Xiao Shuxian [SEP] place of birth
Xiao Shuxian
Xiao Shuxian (Simplified Chinese: 萧淑娴; Traditional Chinese: 蕭淑嫻; Pinyin: Xiāo Shúxián; sometimes spelled Hsiao Shu-sien) (4 April 1905 in Tianjin – 26 November 1991 in Beijing) was a Chinese composer and music educator.
Xiao was born into a highly cultural Chinese family, some of her relatives were known people in Chinese history. After a period of music studying in China, she went to the Royal Conservatory at Brussels, winning a prize there in 1932. From 1935 to 1954
's style combines elements of Chinese folk culture with traditional Western techniques; she developed it mainly through teaching polyphony in the 1950s. Most of her works are written for small medium such as vocal and piano solo. The best among them, for example, the Piano Sonatina, can be described as having a neo-classical style.
References.
- Lindorff, Joyce. "Xiao Shuxian." The Norton/Grove Dictionary of Women Composers. Julie Anne Sadie and Rhian Samuel, eds. New York; London: