1934年,在上海出版的第三期《音乐杂志》上刊登了一条“征求有中国风味之钢琴曲启事”,征稿发起人为当时旅行中国的俄国著名作曲家兼钢琴家齐尔品。不久,评比揭晓,获首奖的作品就是当时在上海国立音专求学的贺绿汀的《牧童之笛》(后改为《牧童短笛》)。这首钢琴作品旋律优美流畅,织体简炼明澈,带着作者童年欢娱质朴的生活情趣和江南乡间清丽秀美的格调,至今为一般音乐爱好者所喜爱。不无巧合的是,与《牧童之笛》同时,一首名为《牧童之乐》的钢琴曲荣获了二等奖。它出自当时一位北方音乐家之手,这位音乐家就是现任北京市政协常委、中国音乐学院前副院长,如今已七十四岁高龄的老志 In 1934, the third issue of “Music Magazine” published in Shanghai published a solo song entitled “Requisitioning of Piano with Chinese Flavor”. The solicitation was sponsored by Zilpin, a famous Russian composer and pianist who was traveling China at that time. Soon, the appraisal was announced, winning the first prize is the work of Shanghai National Academy of music He Luting’s “shepherd’s flute” (later renamed “shepherd boycott”). This piece of piano works beautiful and smooth melody, simple and clear texture of the fabric, with the author’s childhood joyful fun and lively and elegant southern style of the beautiful countryside, is still loved by the average music lover. Coincidentally, along with Capriccio’s Flute, a piano prize entitled “Music for the Breeches” won the second prize. It came from the hands of a northern musician at that time, the musician is currently standing member of the Beijing Municipal CPPCC, former vice president of the Chinese Conservatory of Music, now aged 47-year-old