Li Lanqing on Music: A Conversation

Author: Li Lanqing
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Publish Date: 2004-09-01
Features: This is a popular music book, as well as a symphonic poem about music and life, music and work, and music and education. The entire book resembles a singing adagio, with an approachable and simple narrative style, using easy-to-understand language. Through the presentation of the inner journeys of 50 classic music masters, it showcases over three hundred years of European classical music history. What is particularly valuable is that Comrade Li Lanqing, from the perspective of a non-professional music worker, has condensed his passion and understanding of European classical music, as well as the help music provides for work and the insights it offers for life, into words. This opens up a fresh perspective for readers: music possesses the power to strike the soul, making life more interesting, thoughts more creative, work more efficient, leadership more artistic, and life richer. The book also recommends representative works of these 50 music masters to readers, briefly explains some music-related concepts and terms, and includes a music appreciation DVD. Music is an important part of cultural refinement. The author dedicates this book to all current and future intellectuals, as well as all music lovers, hoping it can serve as a bridge to music, allowing more people to enter the world of music through it, understand music, enhance their cultural refinement, improve the overall quality of the Chinese nation, and promote the better global reach of Chinese art.