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綦湘棠（1919–2007），原名綦湘鏿，出生於廣東南海佛山鎮，原籍湖南衡山，香港電影作曲家。他出身音樂科班，畢業於國立音樂院，曾在中華交響樂團任演奏部幹事，來港後把學院派的作曲技法帶入國語電影音樂。抗戰期間，他先參加香港青年會的隨軍服務團，後加入演劇四隊工作。1948年他返港，在嶺英中學任教音樂七年；1950至60年代香港國語片蓬勃，歌舞片尤盛，他的歌曲隨電影在台灣與東南亞流傳。1950年，他開始為電影作曲，首部作品是林黛成名作《翠翠》（1953），其中插曲〈你真美〉即出自其手。他為國語片寫過不少歌曲，如《四千金》（1957）的〈劍舞〉、《曼波女郎》（1957）的〈忘憂歌〉與〈我的天堂〉，以及《香車美人》（1959）與《溫柔鄉》（1960）的主題曲；他亦為李香蘭主演的《一夜風流》（1958）寫下插曲〈情枷愛鎖〉。他為電影配樂始於1956年的《金鳳》。自1955年起，他已為國際電影懋業有限公司（電懋）的影片作曲與配樂，至1962年8月才正式簽約加盟，配樂作品包括《四千金》、《天長地久》（1959）、《蘭閨風雲》（1959）與《無語問蒼天》（1961）等，並曾為邵氏兄弟（香港）有限公司的《後門》（1960）及國聯影業有限公司的《冬暖》（1969）配樂；他的配樂橫跨電懋、邵氏與國聯等公司，題材由歌舞片到文藝片皆有，風格兼顧學院技法與流行旋律。1973年7月他移居加拿大，此後逐漸淡出樂壇，2007年5月3日逝世。
English
Kei Shang-tong (1919–2007), original name Kei Xiangchan, was a Hong Kong film composer born in the Foshan town of Nanhai, Guangdong, with ancestral roots in Hengshan, Hunan. Trained in music, he graduated from the National Conservatory of Music and worked in the performance department of the China Symphony Orchestra, bringing a conservatory technique to Mandarin film music after settling in Hong Kong. During the war against Japan he first joined the Hong Kong YMCA's military service corps and later worked with the Fourth Drama Troupe. Returning to Hong Kong in 1948, he taught music at Ling Ying Middle School for seven years; as Hong Kong's Mandarin cinema, and musicals in particular, flourished in the 1950s and 1960s, his songs travelled with the films to Taiwan and Southeast Asia. He began writing film music in 1950, his first work being the Linda Lin Dai vehicle Cui Cui (1953), which included his song Ni Zhen Mei. He wrote many songs for Mandarin films, such as Jian Wu for Our Sister Hedy (1957) and Wang You Ge and Wo de Tian Tang for Mambo Girl (1957), plus theme songs for Xiang Che Mei Ren (1959) and Wen Rou Xiang (1960), and an inserted song, Qing Jia Ai Suo, for the Li Xianglan picture Yi Ye Feng Liu (1958). He began scoring films with Jin Feng (1956). From 1955 he composed and scored for the MP & GI studio, formally signing with it in August 1962, and worked on titles including Our Sister Hedy, Tian Chang Di Jiu (1959), Lan Gui Feng Yun (1959) and Wu Yu Wen Cang Tian (1961). He also scored Shaw Brothers' Hou Men (1960) and the Guolian studio's Dong Nuan (1969), his scoring spanning the MP & GI, Shaw and Guolian studios across musicals and drama. He emigrated to Canada in July 1973, gradually withdrawing from the music world, and died on 3 May 2007.
