Lin Youren (; August 11, 1938 - October 12, 2013 Announcement at guqin.cc) was a noted player of the

Chinese musical instrument Chinese musical instruments are traditionally grouped into eight categories known as (). The eight categories are silk, bamboo, wood, stone, metal, clay, gourd and skin; other instruments considered traditional exist that may not fit these group ...

guqin The ''guqin'' (; ) is a plucked seven-string Chinese musical instrument. It has been played since ancient times, and has traditionally been favoured by scholars and Scholar-bureaucrats, literati as an instrument of great subtlety and refinemen ...

. He was famous for his unaffected playing style. Lin also taught guqin at the

Shanghai Conservatory of Music The Shanghai Conservatory of Music () was founded on November 27, 1927, as the first music institution of higher education in China. Its teachers and students have won awards at home and abroad, thus earning the conservatory the name "the crad ...

. Lin was born on August 11, 1938 in

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, China, but was brought up in nearby

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. Early on in his musical development, Lin studied with Liu Shaochun (1901–71). He entered the Shanghai Conservatory of Music in 1958 to study the guqin. He was influenced by the playing styles of Liu Jingshao, Gu Meigeng, Shen Caonong, and Wei Zhongle in particular. He graduated in 1963 and stayed at the Conservatory and began research on guqin history and Chinese music after returning from Heilongjiang in the early 1970s during the "Cultural Revolution". Lin gave guqin recitals in Taiwan, Hong Kong, Japan, France, the United Kingdom and the United States.

Partial discography

*Appreciation of Tang Poetry Quatrains 1995 *Music For The Qin Zither 2000 (recorded in the UK)

References

External links

BBC - Changing China leaves guqin behindGreenwich Chinese Online: Lin Youren UK concert
1938 births 2013 deaths Guqin players People's Republic of China musicians Musicians from Shanghai {{China-musician-stub

Partial discography

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