Xin Qinghua
Mastery, Signature Works & Repertoire
A National Class One composer for Kunqu. After graduating from the Xiasheng Drama School in 1945, he remained there as a teacher. In 1952 he transferred to the Peking Opera Experimental School of the East China Xiqu Research Institute and the East China Peking Opera Troupe. In 1954 he was transferred to the Shanghai Xiqu School, where he served as a composer in its research office. After the Shanghai Kunqu Opera Troupe was founded in 1978, he served as a composer in its artistic office.
Honors & Recognition
Male, Han ethnicity, born in February 1929 in Xuzhou, Jiangsu Province; he died in September 2015. National representative bearer of Kunqu Opera, a third-batch national intangible cultural heritage project. He devoted himself over the long term to Kunqu music teaching and composition, writing music for a large number of staged productions and attaining considerable distinction in the inheritance, innovation and development of Kunqu music. He composed music for modern plays such as Hong Song Lin (The Red Pine Forest), Shuang Jiao Zi (Teaching Two Sons) and Qiong Hua (The Qiong Flower), and for Kunqu productions including Cai Wenji (in collaboration with Fu Xueyi), Tang Tai Zong (in collaboration with Fu Xueyi), Chai Tou Feng (The Phoenix Hairpin), Mu Dan Ting (The Peony Pavilion), Zhan Hua Kui (Claiming the Courtesan), Xin Hu Die Meng (A New Butterfly Dream), Si Ma Xiang Ru and Qiong Hua. Among these, Chai Tou Feng won the Composition Award at the First Shanghai Drama Festival, and Qiong Hua received the Kong Sanzhuan Outstanding Music Composition Award at the First Chinese Xiqu Music Awards held by the Chinese Xiqu Music Society in 1992.
References & Archival Sources
Representative Items of This Bearer
- Kun Qu Opera Ⅳ-1
- Kun Qu Opera Ⅳ-1
- Kun Qu Opera Ⅳ-1
- Kun Qu Opera Ⅳ-1
- Kun Qu Opera Ⅳ-1
- Kun Qu Opera Ⅳ-1
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