Vladimir Shushlin

Vladimir Grigorievich Shushlin (Russian: Владимир Григорьевич Шушлин; 26 July 1896 - 23 October 1978)[1] was a Russian opera singer. He is called "the founder of Chinese vocal singing" and was the first foreign singer in China to perform Chinese songs in the original language. Shushlin was known for his rich, bass singing voice and to his use of the traditional Italian opera style.[2]

Vladimir Shushlin
Born
Vladimir Grigorievich Shushlin

26 July 1896
Grodno, Russian Empire
Died23 October 1978 (1978-10-24) (aged 82)
Moscow, USSR
Other namesSu Shi Lin
OccupationOpera singer
Years active1909 - 1942

Shushlin was born in Grodno in 1896 and attended the St. Petersburg State Academic Capella in the early 1900s. Here he studied under Mikhail Klimov.[2] Shushlin took up piano and violin before settling on operatic singing. He later joined the Mariinsky Theater, where he performed with Feodor Chaliapin and sang in the opera Boris Godunov.[3] The two became good friends and continued to perform together, including in The Golden Cockerel.[2] Shushlin graduated from the Saint Petersburg Conservatory in 1920.[4] Between 1922 and 1924, he performed with the Saint Petersburg Philharmonic Orchestra. His last performance with them was of Götterdämmerung on 16 April 1924.[5]

Fleeing Russia after the Russian Revolution, Shushlin moved to Harbin in 1924.[6] Here he taught music and performed, going by the name Su Shi Lin.[2] In 1927, he left to perform a tour of Japan and the Philippines.[3] Shushlin returned to China in 1929 and moved to Shanghai.[6] At the behest of Xiao Youmei, Shushlin joined the Shanghai Conservatory of Music in September 1930. Ding Shande considered Shushlin a teacher of 'first rank'.[7]

Shushlin returned to Russia in 1956 and became a professor at the Moscow Conservatory. He died in Moscow in 1978.[2]

Further reading

References
  1. Zhaorun, Sun (July 2016). ""中国声乐的奠基人"——苏石林史料新解-人民音乐2016年07期-手机知网" ["Founder of Chinese Vocal Music" - A New Explanation of Historical Materials by Su Shilin]. People's Music. Department of Culture and Media, Zibo Vocational College. Retrieved 2020-11-22.
  2. Yanying, Song (2016). ИНТЕГРАЦИЯ ЕВРОПЕЙСКИХ ТРАДИЦИЙ ПЕНИЯ В ВОКАЛЬНУЮ ШКОЛУ КИТАЯ (Thesis) (in Russian). pp. 38–49.
  3. Melvin, Sheila; Cai, Jindong (2004). Rhapsody in Red: How Western Classical Music Became Chinese. Algora Publishing. p. 107. ISBN 978-0-87586-179-1.
  4. Na, Wu. Фортепианная музыка Дин Шаньдэ: сопряжение китайских национальных традиций с европейскими приёмами композиторского письма (in Russian). Ut. p. 38. ISBN 978-5-7443-0081-4.
  5. "Владимир Шушлин - Персоны - Санкт-Петербургская академическая филармония имени Д.Д. Шостаковича". www.philharmonia.spb.ru. Retrieved 28 March 2020.
  6. Aspden, Suzanne (2019). Operatic Geographies: The Place of Opera and the Opera House. University of Chicago Press. p. 154. ISBN 978-0-226-59615-0. Retrieved 28 March 2020.
  7. Goldstein, Jonathan (1998). The Jews of China. M.E. Sharpe. p. 240. ISBN 978-0-7656-3631-7.


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