Nie Er 聂 耳

民族：汉
Nationality: Han nationality
出生地：云南省昆明
Birth Place: Kunming, Yunnan Province
生卒年：1912-1935
Birth and mortality: 1912-1935
相关作品：《义勇军进行曲》《毕业歌》《梅娘曲》
Works: the March of the Volunteers, Graduation Song, Song of Mei Niang
简介：
Introduction:
聂耳原名聂守信，字子义（亦作紫艺），中国著名作曲家，开辟了中国新音乐的道路，是中国无产阶级革命音乐先驱，又是中华人民共和国国歌《义勇军进行曲》的作曲者。
Nie Er (born Nie Shouxin, Courtesy name Ziyi), was a Chinese composer. He is known for composing the national anthem of the People’s Republic of China, the March of the Volunteers.And he opened up a road of China’s new music, he is a music pioneer of Chinese proletarian revolution.
 
聂守信从小喜爱音乐，1918年就读于昆明师范附属小学。利用课余时间，他自学了笛子、二胡、三弦和月琴等乐器，并开始担任学校“儿童乐队”的指挥。1922年，聂耳进入私立求实小学高级部，1925年考取云南省立第一联合中学插班生。时值第一次国内革命风暴在中国南方兴起，他开始受到进步书刊和《国际歌》等革命歌曲的影响。
Nie Shouxin was fond of music since his childhood. From 1918 he studied at the Kunming Normal School’s Associated Primary School. In his spare time, he learned to play traditional instruments such as the dizi, erhu, sanxian, and yueqin, and became the conductor of the school’s Children’s Orchestra. In 1922 he entered the Private Qiushi Primary School (Senior Section), and in 1925 entered Yunnan Provincial Number One Combined Middle School. At that time, the first domestic revolution  appeared in Southern China, he was influenced by progressive books and the Internationale.
1927年入云南第一师范学习，在校期间参与了学生组织“读书会”的活动，并与友人组织“九九音乐社”，经常参加校内外的演出活动。并开始学习小提琴。1931年入黎锦晖主持的明月歌舞剧社任小提琴手，1932年7月发表《中国歌舞短论》，并因批评黎氏被迫离团。1932年11月进入联华影业公司工作，参加“苏联之友社”音乐小组，并组织“中国新兴音乐研究会”，参加左翼戏剧家联盟音乐组（苏联之友社）。这时期他还自修了和声学、作曲法等作曲理论。 1933年开始为左翼电影、戏剧作曲，1933年由田汉介绍加入中国共产党，1934年4月加入百代唱片公司（中国唱片厂前身）主持音乐部工作，同时建立百代国乐队（又名“森森国乐队”）。这也是他最多产的一年。1935年初，聂耳创作了著名的《义勇军进行曲》。
In 1927 Nie Er entered Yunnan Provincial Number One Normal School. At school, he participated in the Book Club, and organized the “Nine-Nine Music Society”, which performed within the school and outside. During this time, he learned to play the violin.In June 1931, Nie Er entered the “Mingyue Musical Drama Society” hosted by Li Jinhui as a violinist. In July 1932 he published A Short Treatise on Chinese Song and Dance, in which he criticised the Drama Society’s president, Li Jinhui, as a result of which he was forced to leave the society. After joining the Lianhua Film Studio on November 1932, he joined the musical group of the “Friends of the Soviet unio Society”. He also organized the “Chinese Contemporary Music Research Group”, which participated in the Leftist Dramatist’s unio. During this period, he self learned harmonics, composition art and other composition theories. And then he composed for Leftist films and dramas.In 1933, introduced by Tian Han, Nie Er joined the Communist Party of China.In April 1934, he joined the Baak Doi Record Company and managed the musical section. In the same year he founded the Pathé National Orchestra. This was a prolific year for Nie Er in terms of musical output. In early 1935, he composed the March of the Volunteers.
1935年1月聂耳担任联华二厂的音乐部主任。1935年7月17日，年仅23岁的聂耳在日本藤泽市游泳时不幸溺水身亡。
In January 1935 Nie Er became the director of the musical department of Lianhua Number Two Studio. Later this year, On July 17, he drowned while swimming in Fujisawa, Japan, at the age of 23.