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Ouyang Qianshu
Composer from Xiangxiang, Hunan, long with the Hubei opera company, who with Zhang Jing'an wrote the music of the opera Honghu Chiweidui, whose film won the first Hundred Flowers award for music.
Mural of the cultural record “National Opera”, which this person is tied to.
Also known as Also named Ouyang Xi
- Roles
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Ouyang Qianshu, also named Ouyang Xi, came from Xiangxiang, Hunan, and was born in December 1926. In 1951 he studied composition at the East China branch of the Central Conservatory of Music, then worked for the Hubei local opera company as composer, group leader and deputy head of its arts office, later becoming a first-grade composer of the Hubei Opera Theatre. With Zhang Jing'an he wrote the music of the opera Honghu Chiweidui; after it was filmed, the two won the music award at the first Hundred Flowers Awards in 1962. He also wrote the solo song Zuguo dadi ren wo zou. He died of illness on 5 December 2003, aged seventy-six.
Life and times
Dates 1926 CE–2003 CE