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Father of Folk on Silk Road——Wang Luobin Wang Luobin, honored as Father of Folk, was a renowned Han Chinese songwriter who specialized in composing Mandarin-language folk songs onSilk Road in western China.

Wang Luobin was born into an ordinary family in Beijing in the winter of 1913. His father, who was a fan of the Peking Opera, led him into the road of music. Wang entered the Music Department of Beijing Normal University at 18 and began to learn western music from a Russian teacher, who encouraged Wang’s dream of going abroad for further study. Unfortunately his dream never came true, and Wang was even forced to leave school in 1934 because of financial difficulties.

It was in 1938 in Lanzhou that Wang Luobin composed his first Xinjiang-inspired song “The Dabancheng Girl”.

In 1991, his song” In A faraway Place “(a song from Qinghai Province), won the National Special Gold Disc Award for Music Writing.

In 1993 two of his songs” In A faraway place ” and “The Crescent Rises ” were chosen as the 20th century Chinese music classics.

In July 1994, UNESCO conferred on Wang Luobin the Award for Outstanding Contributions to the Exchange of Western and Eastern Cultures.

In December 1994 the local government conferred on him the title of the honorary town head of Dabancheng in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region.

In his life Wang Luobin wrote seven operas and published six songbooks. He collected, revised, and wrote altogether some 700 western-style folk songs, among which Lift Your Veil, In the Silvery Moonlight, Song of the Youth, Alamuhan (inspired by a Xinjiang Uyghur song), Awariguli (also supposedly a Uyghur song), Flowers and Youth (pinyin: Hua’er Yu Shaonian, a Hui Muslim folk song), Duldal and Maria (a Kazakh folk song), Mayla, to name a few, are the best-known ones, popular both at home and abroad.

His songs continue to be popular today and now considered classic in the Chinese musical world. His most famous tune The Crescent Rises was taught at the Paris Conservatory, which, in an ironic twist, partially realized his old dream of traveling to Europe. Chinastory (talk) 03:06, 8 April 2008 (UTC)

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