Zhang Feng
Mastery, Signature Works & Repertoire
Male, of Han ethnicity, born in 1925 in Linyi, Shanxi. Zhang Feng began working on Puzhou clapper opera music in the early 1950s. He was the first musician of the genre to record its vocal melodies in numbered musical notation, melodies that until then had been passed on only by word of mouth from veteran artists. His representative musical works include Li Shuangshuang, Yan Yan, and Dou E Yuan (The Injustice Done to Dou E), and he has published a number of scholarly books, among them The Music of Puzhou Clapper Opera and A Compendium of Puzhou Clapper Opera Vocal Melodies.
Honors & Recognition
A national representative bearer of Puzhou bangzi (Puzhou clapper opera), a second-batch national intangible cultural heritage project; a national first-class composer. Zhang Feng long served as composer at the Linfen Puzhou Opera Theatre of Shanxi Province, passing on the music of Puzhou clapper opera both through collaboration and by taking on apprentices, and he has trained many composers and instrumentalists for the genre.
References & Archival Sources
Representative Items of This Bearer
- Puzhoubangzi Ⅳ-19
- Puzhoubangzi Ⅳ-19
Profile
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