冼星海誕辰106週年紀念：追憶大師生平

Xian Xinghai (June 13, 1905 – October 30, 1945) was one of the earliest generation of Chinese composers influenced by western classical music and has influenced generations of Chinese musicians.
冼星海是中國早期受西方古典音樂薰陶的作曲家之一，他的作品影響了中國幾代的音樂人。

In 1926 he joined the National Music Institute at Peking University to study music and in 1928 he entered Shanghai National Music Conservatory to study violin and piano. The same year he published his well-known essay The Universal Music.
1926年冼星海就讀於北京大學音樂傳習所，1928年進入上海音樂專科音樂學校，學習小提琴、鋼琴。這一年他發表了論文《普遍的音樂》。

In 1929 he went to Paris under government sponsorship and in 1934 he was the first Chinese student admitted to the Paris Conservatory to study senior composition. During this period he composed Wind, Song of a Wanderer, Violin Sonata in D Minor, and other works.
1929年冼星海赴巴黎留學，1934年考入巴黎國立音樂學院肖拉•康託魯姆作曲班，這期間他創作了《風》、《遊子吟》《d小調小提琴奏鳴曲》等作品。

During the Sino-Japanese War (1937-1945), he wrote vocal works that encouraged the people to fight the Japanese invaders, including Saving the Nation, Non-Resistance the Only Fear, Song of Guerrillas, The Roads Are Opened by Us, The Vast Siberia, Children of the Motherland, Go to the Homefront of the Enemy, and On the Taihang Mountains, among others.
抗日戰爭期間，冼星海創作了大量聲樂作品，包括《救國軍歌》、《只怕不抵抗》、《遊擊軍歌》、《路是我們開》、《茫茫的西伯利亞》、《祖國的孩子們》、《到敵人後方去》、《在太行山上》。

He became dean of the Music DepArtment at Lu Xun Institute of Arts in 1938. It is at this time that he composed the famous Yellow River Cantata and the Production Cantata.
1938年冼星海出任延安魯迅文學藝術學院音樂系主任，這期間他創作了著名的《黃河大合唱》，同時寫有《生產大合唱》等其他作品。