Ma Sytsun

In 1925-1931 he studied at the Nancy Conservatory and at the Paris Conservatory ; Among his teachers was Paul Oberderfer , a significant influence on Ma was also exerted by Janko Binenbaum . In 1929 he became a professor at the Institute of Fine Arts at the Central University of Nanjing. In 1938, he founded the South China Conservatory in Hong Kong (Hong Kong). After 1949, he directed orchestras and conservatories in a number of large cities in China: Shanghai, Taipei, Tianjin, Nanjing, Beijing. The musician headed the Central Beijing Conservatory, became vice president of the Association of Chinese Musicians and editor of the magazine "Musical Creativity". In 1949, he was elected a board member of the All-China Association of Literature and Art. In 1953 he became deputy chairman of the Union of Chinese Musicians. Member of the National People's Congress. He performed as a violinist in China and abroad. In the 1960s, during the “cultural revolution”, he was persecuted. His music stopped playing. Dismissed and suspended from business, he fled to Hong Kong with his wife, and from there moved to the United States. In 2007, the ashes of the composer and his wife were transferred to China.

• madrigal (1944)
• symphonic poem "Yellow Stork"
• symphonic suite “Song about forests and mountains”
• concert for violin and orchestra
• capriccio
• Tibetan Suite for violin and piano
• cantata "Homeland"
• Democratic Cantata
• symphonic poem "Sorrow for the house"
• symphonic poem "Dance of the Northern Front"
• piano quintet
• "Lullaby"
• "Nostalgia"

• Musical Encyclopedic Dictionary / Ch. ed. G.V. Keldysh. - M .: Soviet Encyclopedia, 1991. - S. 330 - ISBN 5-85270-033-9

• Ma Sytsun on the AllMusic website