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A native of Zhuji in Zhejiang, He Zhan Hao was born in 1933. He played in the orchestra of the Zhejiang Yueju Opera Troupe, later entering the Shanghai Conservatory of Music as a violin student. Together with several classmates, he formed a violin experimental group. The Butterfly Lovers emerged as a creative product of the group’s musical experiments. After graduation, he transferred to the Composition Department to study under Ding Shan De. His other major works include the string quartet Martyr’s Diary and the symphonic poem Longhua Pagoda.
He Zhanhao is a composer and now teaches at the Shanghai Conservatory of Music. Mr. He is well known for his violin concerto “The Butterfly Lovers” – a classic in the Chinese music history and a must-play piece during international performances targeted at introducing audience to Chinese music.
A survey conducted By a Hong Kong radio station in 2001 asked participants to rank top 10 popular tracks of classic music within the last 1000 years. “The Butterfly Lovers” were on the list with other worldwide masterpieces from Beethoven and Tchaikovsky, et cetera.
After the creation of the Butterfly Lovers, Mr. He strived to modernize traditional Chinese music by creating variants of Chinese classic tracks. Examples are Gaohu Concerto “the Butterfly Lovers”, Erhu Concerto “Chaotic Situation” and “Hard to Bid Farewell”, Erhu and Orchestra “Fantasy of a Worried Woman”, and Chinese traditional orchestra “Yili River Bank”, “Horse Race”, Chinese Zheng Concerto “Southeast flying Peacock” and other works performed by traditional instruments.
Mr. He claims himself as a “pioneer ”, “To a pioneer who explores and experiments the unknowns, successes and failures always come hand in hand, and either one of them offers the younger generation a valuable lesson and an opportunity to gain experience.” Mr. He suggests that exploration is always his main theme, and he will continue what he has been doing as long as the public supports and likes his works.
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Type: Person Male
Period: 1933.8.29 - ..
Age: 91 years
Area :China
Occupation :Composer
Periods :Modernist Music