Tu Wen-Hui

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Tu Wen-Hui (born July 10, 1964 in Taipei , Republic of China (Taiwan) ) is a Taiwanese composer of Chinese music .

Career

Tu Wen-Hui started taking music lessons at the age of six . According to her, as a child she grew up mainly listening to European music. “During that time only the music from Europe was on my mind,” she says. From 1971 to 1979 she attended elementary and secondary school in Taipei, the capital of Taiwan , and at the same time the Yamaha Children's Music School. At the age of fourteen (1978) she began to study composition with Yin Chan-Fa and Lu Yin at the National Academy of the Arts in Taiwan, where Western-oriented European music was also taught. From 1980 she received private lessons in harmony and counterpoint from Shen Ching-Tan . She deepened her interest in the Chinese music of her home country by studying Peking Opera and learned the Chinese violin Hu Qing (or Guqin ). After winning a national composition competition in Taiwan in 1984, the 20-year-old composer moved to the Vienna Music Academy in Europe , where she studied composition with Francis Burt . The German composer Brunhilde Sonntag describes how Tu Wen-Hui describes Chinese music:

“Our music is closely related to philosophy and aesthetics . There are many small notes to decorate a melody . We have a rich counterpoint, but not the same kind of harmony as the Europeans. The feeling for speed development is also very different from that in Europe in the last few centuries. Chinese think differently about and in music than Europeans, and we compose completely differently. "

Tu Wen-Hui's great role model is the Chinese composer Chou Wen-chung , who has knowledge of ancient Chinese music.

On the Chinese musical aesthetic

Bong Rai Liu wrote about this that the first principle is intensity . The dualistic principle , known in Europe as Yin-Yang , also plays a major role . It means tension-relaxation, dark-light, the creative and the receiving. As people perceive these qualities in music, they create a feeling of joy and harmony. Harmony is considered to be the center of music and philosophy in China.

Awards and promotions

Works (as of 1987)

Printing: Score and individual parts, Furore Verlag Kassel c. 1995

literature

Brunhilde Sunday: Tu Wen-Hui. I won't be a good European composer, I'll be a good Chinese one. In: Brunhilde Sonntag, Renate Matthei (Ed.): Approach III - to seven female composers. Furore Verlag , Kassel 1987, ISBN 3-9801326-5-X , pp. 50-57.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d Brunhilde Sunday: Tu Wen-Hui. I won't be a good European composer, I'll be a good Chinese one. 1987, p. 54.
  2. ↑ It is unclear which instrument is meant by “Chinese violin Hu Quing”: the former is canceled, the latter is plucked.
  3. ↑ Brunhilde Sunday: Tu Wen-Hui. I won't be a good European composer, I'll be a good Chinese one. 1987, p. 52.
  4. ↑ Brunhilde Sunday: Tu Wen-Hui. I won't be a good European composer, I'll be a good Chinese one. 1987, p. 56.
  5. ↑ From a text passage on Chinese music in: Brunhilde Sonntag: Tu Wen-Hui. I won't be a good European composer, I'll be a good Chinese one. 1987, p. 53.
Note: This article places the family name before the person's first name. This is the usual order in Chinese. Tu is the family name here, Wen-Hui is the first name.
personal data
SURNAME Tu Wen-Hui
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Taiwanese composer
DATE OF BIRTH July 10, 1964
PLACE OF BIRTH Taipei