Beijing News (Reporter Liu Zhen) On July 26, the Beijing Philharmonic Chorus issued an obituary, the founder of the Beijing Philharmonic Chorus, a famous conductor and music educator in China, a lifelong academic member of the Central Conservatory of Music, and a professor of the Conducting Department Yang Hongnian , Due to ineffective medical treatment, died in Beijing at 13:55 on July 26, 2020 at the age of 86.
The picture comes from the official website of the Beijing Philharmonic Chorus.
Yang Hongnian was born in 1934 in Nanjing, Jiangsu. He loved music since childhood. In 1951, he served as the conductor of the chorus of Nanjing People’s Broadcasting Station. In the autumn of 1951, he was admitted to the Music Department of East China Normal University, under the tutelage of Professor Yang Jiaren and German conductor Hizmann. He also studied musical styles, former Soviet expert Arzamanov, Polyphony. In 1958, he taught in the Music Department of Beijing Normal University of Arts. In 1973, he was transferred to the Composition Department and Conducting Department of the Central Conservatory of Music.
Yang Hongnian founded the Beijing Philharmonic Chorus in 1983. For more than 30 years, he has been adhering to the tenet of "love and dedication" and led this chorus to sing all over the world, and has won dozens of awards in important competitions at home and abroad. He has directed performances of more than 30 groups including the Central Orchestra Chorus, the Central National Song and Dance Ensemble, the Oriental Song and Dance Ensemble, and the Shanghai Chorus, and held many symphony and chorus concerts. His books include "Orchestra Training", "Chorus Training", "Two Song Writing", "Children's Song Collection" (Volumes 1 and 2), and thesis "On Chorus Intonation Issues", "On the Sound Hierarchical Layout of Orchestral Music", and translated works "The Chorus Orchestration Act" and "Debussy's Harmony Language", etc.