Lin Youren

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Lin Youren
Simplified:	林友仁
Traditional:	林友仁
Hanyu Pinyin:	Lin Youren
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Lin Youren (林友仁) is a noted player of the Chinese musical instrument guqin. He famous for his unaffected playing style. Lin also taught guqin at the Shanghai Conservatory of Music, but has since retired.

Lin was born in 1938 in Shanghai, China, but was brought up in nearby Nanjing. Early on in his musical development, Lin studied with Liu Shaochun (1901-71). He enterd the Shanghai Conservatory of Music in 1958 to study the guqin. He was influenced by the playing styles of Liu Jingshao, Gu Meigeng, Shen Caonong, and Wei Zhongle in particular. He graduated in 1963 and stayed at the Conservatory and began research on guqin history and Chinese music.

Lin has given guqin recitals in Taiwan, Hong Kong, Japan, France and the USA.

[edit] Partial discography

• Appreciation of Tang Poetry Quatrains 1995
• Music For The Qin Zither 2000 (recorded in the UK)

[edit] References

• UCLA ethnomusic course

[edit] External links

• BBC - Changing China leaves guqin behind
• North American Guqin Association
• Medieval.org

Guqin 古琴

Contemporary guqin players | Guqin literature | Guqin notation | Qinpu | Qin schools | Qin societies | Yaji

Melodies

Ao Ai | Guangling San | Hujia Shiba-pai | Jieshi Diao Youlan | Liu Shui | Meihua Sannong | Pingsha Luoyan | Xiao Xiang Shuiyun | Yangguan Sandie

Schools

Guangling | Jiuyi | Lingnan | Mei'an | Pucheng | Shu | Yushan | Zhe | Zhucheng

Societies

London Youlan Qin Society | New York Qin Society | North American Guqin Association

Historical personages

Bo Ya | Guo Chuwang | Song Huizong | Xi Kang | Zhu Quan

Players

Cheng Yu | Gong Yi | Guan Pinghu | Li Xiangting | Lin Youren | Wang Fei | Wu Jinglüe | Wu Zhaoji | Zeng Chengwei | Zha Fuxi | Zhang Ziqian