Yao Guanrong, conductor.
A native of Zhenhai (now Ningbo), Zhejiang.
In 1961, he graduated from the Conducting Department of the Leipzig Hochschule für Musik in the Democratic Republic of Germany.
He returned to China in the same year and served successively as the director and chief conductor of the Beijing Film Orchestra and the chief conductor of the Shenzhen Special Economic Zone Orchestra.
He served as conductor of Beethoven's Third, Fifth and Sixth Symphonies and Brahms's Second Symphony.
There is a translation of Berlioz's "Methods of Orchestration".
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The "Finishing Touch" of the Movie 2006-03-14 11:23:59 From: Zhao Xinmei (Suzhou) Tomorrow, November 4, 2005, a film concert to commemorate the centenary of Chinese film will be held at the Guangzhou Xinghai Concert Hall.
What is striking is that the person holding the baton is an old Shenzhen man who is in his seventies but still has an elegant demeanor - Yao Guanrong, the chairman of the Shenzhen Musicians Association and the famous conductor.
The name Yao Guanrong will certainly be familiar to viewers who are familiar with modern and contemporary Chinese films.
In more than 200 Chinese films from the 1960s to the 1990s, his name can be found in the credits of the soundtrack conductor.
Yao Guanrong, who has served as chief conductor of the Central New Film Orchestra and China Film Orchestra for 20 years, has become the most outstanding conductor in the field of Chinese film music conducting together with Shanghai Film's Chen Chuanxi and Changying Film's Yin Shengshan.
In a sense, Yao Guanrong is an indelible figure in the history of Chinese film music.
Not long ago, Yao Guanrong just won the "Special Contribution Award for Contemporary Chinese Film Music" at the "Celebration to Commemorate the Centenary of Chinese Film" hosted by the China Film Foundation, China Film Music Society, etc. His status in the history of Chinese film music has been publicly recognized
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A few days ago, reporters interviewed Yao Guanrong, a legend of film music, at his home in Meilin Village, Shenzhen. He talked about his decades-long relationship with film music and the Shenzhen Symphony, recalling those golden years of film and music.
Music life.
“Musical bloodline” comes from the Rhine River Although Yao Guanrong’s name is famous in the history of Chinese film music, many people don’t know that this conductor was one of the first batch of music students sent abroad by the New China.
In the birthplace of Western classical music on the Rhine River, Yao Guanrong received the true inheritance of the European music tradition from Bach and Beethoven, which laid a solid foundation for him to develop his ambitions in the fields of Chinese film music and symphony.
Yao Guanrong, who was born in the flames of the Anti-Japanese War, experienced the pain of displacement in his childhood. He followed his parents to Hubei, Yunnan, Shanghai, and Fujian.
Although only his father could play the traditional Chinese instrument Yueqin in the family, Yao Guanrong planted the seeds of music under the influence of Anti-Japanese War music.
He still remembers that in Kunming, Yunnan in 1940, when he was only 5 years old, he followed the parade on the street and sang the theme song "March of the Volunteers" from the movie "Children of the Storm".
After the Anti-Japanese War, Yao Guanrong entered Shanghai Jiancheng Middle School, and a female music teacher named Tan Ling became his first music teacher.
Teacher Tan discovered Yao Guanrong's musical potential and recommended him to become a young conductor of the school choir.
After that, Yao Guanrong took the school choir to the Tianchan Stage, the most famous stage in Shanghai at that time.
Half a century later, Yao Guanrong met Teacher Tan in Guangzhou. Teacher Tan still clearly remembered Yao Guanrong's "disciplined conductor and outstanding musical talent."
In 1954, relying on his innate talent and unremitting efforts, Yao Guanrong was admitted to the Composition Department of Shanghai Conservatory of Music.
One year after enrolling, the country will select a group of students to study abroad in Eastern Europe. Yao Guanrong, who has excellent academic performance, is a key training target of the country and goes to Germany to study. He becomes the first batch of international music students in New China and studies in the Conducting Department of the Leipzig Conservatory of Music in Germany.
Leipzig is a city of music. Bach, the "father of classical music," lived in Leipzig for 27 years. Mendelssohn, Tchaikovsky, Wagner, Strauss, etc. also left their musical footprints here.
Yao Guanrong still remembers that the stamp on his diploma was Bach’s image.
In Leipzig, Yao Guanrong absorbed the essence of classical music almost greedily.
After graduation, he entered the Higher Conservatory of Music in Weimar, Germany, where he studied under the world-famous conductor Hermann Scherchen.
Xie Xing often said: "If there is a problem in the band performance, the first responsibility lies with the conductor." Such teachings will be remembered by Yao Guanrong for the rest of his life.
The six-year study abroad career has provided Yao Guanrong with rich musical qualities and cultivated his diligent professionalism, which has become his inexhaustible spiritual wealth.
The "Leader" of Chinese Film Music In 1961, with the lofty ambition of serving the motherland, Yao Guanrong returned to China after completing his studies.
He came to serve as the conductor of the newly founded Central News Documentary Film Studio Orchestra, and his main task was to record soundtracks for newly released domestic films.
Yao Guanrong worked here for 24 years. He conducted more than 200 film music and other symphony orchestras such as the New Film Orchestra (later renamed the China Film Orchestra) and made outstanding contributions to the development of China's film industry. He was once
An article in Popular Film magazine affectionately called him the "leader" of Chinese film music.