LI DELUN

Interestingly Western classical music had a philosophical and ideological place in Chinese Communist doctrine. Cho Enlai—the first Chinese Communist Prime Minister was a great philosophical, cultural, and political supporter of Li Delun’s program to spread Western classical music across China. His program and the rigorous training of Chinese musicians in Western classical music and instruments even survived the Cultural Revolution when everything else from the West was attacked. By the 21st century, the best classical musicians in Europe, Canada and the United States included Chinese musicians in almost every instrument and Western musical era.

Interestingly Western classical music had a philosophical and ideological place in Chinese Communist doctrine. Cho Enlai—the first Chinese Communist Prime Minister was a great philosophical, cultural, and political supporter of Li Delun’s program to spread Western classical music across China. His program and the rigorous training of Chinese musicians in Western classical music and instruments even survived the Cultural Revolution when everything else from the West was attacked. By the 21st century, the best classical musicians in Europe, Canada and the United States included Chinese musicians in almost every instrument and Western musical era.