Performers
Composers
Composers who created, adapted and arranged music
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In a palace music hall, a frame of tiered bronze chime bells hangs from dragon-carved beams, with one person standing with their back turned holding two mallets before it; a large red drum and a rack of red knotted cords stand to the left and a stone chime to the right, in evening light.
Composers are people who created, adapted and arranged music: those who wrote for instruments, set lyrics and composed for drama, those who set court ritual music, and in modern times those who wrote new-style songs and instrumental works. Their achievement appears in scores, music treatises and historical records. They differ from musicians in being defined by making music rather than performing it.
- Lady TangshanDates unknown; active in the reign of Emperor Gaozu of Han
- Li YannianBirth date unknown; died c. 101 BCE by one account
- Huan YiBirth year unknown; died 391
- Zu Xiaosun562 CE–631 CE
- Lv Cai606–665 CE
- Li GuinianDates unknown; active from Emperor Xuanzong's reign to the Dali era
- Zhou Bangyan1056 CE–1121 CE
- Xu ShenDates unknown; active in the Zhenghe era (1111–1118 CE)
- Jiang Kuic. 1155 CE–c. 1221 CE (death by another account c. 1209)
- Guo MianDates unknown; active in the Southern Song, c. 1195–1207
- Leng QianDates unknown; appointed music director in 1367
- Wei LiangfuDates unknown; active at Taicang in the Jiajing reign, his Nanci yinzheng bearing a colophon of 1547
- Qiu Zhilu1781 CE–1849 CE
- He BozhongDates disputed; by one account 1833–1874
- Yan Laoliec. 1850 – c. 1930
- Zeng Zhimin1879 CE–1929 CE
- Shen Xingong1870 CE–1947 CE
- Li Shutong (Master Hongyi)1880–1942 CE
- Xiao Youmei1884 CE–1940 CE
- Sela Xi1887 CE–1968 CE
- Li Jinhui1891 CE–1967 CE
- Zhao Yuanren1892 CE–1982 CE
- Hua Yanjun1893 CE–1950 CE
- Liao Shangguo1893 CE–1959 CE
- Liu Tianhua1895 CE–1932 CE
No people in this role for that dynasty.