Li Xiangting
Lineage & School of Heritage
In 1957 he studied the qin under Zha Fuxi, and he studied traditional Chinese painting under Pu Xuezhai and Pan Su. In 1958 he was admitted to the Central Conservatory of Music, where he studied the qin under Wu Jinglue.
Mastery, Signature Works & Repertoire
Male, of Manchu ethnicity, born in 1940 in Liaoyuan, Jilin. He graduated in 1963 and remained at the conservatory to teach; in 1989 he went to the University of Cambridge in Britain to research qin improvisation and served as a visiting research fellow at the Music Research Centre of the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, teaching the qin and the dongxiao. In October 1994 he returned to the Central Conservatory of Music to continue teaching. He is the author of A Practical Course in the Guqin (Shanghai Conservatory of Music Press) and has recorded more than ten solo albums, including The Guqin Art of Li Xiangting, You Ju (Secluded Dwelling), and Shui Lian (Water Lily); he has given more than fifty solo recitals in Britain, the United States, France, Germany, and other countries as well as in Hong Kong, Macao, and Taiwan.
Honors & Recognition
National representative bearer of Guqin and its Music, a second-batch national intangible cultural heritage project. He is currently a professor at the Central Conservatory of Music and honorary president of the Guqin Professional Committee of the Chinese Nationalities Orchestra Society.
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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