陆修棠，一九一一年十二月出生于江苏昆山城内北后街一个知识份子家庭，一九六六年八月三十一日在上海与世长辞，享年五十五岁。陆氏曾用名伯平，号憩南。一九二一年读小学时，已好丝竹；一九二四年，受中学音乐教师王允功影响，热衷学习诸般国乐器之演奏，并与同窗丁善德组织国乐队。一九二七年，从张季让学习二胡，一九三○年，从丁善德处获得蒋风之、陈振铎等传抄之刘天华二胡名谱，并随之学习，一九三三年在，上海国立音专时，又从朱荇青习琵琶，一九四二年，返回故里执教，以其琴艺及处女作《怀乡行》名噪江南，一九五一年十一月，任教华东师大音乐系为副教授，一九五六年，调任北京艺术师范学院二胡专业教师，一九五八年春，陆氏任上海音乐学院民族音乐系教研室主任。教有学生吴之珉、林心铭、刘树秉、胡祖庭及吴赣伯等多人。一九六一年及一九六三年，陆氏分别组织与主持了在上海举行的全国高等艺术院校第一次二胡教材会议和第四届“上海之春”二胡比赛，并主编了全国高等艺术院校的《二胡曲选》与二胡比赛新作品选集《二胡曲十首》的出版。
LU Xiu-tang
LU Xiu-tang was born in December 1911 in Kunshan, Jiangsu province and passed away on August 31, 1966 in Shanghai. His original names were Bo-ping and Qi-nan. In 1921, he loved the traditional music when he studied in a primary school. In 1924, he was influenced by his secondary school teacher WANG Yun-gong to learn the traditional instruments and to form an ensemble together with his classmate DING Shan-de. In 1927, he learned the erhu under ZHANG Ji-rang. In 1930, he learned the erhu pieces of LIU Tian-hua by himself through the copies from DING Shan-de. In 1933, he was admitted to the National Shanghai Music Training Institute learning the pipa from ZHU Ying. In 1942, he returned to his homeland and taught music there. His techniques in erhu and his maiden composition Homesick were both well received. In 1951, he was appointed to the music department of the Eastern China University as associate professor. In 1956, he was transferred to the Beijing Arts Academy as a professional erhu teacher. In 1958, he was appointed the chief officer to the traditional music department of the Shanghai Conservatory. Over there, he has trained up many students including WU Zhi-min, LIN Xin-ming, LIU Bing-shu, HU Zu-ting and WU Gan-bo, etc. In 1961 and 1963, he has organized the 1st Conference of National Erhu Teaching Materials for the Conservatories and the national erhu competition of the 4th Shanghai Spring Festival, respectively. He has also edited and published the books Selection of Erhu Pieces and the Ten Pieces on Erhu.