On this day 58 years ago, on January 31, 1967 (December 21, 1966 lunar calendar), Chinese female pianist Gu Shengying passed away. Pianist Gu Shengying Gu Shengying (1937-1967), female. Pianist. A native of Wuxi, Jiangsu. Born in Shanghai on July 2, 1937. She was talented in music since she was a child. She learned the piano at the age of 3 and entered the piano department attached to the Chinese and Western Girls' High School at the age of 5. At the age of 9, she was tutored by Yin Zhenai, director of the piano department of the Chinese and Western Primary School, and her skills were greatly improved. In addition to learning the piano, she liked calligraphy and painting, and read famous works of Chinese and foreign literature, thus enriching the art of piano performance. In 1949, she studied in the second year of the Chinese and Western Girls' High School (later the third girls' middle school in Shanghai), and learned piano from Professor Yang Ji In May 1953, she was taught by the famous pianist Professor Li Jialu, who mastered the performance skills of various European genres and styles, and studied music theory and music history from Professors Ma Rongshun and Shen Zhibai. In the same year, she collaborated with the Shanghai Symphony Orchestra and performed Mozart's Piano Concerto in D minor for the first time, which won a high reputation. In 1954, she graduated from a female high school and was admitted to the Shanghai Symphony Orchestra as a soloist. She held her first solo concert in Shanghai on February 26, 1955, which was a great success. In 1956, she entered the Tianjin Central Conservatory of Music for further study, and then went to Moscow to study. In the mid-1950s, her father and patriotic general Gu Gaotai was implicated in the "Pan Hannian injustice" and was sentenced to life imprisonment. Gu Shengying was still in adversity and went to Moscow in 1957 to participate in the piano competition of the 6th World Youth Festival and In October 1958, she participated in the 14th International Music Competition in Geneva and won the highest prize in the Women's Piano Competition, which made her famous in the world music scene. In March 1960, she participated in the 6th Chopin Piano Competition in Warsaw and received high praise. In the same year, she received an honorary graduation certificate from the Central Conservatory of Music. After many consecutive years, she was named as the outstanding youth of Shanghai, the bearer of the March 8th Red Banner, and the outstanding member of the Cultural Affairs Bureau. In April 1964, she participated in the Belgian International Piano Competition and won the grand prize again. Later, she represented China to perform in the Netherlands and Finland. She suffered cruel persecution during the "Cultural Revolution" and passed away unjustly on January 31, 1967, at the age of 30. In January 1979, In September 1962, Gu Shengying played at the Southern Theater in Guangzhou. Gu Shengying improvised at the farewell reception in Macau. Gu Shengying won the top prize in the piano competition at the 14th Geneva International Music Competition in 1958. The Empress Dowager Elizabeth received the winners (the second from the right is Gu Shengying) Gu Shengying and Li Mingqiang took a photo with Kravchenko before going to Poland to participate in the Chopin Competition (February 14, 1960) Gu Shengying talked with the Jewish pianist Xia Liao at the hilltop villa of Xinhua News Agency in Hong Kong. Gu Shengying took a photo with pianists Yin Chengzong and Li Mingqiang in front of Li's house (summer 1960)