Ebook {Epub PDF} Beethoven in China how the great composer became an icon in China by Jindong Cai

Beethoven in China: How the Great Composer Became an Icon in the People's Republic (Penguin Specials) Paperback – by Jindong Cai (Author), Sheila Melvin (Author) /5(3).  · So the first time that Beethoven was played by and for Chinese was thanks to Xiao Youmei. He was a follower of Sun Yat-sen and later got a Ph.D in music at Leipzig University in Germany. He returned to China in about and the great educator Cai Yuanpei asked him to start an orchestra at Peking www.doorway.ruted Reading Time: 6 mins. As he recounts in his recently published book, Beethoven in China: How the Great Composer Became an Icon in the People’s Republic, Beethoven became a hero to reformers, intellectuals, music lovers, and party cadres alike.

Beethoven in China: How the Great Composer Became an Icon in the People's Republic: Penguin Specials: How the Great Composer Became an Icon in the People's Republic: Penguin Specials Jindong Cai At the turn of the twentieth century, students returning from abroad introduced Beethoven to China. Sheila Melvin is the co-author, with her husband, the conductor Jindong Cai, of Rhapsody in Red: How Western Classical Music Became Chinese, which was short-listed for the Saroyan Prize in ; Beethoven in China: How the Great Composer Became an Icon in the People's Republic (Penguin, ), which was featured on NPR's "All Things. Jindong Cai is an orchestra conductor and a professor at Stanford University. He is a three-time recipient of the American Society of Composers, Authors, and Publishers award for Adventurous Programming of Contemporary Music. Sheila Melvin has been writing about China for over 20 years.

As he recounts in his recently published book, Beethoven in China: How the Great Composer Became an Icon in the People’s Republic, Beethoven became a hero to reformers, intellectuals, music lovers, and party cadres alike. So the first time that Beethoven was played by and for Chinese was thanks to Xiao Youmei. He was a follower of Sun Yat-sen and later got a Ph.D in music at Leipzig University in Germany. He returned to China in about and the great educator Cai Yuanpei asked him to start an orchestra at Peking University. Beethoven remained a durable part of Chinese life in the decades that followed, becoming an icon to intellectuals, music fans and party cadres alike, playing a role in major historical events from the May Fourth Movement to the normalisation of US-China relations. Jindong Cai, whose love for the musician began during the Cultural Revolution, and culture journalist Sheila Melvin tell the compelling story of Beethoven and the Chinese people.