Tyzen Hsiao

Tyzen Hsiao
Born
Siau Thài-jiân

(1938-01-01)January 1, 1938
DiedFebruary 24, 2015(2015-02-24) (aged 77)
Occupation(s)Composer, Conductor and Pianist
EraNeo-Romantic
WorksSee music
SpouseGao Jen-Ci
Children4
Chinese name
Traditional Chinese蕭泰然
Simplified Chinese萧泰然
Transcriptions
Standard Mandarin
Hanyu PinyinXiāo Tàirán
Southern Min
Hokkien POJSiau Thài-jiân
Apo Hsu conducts the NTNU Symphony Orchestra and Formosa Festival Choir in the Ilha Formosa Requiem by Tyzen Hsiao. Soloists are Meng-Chieh Hsieh and Yu-Hsin Chang. (Zhongshan Hall, Taipei, Taiwan. September 2007)

Tyzen Hsiao (Chinese: 蕭泰然; pinyin: Xiāo Tàirán; Pe̍h-ōe-jī: Siau Thài-jiân; 1 January 1938 – 24 February 2015) was a Taiwanese composer of the neo-Romantic school. Many of his vocal works set poems written in Taiwanese Hokkien, the mother tongue of the majority of the island's residents at the time. His compositions stand as a musical manifestation of the Taiwanese literature movement that revitalized the island's literary and performing arts in the 1970s and 1980s. Hsiao's career in music included additional success as a pianist and conductor.