Wang Luobin王洛賓

Wang Luobin王洛賓 was born on December 28, 1913, in a family of ordinary workers in Beijing. At the age of 7, he entered Beijing's "Eight Banners Higher Primary School" and at the age of 12, he was admitted to Luhe Middle School in Tong County, Beijing. His original name was Wang Rongting, and he used to be named Aiyi Nidin. After the July Incident, Beijing fell. He went south to join the Eighth Route Army and changed his name to Wang Luobin. Wang Luobin began to collect, organize, compile and publish folk songs from western China in 1937. These songs were sung by many Chinese people in the name of Xinjiang folk songs. It was not until 1983 that the "Luobin Song Collection" was officially published by Gansu People's Publishing House. Known as the "King of Western Singers". After he adapted the first Xinjiang folk song "The Girl from Dabancheng" in Lanzhou in 1938, he formed an indissoluble bond with western folk songs. In 1941, Wang Luobin was arrested by Kuomintang agents for promoting anti-Japanese aggression and was imprisoned in Lanzhou Shagou Prison. up to one year. In September 1949, he joined the Chinese People's Liberation Army and was appointed deputy section chief of the Literature and Art Section of the Propaganda Department of the First Corps. In January 1950, he was appointed as the section chief of the Literature and Art Section of the Xinjiang Military Region, and translated and published the "Collection of Latest Soviet Songs". In May 1950, Wang Luobin took leave to visit relatives in Xining and took his family to Lanzhou to work. Because his family difficulties could not be solved, he wrote to the Political Department of the Xinjiang Military Region asking to resign. In November 1950, he returned to Beijing with his family and taught at Beijing No. 8 Middle School. He was elected as a member of the Standing Committee of the Beijing Federation of Music and Education. In June 1951, at the request of the Xinjiang Military Region, Wang Luobin was arrested by the Beijing Municipal Public Security Bureau. His wife was frightened and became bedridden, leaving behind three uncared-for sons. In February 1952, the Xinjiang Military Region's Military Justice Division sentenced him to two years of hard labor for spreading rumors and failing to return after long-term leave. During his service, he completed the composition of the drama "Harvest" and composed a number of songs. After his release in August 1954, he was assigned to work as a teacher in the Art Troupe of the Southern Xinjiang Military Region. In April 1960, Wang Luobin was imprisoned in Urumqi No. 1 Prison for 15 years due to historical issues. In prison, Wang Luobin used amazing perseverance to create a large number of musical works in extremely difficult conditions. He was released from prison in May 1975, when he was 62 years old. In April 1979, at the request of Xiao Hua, political commissar of the Lanzhou Military Region, Wang Luobin went to the Lanzhou Military Region Combat Song and Dance Ensemble to help work, where he composed the large-scale opera "Blooded Necklace". The program participated in the 30th anniversary of the founding of the People's Republic of China and won second place in the art performance. Award. On November 29, 1979, the Urumqi Military Region Military Court revoked the verdict against him in 1961, and the Xinjiang Military Region held a rehabilitation meeting for Wang Luobin on July 6, 1981. The following month, "Xinjiang Art" published the article "Composing a New Song from Today" by Xinhua News Agency reporter Zhao Quanzhang. This was the first article reported by a news agency on Wang Luobin after he was released from prison. Since then, Wang Luobin's songs have been published one after another in the form of song collections. His songs have been frequently performed at concerts and have been widely circulated at home and abroad. He himself is revered as the "King of Northwest Singers" , "Father of Folk Song". Wang Luobin's songs are beautiful and extended, deeply loved by the masses and full of national flavor. He composed "Kangding Love Song", "Half Moon Climbs Up", "Mayila", "In That Far Place", "Alam Khan", "Yaksi", "The Girl of Daban City", etc. It is a household name in China, and many of its songs have been included in university vocal music textbooks. Wang Luobin's visit to the United States in June 1994 aroused an upsurge in reception from the local Chinese community. Wang Luobin performed on stage at the age of 82 at a concert in Shenzhen. At these concerts, the song "The Girl from Dabancheng", which was born in Lanzhou more than 50 years ago, is indispensable. In his later years, Wang Luobin had a close relationship with the writer San Mao. Wang Luobin died of gallbladder adenocarcinoma in the Urumqi Military Region General Hospital on March 14, 1996 at the age of 83.