二泉映月
China / Chinese instrumental music
The Moon Reflected on Second Spring
The defining piece of the erhu repertoire, by Abing, the blind street musician of Wuxi, who played it from memory for ethnomusicologists in 1950, months before his death. The 'second spring' is the spring on Huishan above Wuxi. Played here by Zhang Peijian.
- Performer
- Zhang Peijian (張沛堅)
- Composer
- Abing (阿炳, Hua Yanjun 華彥鈞)
- Instrument
- Èrhú 二胡
- Length
- 4:28
- Licence
- CC BY-SA · Zhang Peijian (張沛堅), recorded by David290, via Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0
- Source
- Wikimedia Commons
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