Wang Hesheng (; born

Luoyang Luoyang ( zh, s=洛阳, t=洛陽, p=Luòyáng) is a city located in the confluence area of the Luo River and the Yellow River in the west of Henan province, China. Governed as a prefecture-level city, it borders the provincial capital of Zheng ...

, 27 December 1955) is a composer of the

Military Band A military band is a group of personnel that performs musical duties for military functions, usually for the armed forces. A typical military band consists mostly of wind instrument, wind and percussion instruments. The conducting, conductor of a ...

of the

People's Liberation Army The People's Liberation Army (PLA) is the military of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) and the People's Republic of China (PRC). It consists of four Military branch, services—People's Liberation Army Ground Force, Ground Force, People's ...

of China, also a member of Chinese Musicians Association. In 1985, he studied composition from Professor

Mu Hong Mu Hong (; born December 1956) is a Chinese economist and official, who is currently a vice chairman of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference. He has also been serving since 2014 as the executive deputy director of the Offic ...

in the

central Conservatory of Music The Central Conservatory of Music (CCOM; ) is the national music academy of China, located in Beijing. It is affiliated with the Ministry of Education. The academy is part of Project 211 and the Double First-Class Construction. Overview Fo ...

. He became a professional composer of the Military Band of the People's Liberation Army of China after graduation in 1988. Over the last ten years, Wang has created more than 600

instrumental music An instrumental or instrumental song is music without any vocals, although it might include some inarticulate vocals, such as shouted backup vocals in a big band setting. Through semantic widening, a broader sense of the word song may refer t ...

and

vocal music Vocal music is a type of singing performed by one or more singers, either with instrumental accompaniment, or without instrumental accompaniment (a cappella), in which singing provides the main focus of the piece. Music which employs singing but ...

, with wide range of materials and different styles. The latter include solo, ensemble, symphony for

symphonic band A concert band, also called a wind band, wind ensemble, wind symphony, wind orchestra, symphonic band, the symphonic winds, or symphonic wind ensemble, is a performing ensemble consisting of members of the woodwind, brass, and percussion famil ...

, and symphonic chorus. He has attached great importance to national characteristic, popularity and sense of the times in his creation. Twenty pieces of his works have been awarded the prize in the country and the army. And a lot of compositions have been published and recorded on the discs and the tapes. Wang's major works are: Yuanmingyuan – a symphonic

tone poem A symphonic poem or tone poem is a piece of orchestral music, usually in a single continuous movement (music), movement, which illustrates or evokes the content of a poem, short story, novel, painting, landscape, or other (non-musical) source. T ...

for symphonic band, Beautiful Evening of Prairie, Dance under the moonlight (a trumpet solo), Yihai – a symphonic tone-poem for symphonic band, and Plum Blossom () a symphonic chorus etc. He co-created the admission music (金声玉振 jīn shēng yù zhèn) for the award ceremony of the

2008 Beijing Olympic Games The 2008 Summer Olympics (), officially the Games of the XXIX Olympiad () and officially branded as Beijing 2008 (), were an international multisport event held from 8 to 24 August 2008, in Beijing, China. A total of 10,942 athletes fr ...

with

Tan Dun Tan Dun (, ; born 18 August 1957) is a Chinese-born American composer and conductor. A leading figure of contemporary classical music, he draws from a variety of Western and Chinese influences, a pairing which has shaped much of his life and mu ...

Selected works

* Plum Blossom：咏梅 (为毛主席诗词谱曲) * Ah, bottom of the waves 啊！小浪底 * Return of the trumpet 回归号角 (instrumental) * The footsteps of youth: 青春的脚步 * The sacred fire of my heart: 心中的圣火 * Dance of the golden snake：金蛇狂舞(板胡领奏) * Ode for the national flag: 国旗颂 * Might of the Sea: 大海神威 * I love you, China: 我爱你中国 * The people and army are devoted to the Party: 人民军队忠于党 * Ode for mother: 母亲颂 * Dance steps under moonlight：月光下的舞步(小号独奏) * Eternal Jinggang Mountains: 永远的井冈

References

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