王迪女士，北京人，一九二三年出生，二ＯＯ五年四月二十六日病逝於北京。從小喜愛操縵，拜在我國古琴大師管平湖門下學琴，深得真傳。一九五二年畢業於中央音樂學院，其後二十多年，一直留校工作，在該院所屬民族音樂研究所協助管平湖先生從事古琴研究工作；一九五六年與許健參加查阜西先生領導的三人小組，向全國琴人進行採訪、錄音、調查工作。由於王迪女士有深厚的琴藝基礎，又具系統的現代音樂知識，自六十年代以來，就致力於琴歌的發掘和打譜研究，經過辛勤的努力，把現代琴學的演唱藝術，邁出了可喜的一步。
WANG Di was born in 1923 in her ancestral home in Beijing and passed away of illness on April 26, 2005 in Beijing. She was fond of qin music since her childhood. She learned the qin under GUAN Ping-hu. She graduated from the Central Conservatory in 1952 and was on the researching staff of the Alma Mater for more then twenty years. In 1956, she joined ZHA Fu-xi and XU Jian to go through over 20 places in China for collecting qin materials and to record over 60 qin player’s performance in more than two hundred picecs of qin music. She was an expert on researching and rearranging of qinge.