For one person to visit a city | Chuansha was born to musician Huang Zi

Huang Zi was the most important composer and music educator in China in the 1930s, and he trained he Luting, Chen Tianhe, Jiang Dingxian, Liu Xue'an and other first batch of professional music talents in modern China, and was the founder of early music education in China. Pudong Chuansha "Neishidi" is not only the former residence of Huang Yanpei, but also the birthplace of Huang Zi.

Pictured: Chuansha "Neishidi" Xinmin Evening News reporter Cai Jin photographed

"Schubert of China"

　　"The snow is clear, the plums are fragrant everywhere, riding a donkey dam bridge, the bells are jingling", the composer of this famous nursery rhyme "Stepping on the Snow and Looking for Plums" is Huang Zi, who is known as "China's Schubert". The folk song "The Words of the West Wind", which was covered by a number of pop singers, was also a song written by Huang Zi in the 1930s.

　　Born in 1904 in Chuansha, Pudong, Huang Zi studied at Chuansha Elementary School in Pudong, entered Tsinghua Xuetang in Beijing at the age of 12, went to the United States at the age of 20 to study psychology at Oberlin College in the United States, and then transferred to yale Music School to study composition. At Yale, Huang Zi's graduation symphonic overture, Nostalgia, was premiered by his mentor, Smith Smith, dean of the Yale School of Music, composer, and conductor. Nostalgia is the first symphonic work created by a Chinese composer and the first Chinese work performed by a foreign orchestra.

　　Since returning to China in 1929, Huang has successively taught in the Department of Music of Shanghai Hujiang University, the Theoretical Composition Group of the National Music College (the predecessor of the Shanghai Conservatory of Music), and concurrently served as the director of the Music College, enthusiastic about the cause of music education, and cultivated many outstanding musical talents, among which Jiang Dingxian, Liu Xue'an, He Luting, and Chen Tianhe were known as Huang Zi's "four great disciples".

　　Huang Zi composed anti-Japanese salvation songs such as "Anti-Enemy Song" and "Flag Fluttering", and his "Long Hate Song" is the earliest oratorio drama in China. In addition, Huang Zi also founded China's first music weekly magazine and served as editor-in-chief, initiating the organization of China's first symphony orchestra composed entirely of Chinese performers, the Shanghai Orchestra. Unfortunately, in May 1938, Huang Died of Illness at the age of 34.

Born in "Nescidi"

　　"Neishidi" is located at No. 218, Xinchuan Road, Chuansha New Town, Pudong, formerly known as the Shen Family Compound, which was built by shen shuyong, a sichuan sand literati. In the ninth year of Qing Xianfeng (1859), Shen Shuyong was raised to the cabinet, and the Shen family compound was renamed "Neishidi". "Neishidi" sits north and faces south, is a three-entry, two-courtyard, two-compartment two-story brick and wood house, and the gatehouse is a typical late Qing Dynasty architectural design style. "Neishidi" was rebuilt in 2013, and after the restoration, it was restored to the original three-entry courtyard, and Huang Yanpei's former residence was located in "Neishidi".

　　Huang Yanpei's grandmother was the younger sister of Shen Shuyong, and Huang Yanpei was born and raised in the "Neishidi". Huang Zi is The nephew of Huang Yanpei, who was born in 1904 in the south room on the second floor of the east wing of the "Neishidi". Today, one of the exhibits of "Neishidi" is a 1930s Strauss piano, which is an old piano that Huang played since that year, and the children of the Huang family heard that "Neishidi" was restored and specially donated this piano.

　　Xinmin Evening News reporter Shen Qihua