我国最早的新型音乐社团是北京大学音乐研究会。它的前身是1916年成立的“北京大学音乐团”,后改名为“北京大学研究会”,该校校长蔡元培任会长。我国最早的正式专业学校是教育家蔡元培1927年在上海创立的国立音乐院(后改为音乐专科学校)。我国最早的交响音乐作品是黄自的交响序曲《怀旧》(为纪念他已故的爱人所作)。这是他由美国的耶鲁大学毕业时 Our earliest new music society is Peking University Music Research Association. Its predecessor was the “Peking University Music Orchestra” founded in 1916, and later renamed “Peking University Research Association”. Its president, Cai Yuanpei, became the president. The earliest official professional school in China was the State Conservatory (later renamed as Music College) founded by the educator Cai Yuanpei in 1927 in Shanghai. The earliest symphonic music in our country is the yellow symphony “nostalgia” (to commemorate his late lover). This is when he graduated from Yale University in the United States