作曲家、民族乐器演奏家、音乐教育家刘天华先生1895年2月4日诞生于江苏省江阴县一个清贫的知识分子家庭。其父刘宝珊是清末秀才、倡导新学、曾办翰墨林小学。 刘天华1909年入常州中学读书时开始学习西洋管乐器。1911年学校停办后参加“反满青年团”军乐队,1912年随其兄刘半农(文学家) Composer, folk instrumentist, music educator Mr. Liu Tianhua was born on February 4, 1895 in Jiangyin County, Jiangsu Province, a poor family of intellectuals. His father, Liu Baoshan, was a scholar at the end of the Qing dynasty who advocated new schools. Liu Tianhua began his studies of Western wind instruments when he entered Changzhou Middle School in 1909. After the school was closed in 1911, it joined the “Anti-Manchus” military band and in 1912 accompanied his brother Liu Bannong (writer)