Wu Wenguang
Lineage & School of Heritage
He was trained in the family tradition from childhood, studying the qin under his father, the renowned qin master Wu Jinglue.
Mastery, Signature Works & Repertoire
Male, of Han ethnicity, born in 1946 in Changshu, Jiangsu. He studied successively at the attached middle school of the Central Conservatory of Music and in the guqin programme of the Chinese Music Department of the China Conservatory of Music. He has transcribed dozens of qin pieces, including Jie Shi Diao: You Lan (Solitary Orchid in the Stone Tablet Mode), Li Sao (The Sorrow of Parting), Qiu Hong (Autumn Geese), Da Hu Jia (The Great Barbarian Reed Pipe), Xiao Hu Jia (The Little Barbarian Reed Pipe), Lie Zi Yu Feng (Liezi Rides the Wind), and Guan Ju (The Calling Ospreys). He is a professor and doctoral supervisor at the China Conservatory of Music and formerly served as director of its Museum of National Music. He has published the transcriptions of two generations of his family, The Wu Family Qin Scores of Yushan (Oriental Press), and has recorded solo albums including Flowing Water, Yang Chun (Sunny Spring), Master of the Guqin Wu Wenguang, Qin Tong Qian Ying, and Lie Zi Yu Feng.
Honors & Recognition
National representative bearer of Guqin and its Music, a second-batch national intangible cultural heritage project. In 1978 he entered the graduate division of the Chinese Academy of Arts to study Chinese music history and qin art, and in 1981 he received a master's degree in literature. In 1985 he went to the United States and later obtained a doctorate in ethnomusicology from Wesleyan University.
References & Archival Sources
Representative Items of This Bearer
- Guqin and its Music Ⅱ-34
- Guqin and its Music Ⅱ-34
- Guqin and its Music Ⅱ-34
- Guqin and its Music Ⅱ-34
- Guqin and its Music Ⅱ-34
- Guqin and its Music Ⅱ-34
- Guqin and its Music Ⅱ-34
- Guqin and its Music Ⅱ-34
- Guqin and its Music Ⅱ-34
- Guqin and its Music Ⅱ-34
- Guqin and its Music Ⅱ-34
- Guqin and its Music Ⅱ-34
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