Chamber Instrumental Ensemble with Piano in the Work of Chinese Composers in the 1930–1970s: an Analytical Survey

Abstract

Chinese composers have been creating works for chamber instrumental ensemble involving piano since the early 1930s. To date, they have already formed a layer of national music, its depth and richness being hardly realised not only in the West, but even in the PRC. Despite the existence of a number of studies discussing individual works, no analysis has considered the entire course of the genre’s development so far. The paper traces the history of chamber instrumental ensemble with piano in the work of Chinese composers from the origins to the period of “Reforms and Openness”.