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Tyzen Hsiao | |||||||||||
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Born | Siau Thài-jiân January 1, 1938 | ||||||||||
Died | February 24, 2015 | (aged 77)||||||||||
Occupation(s) | Composer, Conductor and Pianist | ||||||||||
Era | Neo-Romantic | ||||||||||
Works | See music | ||||||||||
Spouse | Gao Jen-Ci | ||||||||||
Children | 4 | ||||||||||
Chinese name | |||||||||||
Traditional Chinese | 蕭泰然 | ||||||||||
Simplified Chinese | 萧泰然 | ||||||||||
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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.