19 12 In February, Nie Er was born in a doctor's family in Kunming, Yunnan. He is the sixth child in this family. My father Nie Hongyi is a Chinese doctor. He opened a "Cheng Chuntang" pharmacy in Kunming, and while treating people, he gave them medicine to barely maintain the life of the whole family. When Nie Er was four years old, his father died from overwork. Since then, the family has lost its dependence and life has become more difficult. In desperation, my mother provoked the burden of life. This woman, who comes from a family in A Dai, is knowledgeable. She has read books such as Hundred Family Names and Saint Amethyst, and also learned a little about Chinese medicine theory and medical skills from her husband. After her husband died, she inherited his business and began to take care of the livelihood of the whole family.
Because of her poor family, the mother pinned more hopes on her youngest son Nie Er. Since childhood, my mother has taught Nie Er to read and tell him stories. Under her education, five-year-old Nie Er can consciously insist on reading and practicing calligraphy. Mother often sang him some beautiful lanterns and dulcimer tunes, and planted the seeds of folk music art in his young mind.
At the age of six, Nie Er entered a primary school attached to a normal school. Thanks to his mother's good education and his hard work, his grades have always been among the best and he is very popular with teachers. However, the poverty at home forced him to transfer to another primary school-private Qiushi Primary School in the fifth grade. Although the conditions of Qiushi Primary School are not as good as those of the attached primary school, he attaches great importance to music education. It was in this school that Nie Er showed great interest in music and literature. He studied all kinds of musical instruments with the music teacher and actively participated in all kinds of literary activities organized by the school. He also joined a band organized by senior students and was chosen as the conductor of the band because of his outstanding musical talent.
1In the spring of 925, Nie Er graduated from Qiushi Primary School with excellent results and was admitted to the First United Middle School in Yunnan Province. At that time, the first revolutionary civil war reached its climax, mass movements against imperialism and warlord rule surged, and newspapers and periodicals spreading various progressive ideas spread all over the country. The development of the revolutionary situation greatly touched the young Nie Er's thoughts. He began to eagerly read all kinds of progressive books and periodicals, began to pay attention to society and life, and his thoughts began to mature.
In his middle school days, his musical hobbies and talents have been better developed. At that time, the school constantly organized various instrumental ensembles, and he always took an active part in them, striving to improve his playing level. At school, he was also exposed to western music. At that time, there was a foreign professor named Bai in the school. He set up the English Association to teach young students English. Nie Er actively participated in community activities and established a deep teacher-student relationship with Bai Jian. He learned about western music from Bo Wen Xi and gradually became interested in some western musical instruments such as piano and violin. His knowledge of western music further enriched his musical knowledge and laid a solid foundation for his later creation.
/kloc-Nie Er, 0/5 years old, graduated from junior high school and was admitted to the "foreign language group" of senior middle school of Yunnan No.1 Normal School at public expense to learn English. Nie Er is very clever. He learned English at the beginning, and it is not difficult to learn it. Sometimes he often performs dialogues.
During his study in the provincial normal school, Nie Er not only studied hard, but also demanded ideological progress. At the low tide of the Great Revolution, when Chiang Kai-shek rebelled against the revolution and the whole country was in a state of white terror, Nie Er secretly joined the Communist Youth League of China and engaged in revolutionary activities such as lettering and posting leaflets. He signed up for the "student army" behind his family's back and several classmates, thinking that it was a good opportunity to participate in the actual revolutionary struggle, and was sent to Chenzhou, Hunan Province to be incorporated into the "new recruits" for training. There, he experienced darkness and decay in the old army: he was often insulted and punished by officers for no reason; Often do not have enough to eat. Later, with the support of fellow villagers, he returned to Kunming after many twists and turns and continued to study in the first division of the province. Later, Nie Er was forced to leave school because of the situation and took a sea boat from Hong Kong to Shanghai.
After arriving in Shanghai, Nie Er not only worked hard to make a living, but also seized all the time to learn English and Japanese. And teach yourself the violin according to professional standards. Four months later, he was introduced to join the anti-imperialist grand alliance, a progressive mass organization under the leadership of * * *. He works hard to make money and study hard; While actively participating in the revolutionary torrent.
At this time, he became more and more familiar with and adapted to Shanghai, met some people engaged in film work, gradually increased his money, bought more books and a violin, and studied music art hard. But the good times didn't last long. Soon he lost his job and his life was in trouble again.
One day, Nie Er saw a notice in Shen Bao that "Lianhua Film Company Music and Dance School" wanted to recruit actors and trainees. Nie Er immediately signed up and was accepted. This not only solved the problem of life, but also made him step into his favorite music career. Nie er was nineteen years old at this time.
Although Nie Er has a good talent in music art, after all, he has not entered a professional school and received formal education and training, so his level in music theory and skills is not enough. To this end, he seized all the time to practice the violin hard. First I asked Wang Renyi, the chief violinist, and then I studied with Dushka, an Austrian. In addition, he also taught himself harmony and composition, and began to try music creation, successively writing Elegy for violin, March for piano and Waltz. He also joined the Yue Ming Club and participated in practice, performances and movies like other young actors.
When the September 18th Incident broke out, Japanese imperialism invaded the three northeastern provinces on a large scale, which gave Nie a great shock. So he published "China's Song and Dance" in the film publication "The Art of Film", directly targeting Li Jinhui's wrong tendency of "singing and dancing for the sake of singing and dancing". The article is profound in content and sharp in writing style, which has become his masterpiece with Yue Ming society. In this way, Nie Er left Yue Ming society and joined Lianhua Film Company. From then on, Nie Er entered the film circle. After work, Nie Er joined the music group established by Shanghai Dramatists Association, organized revolutionary musicians to participate in the progressive film and television drama movement at that time, and studied the creation of mass songs.
At the beginning of 1933, Nie Er was introduced by Tian Han and sworn by Xia Yan, the head of the left-wing alliance, and gloriously joined China. From then on, under the guidance of the Party's direct education, Nie Er devoted himself more actively to the revolutionary music creation of the proletariat and the masses with full revolutionary passion. After hard work, he made outstanding contributions and became a pioneer of proletarian music and a people's musician in China.
Although Nie Er has never studied music systematically in the Conservatory of Music and has only been engaged in music creation for about two years, he has created a number of music works that are deeply loved by people in these short two years. In the history of China music, Nie Er combined revolutionary realism with romanticism for the first time, and created a large number of works with the flavor of the times and national style, paving the way for the development of revolutionary music in China. His March of the Volunteers has been designated as National Anthem of the People's Republic of China, and there are other works such as Graduation Song, Forward Song, Lu Ge, Newspaper Song, Opera Storm of the Yangtze River, National Instrumental Music, Spring Dawn in the Green Lake, and Golden Snake Dance. , are all temporary classics.