Aaron Avshalomov
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Aaron Avshalomov was a Russian-born Jewish composer. His work included several ballets, two operas, a violin concerto, four symphonies and a flute concerto.
Aaron Avshalomov
March of the Volunteers
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The "March of the Volunteers" is the national anthem of the People's Republic of China. Unlike previous Chinese state anthems, it was written entirely in vernacular Chinese, rather than in Classical C
Aaron Avshalomov
…was the opera Kuan Yin, which premiered in Peking in 1925. In the spring of 1935, at the invitation of He Luting, he orchestrated the newly composed March of the Volunteers by Nie Er for the film Children of Troubled Times (1935), making him the first to orchestrate what would become the national anthem of the People's…
Nie Er (left) and Tian Han (right), photographed in Shanghai in 1933
The poster for Children of Troubled Times (1935), which used the march as its theme song
The song's first appearance in print, the May or June 1935 Diantong Pictorial