Hwang Byungki's lyrics & chords

Hwang Byungki (황병기, b. Seoul, 1936) is the foremost South Korean player of the gayageum, a 12-string zither with silk strings. Hwang is also a composer and an authority on Korean sanjo, a form of traditional Korean instrumental music. In 1951 he began playing gayageum at The National Center for Korean Traditional Performing Arts in Seoul, where he studied under the famous gayageum masters Kim Yeong-yun, Kim Yun-deok , and Shim Sang-geon. In 1959 he graduated from Seoul National University School of Law. In 1962 he began composing concer...read more