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Liu Zhuang
Shanghai-born woman composer, a pupil of Ding Shande and Sang Tong who taught at the Shanghai and Central conservatories, co-wrote the Yellow River Piano Concerto and scored the film Little Soldier Zhang Ga.
Mural of the cultural record “Chinese Works for Western Instruments”, which this person is tied to.
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Liu Zhuang was born in Shanghai on 24 October 1932 and learned the piano from her father as a child. She entered the composition department of the Shanghai Conservatory in 1950, studying with Ding Shande, Sang Tong and Deng Erjing, joined its staff in 1958, and in 1960 moved to the composition department of the Central Conservatory in Beijing, also serving as a composer for the Central Philharmonic. In 1969 she and Yin Chengzong, Chu Wanghua, Sheng Lihong and others completed the Yellow River Piano Concerto. Her film scores include Little Soldier Zhang Ga, Border Town and Crescent Moon. From 1989 to 2003 she taught at Syracuse University in the United States. She died in Beijing on 30 June 2011, aged 78.
Life and times
Dates 1932–2011