MA, SICONG (1912 - 1987)
Ma Sicong was born in 1912 in southern China. His career as a composer and a violinist began his instrumental study and present of folk-music when he was at primary school in Guangzhou
In 1923, at the age of eleven, he went to France for the first time to study the violin there, returning...
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Ma Sicong was born in 1912 in southern China. His career as a composer and a violinist began his instrumental study and present of folk-music when he was at primary school in Guangzhou
In 1923, at the age of eleven, he went to France for the first time to study the violin there, returning to China in 1929, after finishing his studies. As one of China’s first violinists, he gave concerts in Shanghai, Nanjing, Guangzhou and other places. In 1930 he went to France for the second time to study composition. A year later he was again in China, now prepared to begin his career as a composer. After the foundation of the People’s Republic of China, he held the positions as director of the China Central Conservatory of Music, vice-chairman of the China Musicians Association and chief editor of the periodical Yinyue Chuangzuo ('Creation of Music'). From the late 1960s he lived in the United States. His important works include two symphonies, the orchestral suite Song of the Mountain Forest, the cantatas Democracy, Motherland, Spring and The Huaihe River, violin pieces Berceuse, Rondo No. 1, Inner Mongolia Suite, Tibet Tone Poem, Idyll, Lantern Festival Celebration and Xinjiang Rhapsody, two compilations of New Versions of Folk-Songs and many other compositions. During his residence in the United States, he wrote music for the ballet Sunset Clouds and composed the opera Rebia.
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