刘天华,一八九五年二月四日出生于江苏江阴一个贫寒的知识分子家庭,辛亥革命前后,开始研习西洋管弦乐器和钢琴,并立下了以音乐为职业的志向。一九一五年至一九二○年间,为了学习音乐常奔波于常州和南京之间,先后从民族器乐演奏家周少梅、沈肇洲先生学习二胡、琵琶。同时深入民间,广泛地向民间艺人、和尚、道士虚心 Liu Tianhua was born on February 4, 1895 in Jiangyin, Jiangsu Province, a poor family of intellectuals. Before and after the 1911 Revolution, he began to study Western orchestral instruments and pianos and laid down his career as a music career. From 1915 to 1920, in order to learn music, he frequently traveled between Changzhou and Nanjing. He studied erhu and pipa from ethnic performer Zhou Shaomei and Shen Shizhuo successively. At the same time in-depth civil, widely to folk artists, monks, Taoist modest