Wang Luobin
| Wang Luobin | |||
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| Chinese name | 王洛賓 (traditional) | ||
| Chinese name | 王洛宾 (simplified) | ||
| Origin | People's Republic of China (China) | ||
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December 28, 1913 Beijing |
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| Died | March 14, 1996 (aged 82) | ||
| Occupation | Songwriter | ||
| Genre(s) | Chinese folk music | ||
| Spouse(s) | Huang Yulan | ||
| Children | Wang Haiyan, Wang Haixing, Wang Haicheng | ||
| Influenced by | music of Xinjiang | ||
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Wang Luobin (王洛宾; 28 December 1913 – 14 March 1996) was a renowned Chinese songwriter. He specialized in publishing Mandarin-language songs based on the music of various ethnic minorities in western China.
Wang was born in Beijing on 28 December 1913. He graduated from the Music Department of Beijing Normal University in 1934 and actively participated in the Second Sino-Japanese War on China's behalf beginning in 1937 in Shanxi Province. In 1938, in Lanzhou in Gansu Province, Wang published his first Xinjiang-inspired song, "The Girl from Dabancheng". He took up residence in northwestern China for more than 50 years since then, and devoted his time there to transcribing, adapting, collecting and revising western Chinese folk songs. In all, Wang wrote seven operas and edited six songbooks, and published some 700 Xinjiang-style songs, the most famous of which include "Alamuhan" (阿拉木汗, inspired by a Uyghur song), "Awariguli" (also supposedly an Uyghur song), "Flowers and Youth" (pinyin: Hua'er Yu Shaonian, a Hui Muslim folk song), "In that place wholly faraway" (a song from Qinghai Province), "Lift Your Veil" (掀起你的盖头来), "Duldal and Maria" (a Kazakh folk song), "Mayila", and "The Crescent Moon Rises" (半个月亮爬上来; pinyin: Ban Ge Yueliang Pa Shang Lai).
Wang began to win accolades for his work towards the end of his life. In 1993, "At a Faraway Place" and "The Crescent Moon Rises" were selected as the Chinese music classics of the 20th century. A year later, in July 1994, Wang received the Award for Outstanding Contributions to the Exchange of Western and Eastern Cultures from UNESCO. Wang was made the honorary town head of Dabancheng in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region by the local government in December of that year.
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