王乙，一九一九年十二月二十七日出生於江蘇省吳縣滸墅關鎮一小商人家庭，二○○二年病逝於上海，享年八十三歲。其父王啟明甚好絲竹，家中絲竹樂器一應俱全，王氏自小即耳濡目染，沉浸於絲竹聲中，並把玩各式樂器，習奏二胡、琵琶、笛、簫等。一九四六年九月至一九五六年七月，王氏在上海敬業中學任教達十年之久，並在民立女中兼課年餘。其間，除作有以家鄉滸墅關廟會的《說音歌》為素材之《田野小曲》外，一九五三年，又以家鄉滸墅關的「挑泥號子」為素材作成二胡曲《豐收》、據昆曲《玉簪記‧琴挑》改編成《朝元歌》。王氏所教學生甚多，包括著名的二胡演奏家閔惠芬、馬曉暉、李肇芳、周維及在上海音樂學院任教的吳之珉、王莉莉等。並以自己的座右銘不時告誡學生：「清清爽爽做人，認認真真學習，不受任何干擾」。
WANG Yi
WANG Yi was born on December 27, 1919 in Wu district, Jiangsu province and passed away of illness in 2002 in Shanghai. His father WANG Qi-ming was a traditional music lover and could play most of the instruments that gave WANG Yi a good chance to approach the traditional music. In between September 1946 to July 1956, he taught in the Professional School of Shanghai and composed his maiden erhu piece The Field Song. In 1953, he composed according to the folk music of his hometown a new erhu piece Good Harvest and based on Kunqu wrote the Chao Yuan Ge. He always teaches the fellow students to learn the music in a no disturbance circumstance. His students include MIN Hui-fen, MA Xiao-hui, LI Zhao-fang, ZHOU Wei, WU Zhi-min, WANG Li-li, etc.