo is the family name here, Wenjing is the first name.