黃海懷，一九三五年出生於江西萍鄉，一九六七年二月不幸英年早逝，病故於武漢。酷愛音樂戲劇，十七歲時曾任業餘劇團副團長，二胡演奏出色。一九五五年，考入中南音樂專科學校即今之武漢音樂學院前身，師從周華林專修二胡，一九五八年，畢業留校任教。一九五九年，黃氏創作著名二胡曲《騫馬》，創用大段撥弦手法。一九六二年三月，在廣州首屆「羊城花會」上，聽到旅大歌舞團雙管演奏家谷新善演奏《江河水》，即將之移植為二胡演奏而廣為流傳。一九六三年五月，參加第四屆「上海之春」全國首屆二胡比賽獲第三名及新作品演奏優秀獎。
HUANG Hai-huai
HUANG Hai-huai was born in 1935 in Ping district, Jiangxi province and passed away of illness in February 1967 in Wuhan, Hubei province. He loved music and drama very much in childhood. When he was seventeen, he was the associated director of an amateur drama group. In 1955, he was admitted to the music training school, which was renamed to Wuhan Conservatory later, learning the erhu under ZHOU Hua-lin. In 1958, he graduated from the conservatory and was appointed to teach in the conservatory. In 1959, he composed the famous erhu piece Horse Racing. In 1962, after attending the concert of the 1st Guangzhou Music Festival, he was affected by GU Xin-shan’s Shuangguan solo of the River Water. He then transcribed it to an erhu solo piece. In 1963, he was selected to participate in the 4th Shanghai Spring Festival’s national erhu competition and won the third prize and the outstanding new work performance prize.