Hey Lüting

He Lüting , also He Luting ( Chinese  賀綠汀  /  贺绿汀 , Pinyin Hè Lùtīng ; * July 20, 1903 , † April 27, 1999 ) was a Chinese composer of the 20th century. He has been composing songs for Chinese films since the 1930s, some of which have remained popular.

At the Shanghai Music Academy he won a competition with his composition Die Flöte des Büffeljungen ( 牧童 () in 1934, which was sponsored and evaluated by the Russian composer Alexander Nikolajewitsch Tscherepnin .

His best-known compositions are The Song of the Four Seasons (四季歌) and The Wandering Songstress (天涯 歌女, with lyrics by Tian Han ), both composed for the 1937 film Street Angel and sung by Zhou Xuan .

In September 1949 Lüting was appointed director of the Shanghai Music Academy.

In late 1965, Jiang Qing , Mao Zedong's fourth wife, initiated the anti-Western crusade of the Cultural Revolution, and a wave of terror struck every sector of society. In the spirit of proletarian solidarity, all "bourgeois" artists were subjected to public humiliation and some chose suicide as a way out. An amazing event took place on Chinese television: He Lüting, who was attacked by a proletarian critic for defending Claude Debussy's music , was subjected to questioning under torture but refused to apologize. He shouted, “Your allegations are false! Be ashamed of your lies! ” Alex Ross remarked that no composer could have taken a more valiant stand against totalitarianism.

In 1984 Lüting retired and received the title of Honorary Director. The main concert hall of the Shanghai University of Music was named after He Lüting.

Works

Piano works

• Mu tong duan di牧童 短笛web
• Yao lan qu搖籃曲web

Orchestral works

• Sen ji de ma森吉德瑪 (Sangye Dolma) web
• Wan hui晚會

Movie songs

• Chun tian li春天 裏web
• Si ji ge四季歌
• Tian ya ge nü天涯 歌女web

Songs

• Partisan song web
• Ken chun ni墾 春泥
• Jia ling jiang shang嘉陵江 上

Individual evidence

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4. ↑ Alex Ross: The Rest Is Noise: Listening To The Twentieth Century . Farrar, Straus and Girous, 2007, ISBN 978-0-374-24939-7 , p. 518.
5. ↑ [3] Archive link ( Memento of the original from February 27, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 

Web links

• Constructing Nationhood in Modern East Asia in google book search

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