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Wang Xilin ( Chinese: 王西麟; pinyin: Wáng Xīlín; born December 13, 1936) is a Chinese composer. Life. Wang was born in Kaifeng, Henan province and spent his childhood in Pingliang in the Gansu Province. When he was 12 he taught himself music theory, the huqin, accordion, brass instruments, as well as instrumentation and arranging.
Wang Xilin ( b.1936 ) is one of the most significant composer in China and the contracted composer of Schott Music. Wang’s oeuvres included over 60 compositi...
Wang Xilin, 86, is one of China’s most important modern classical composers. During the Cultural Revolution he was the target of severe persecution, enduring beatings, imprisonment and torture. The film exhibits the body and soul of a man scarred by a life of suffering, a “man in black” who is yet still capable of deep and sincere compassion.
Dec 11, 2015 · BEIJING — When the composer Wang Xilin’s haunting requiem for the souls of China’s millions of World War II dead rings out in Beijing on Sunday, half a century will have passed since he first...
May 22, 2023 · This is Wang Xilin, one of China’s leading classical composers, laid bare. The camera follows as he makes his way to the stage, entering a key light. It pans around his feet, circles...
- Matthew Carey
Described by one German music critic as one of the most original voices in China, his story is a compelling one that shows his own personal struggles, as an ordinary person of modest means, against oppressive ruling powers: Coming from a poor family background, Wang could not study the music that he wanted to due to government restrictions, was ...
A Letter form Professor V. N. Kholopova. Coming to China, I found here the genuine and vivid developer of the tradition of our great compatriot Dmitri Dmitrievich Shostakovich—Wang Xilin, one of the leading composers of China, an experienced master.
