About the Book
Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 24. Chapters: Gong Li, Lang Lang, Zheng Zhi, Li Tie, Sun Yingjie, Li Jinyu, Zhuang Xiaoyan, Ma Lin, Ai Jing, Zhang Yuning, Zhao Junzhe, Bagatur, Li Yi'nan, Jin Xing, Zimei, Wang Xiao, Li Chunyu, Na Ying, Xiao Zhanbo, Zang Shiyi, Qiu Li, Wang Xinxin, Du Zhenyu, Jiang Bo, Cao Tianbao, Wang Liang, Zhang Yuehong, Jing Boran, Guan Xueting, Xu Yang, Wang Meng, Zhang Ye, Zhang Xiaofei, Wang Bo, Jiang Pengxiang, Gao Jian, Chang Hsin-kang, Gao E, Chen Sicheng, Fan Wei, Wang Tong, Guo Songling, Sui Jianshuang, Gao Kang, Li Zhesi, Qin Dongya, Zhou Tienong, Song Weilong, Wang Jiao, Qu Feifei, Shi Dan, Zhang Hanlan, Yuan Zhi, Liu Dan, Wang Yang, Yang Yuting. Excerpt: Lang Lang (Chinese: pinyin: Lang L ng), born June 14, 1982, in Shenyang, Liaoning, China, is a Chinese concert pianist, currently residing in New York. He is well known around the world for his concert appearances. Lang Lang was born in Shenyang, China, and is of Manchu ethnicity. Lang Lang's father Lang Guoren ( ) is also a famous musician who specializes in the Chinese instrument erhu. At the age of two, Lang Lang watched the Tom and Jerry episode The Cat Concerto which features the Hungarian Rhapsody No. 2 by Franz Liszt. According to Lang Lang, this first contact with Western music is what motivated him to learn piano. He began lessons with Professor Zhu Ya-Fen at age three. At the age of five, he won first place at the Shenyang Piano Competition and performed his first public recital. When Lang Lang was nine years old, he was near his audition for Beijing's Central Conservatory of Music, and, having difficulties with his lessons, was expelled from his piano tutor's studio for lack of talent. His music teacher at his state school noticed Lang Lang's sadness, and decided to comfort him by playing a record of Mozart's Piano Sonata No. 10 in C Major, K. 330; she asked him to...
