Composer | Ma Shui-long
Did You Know That ... ?
- When Ma Shui-long was five years old, his family moved to Jiufen (九份), a mountainous area in northern Taiwan, to hide from the air strikes during the latter years of World War II. Ma's childhood memories at the mountain village became his inspiration for music.
- During his stay in Germany, an occasional conversation about classical music with two Germans in a concert gave him conviction in developing and promoting the unique sound of Formosa - namely the folk music of Taiwan.
- For his deft combination of Eastern and Western classic music, Ma was praised for "letting his instruments speak in a European voice but with an Asian mind” by The New York Times.
Read more about the esteemed composer here or scroll down for pictures.
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Handwritten manuscript of "I Am."
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A young Ma Shui-long practices the cello outside his childhood home.
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Ma with his wife, pianist Hsu Tzu-chen.
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Ma with his classmates at the University of Regensburg in Germany.
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Ma with his professors at the University of Regensburg in Germany.
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Ma and Cloud Gate patriarch Lin Hwai-min.
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Ma is inaugurated as president of the Taipei National University of the Arts.
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Ma is pictured outside the Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts in New York after his recital and U.S. debut.
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Ma during a 1997 trip to eastern Taiwan.
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A picture of Ma on the balcony of his home at Taipei's Dazhi District in 1998.
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An undated photo of Ma composing after his retirement.
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Ma is awarded the Second Rank of the R.O.C. Order of Brilliant Star by President Lee Teng-hui in May 2000.
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