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1929年生於臺灣省彰化縣；1940在東京開始學小提琴；1953國立臺灣師範大學音樂系畢業。1954留學於巴黎入巴黎大學隨夏野（Jachues Chailley）修音樂史；隨岳禮維(Andr’e Jolivet) 學作曲1959回臺灣。曾發起”製樂小集””新樂初奏””民族音樂研究中心””中國現代音樂協會””亞洲作曲家同盟”等，致力於現代音樂的創作與民族音樂 的研究。
現任國立臺灣藝術專科學校音樂科教授，私立東吳大學音樂系教授，中華民國音樂學會理事，亞洲作曲家同盟名譽會員。
Hsu, Tsang-Houei a leading figure among Taiwanese composers, was born in Changhua, Taiwan in 1929. In 2001, at the age seventy-two, he passed away in Taipei. Hsu graduated from the Department of Music at National Taiwan Normal University, then he went to Paris to study composition with André Jolivet. His music was also influenced by Claude Debussy, Béla Bartók and Chinese composer Kwang-Chi Wang. Hsu returned to Taiwan in 1959 and introduced the liberal thinking and twentieth-century composition techniques to Taiwan.
Among his major achievements is his research of the existent folk music in Taiwan. During his lifetime, he collected, organized and investigated Taiwanese folk music and published remarkable articles related to Taiwanese folk music and the music history of Taiwan. For the purpose of preserving the tradition of Chinese folk music and creating Taiwanese new music, he was active in the establishment of the following professional organizations: the Music Premiere Chinese Folk Music Research Center, the Chinese Folk Arts Foundation, the China Folk Music Society, the Chinese Composers’ Forum, the Music Creative Group, the Chinese Society for Contemporary Music, the Composers’ Association of the Republic of China and the Asian Composers’ League.
In addition to his work as a researcher and publisher, Hsu was a professor who taught composition, theory, and musicology at National Taiwan Normal University, National Taipei University of the Arts, Soochow University and Chinese Culture University. His outstanding accomplishments in the history of music in Taiwan had earned him much praise as the “father of modern Taiwanese music.”
LU, YEN / 盧炎
Born in 1930 in Nan-Jin city in mainland China, Yen Lu fled to Taiwan due to the political situation in 1949. Later he entered National Taiwan Normal University and received his formal musical education there. In 1965, he moved to the United States and studied with William Sydeman at the Mannes College of Music, New York. After he graduated from Mannes, he became a pupil of Mario Davidovsky at the City University of New York, and later he studied with George Rochberg and George Crumb at the University of Pennsylvania.
He returned to Taiwan in 1979 after his fourteen-year stay in the U.S. Today, Lu is a skillful composer who ingeniously incorporates the spirit of Eastern music into the twentieth century Western compositional style. Currently, Lu teaches composition at Soochow University.
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