李廷松:
琵琶演奏家李廷松，一九零六年二月十日出生于上海，祖籍江苏苏州，一九七六年八月十一日病逝于北京。李氏高中毕业后，在洋行任「跑街」；一九三零年后，在其父开办之搪瓷厂任职经理。少时喜爱丝竹之乐，十五岁开始学习琵琶，由詹启宏启蒙，其后从游于施颂伯、吴梦飞等，最后经胡光介绍，师事琵琶名宿汪昱庭数载，潜心研习，得汪氏器重，尽得其艺，为汪氏琵琶承传之代表人物。一九五三年起，李氏先后任教于中央音乐学院、天津音乐学院、中国人民解放军总政治部文工团、沈阳音乐学院、哈尔滨艺术学院与吉林艺专等，并为中国音乐研究所特约演奏员。一九六四年九月，李氏在《音乐论丛》第五辑上发表《传统琵琶的音律和音阶》一文，对界内之影响尤深。一九八二年十二月，他演奏的十首琵琶乐曲，由其子李光祖整理成《琵琶古曲‧李廷松演奏谱》出版。
LI Ting-song
On February 10, 1906, pipa performer LI Ting-song was born in Shanghai, his ancestral home was in Jiangsu Suzhou. After the high school graduation, he was appointed as a salesman. After 1930, he worked in his father’s factory as manager. He liked music when he was young. By 15 years old, he learned pipa from ZHAN Qi-hong, SHI Song-bo and WU Meng-fei. Finally studied under WANG Yu-ting several years. In 1953, LI began his teaching career in the Central Conservatory, the Tianjin conservatory and most of the music institutes in the northern part of China. He is also a special researcher of the Music Research Institute of Chinese Academy of Arts. In September 1964, he publishes the article Temperament and Scale of Traditional Pipa. In December 1982, Beijing’s People Music Publication published a book Ten Ancient Scores on Pipa of LI Ting-song for him. On August 11, 1976, Li died of illness in Beijing.