Liu Tianhua

Liu Tianhua (Ch刘天华/刘天华; born February 4, 1895 in Chengjiang, Jiangyin, Jiangsu Province, † June 8, 1932 in Beijing) was a Chinese music teacher, musician, and one of the first, the Western compositional techniques in the traditionally improvised Chinese Music anwandte.

Biography

In a modern -oriented home grown, Liu Tianhua was in middle school in touch with music and soon mastered some western instruments. After the Xinhai Revolution in 1911, he worked as a musician in an opera troupe and also learned to play the piano.

While working as a music teacher at a middle school in Changzhou he learned the folk music of Jiangnan know and made it to the new center of his music interest. When selected traditional masters he learned the erhu and pipa, and the Qin in Henan. He began to collect traditional music, and began to compose their own Erhustücke.

1922 Liu Tianhua went to Beijing where he taught at the newly established Institute of Music (Beijing Daxue Yinyue chuanxi Suo, Institute for Music tradition and practice of Peking University ). In addition to teaching Western and Chinese music, he gained further folk music and wrote pieces for traditional instruments in the structures of Western music were incorporated.

At 37, he died of a probably misdiagnosed disease.