王乙，一九一九年十二月二十七日出生于江苏省吴县浒墅关镇一小商人家庭，二○○二年病逝于上海，享年八十三岁。其父王启明甚好丝竹，家中丝竹乐器一应俱全，王氏自小即耳濡目染，沉浸于丝竹声中，并把玩各式乐器，习奏二胡、琵琶、笛、箫等。一九四六年九月至一九五六年七月，王氏在上海敬业中学任教达十年之久，并在民立女中兼课年馀。其间，除作有以家乡浒墅关庙会的《说音歌》为素材之《田野小曲》外，一九五三年，又以家乡浒墅关的“挑泥号子”为素材作成二胡曲《丰收》、据昆曲《玉簪记‧琴挑》改编成《朝元歌》。王氏所教学生甚多，包括著名的二胡演奏家闵惠芬、马晓晖、李肇芳、周维及在上海音乐学院任教的吴之珉、王莉莉等。并以自己的座右铭不时告诫学生：“清清爽爽做人，认认真真学习，不受任何干扰”。
WANG Yi
WANG Yi was born on December 27, 1919 in Wu district, Jiangsu province and passed away of illness in 2002 in Shanghai. His father WANG Qi-ming was a traditional music lover and could play most of the instruments that gave WANG Yi a good chance to approach the traditional music. In between September 1946 to July 1956, he taught in the Professional School of Shanghai and composed his maiden erhu piece The Field Song. In 1953, he composed according to the folk music of his hometown a new erhu piece Good Harvest and based on Kunqu wrote the Chao Yuan Ge. He always teaches the fellow students to learn the music in a no disturbance circumstance. His students include MIN Hui-fen, MA Xiao-hui, LI Zhao-fang, ZHOU Wei, WU Zhi-min, WANG Li-li, etc.