The Study Of Xian Xinghai’s Music Thoughts During The Anti-japanese War

Xian Xinghai is an excellent socialist and realistic musician, whose whole life creates for the nation and cries for the Chinese people. He is not only a composer but also a music activist and educator. He aspired to spread music in China when he was a kid. In 1929, he worked his way through Paris Music College. After study, he returned to China and then joined the left-wing music movement in Shanghai, Nanjing, Wuhan and other places in order to inspire people by music. In winter of 1938, he studied music education in Yanan Lu Xun College of Art, where he compiled many music teaching materials and brought up many music talents. In Yanan, he created a large number of popular, national, artistic art works, the Yellow River Cantata as the representative, by his in-depth connection with masses and study Marxism-Leninism. These also contributed to the formation of his musical thought.The reason of Xian Xinghai’s musical thought include the influence of 20 th musical education thought, his pursuit of spreading music in China and the influence of Communist Party of Chinese new democratic literature thought. His musical thought’s formation benefited from his creation of Anti-Japanese songs, benefited from his joining in the Left-wing music movement, benefited from his teaching youth and cadres to compose and benefited from his teaching sing in singing team after his return from Paris. The main content of his musical thought is that music must serve the Anti-Japanese War. During the study of Yanan Lu Xun College of Art, his musical thought and practice reached the peak of his life and realized his dream, which is to roar for the left-wing war and voice for the masses. So this period in his musical life is is the glorious period. The main contents of his thought include: First, he promotes the popular, national and artistic music; Second, he uses the right way to deal with the relationship between the music and politics; Third, he creates and spread the Anti-Japanese war music and so on. His musical thought’s maturity embodies in his writings, diaries and works during his study in Yanan Lu Xun College of Art. In Soviet times, Xian Xinghai’s musical thought continued to develop. At the same time, he promotes the international music culture exchange and spreads Chinese culture to the international friends.As a people musician, his musical thought and practice not only encourages the people to join the Anti-Japanese War, but also has an important role in the development of Chinese modern music, the exploration of music education and the culture exchange between China and other countries.