Based onthe popular poemChanghen Ge(Song of Everlasting Sorrow)by Bai Juyi in 807, Huang Zi composed China's first cantata of the same name.
Huang Zi, a composer of overflowing brilliance, graduated from the Music Conservatory of Yale University and became a faculty member of Shanghai State Music College in 1930. While teaching, he composed a number of songs, withChanghen Gebeing one of his masterpieces.Changhen Geincludes 10 movements, describing thetragic love story of the Tang Ming Emperor and his imperial concubine Yang Yuhuan.
The work left a precious treasure to the later generations in terms of artistic penetration and composing ploy. It is the first cantata in China.
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