Ding Shande

Ding Shande studied at Shanghai Conservatory of Music. Xixian Qu is recorded as having studied under Ding Shande. The recorded working language is Chinese. Subjects and genres recorded for the work are classical. Employment is recorded with Shanghai Conservatory of Music.

Ding was born in Kunshan, Jiangsu. He studied music with teachers including Huang Tzu at the Shanghai Conservatory of Music. Ding taught at the Shanghai Conservatory in the late 1930s. From 1947 to 1949, he studied composition in the Paris Conservatoire with Noël Gallon, Tony Aubin, and Nadia Boulanger. He also attended the courses of Arthur Honegger. From 1949, he taught at the Shanghai Conservatory again and became a vice president of the conservatory later. He died in Shanghai in 1995. Ding's influential composition includes the Long March Symphony, symphonic suite New China, and the children's piano suite Happy Festival. He has also written theoretical works. Renowned conductor Yu Long is Ding's grandson.

• Long March, symphony • New China, symphonic suite • Spring, symphonic Poem • Symphonic Overture • Piano Concerto in B flat major • String Quartet in E minor • Piano Trio in C major • Ode to the Huangpu River, cantata • Variations on Themes of Chinese Folk-songs, for piano • Happy Festival, children's piano suite • Xinjiang Dances Nos. 1 and 2, for piano • Blue Mist, art song • My Husband Gives Me a Sunflower, art song • Ode to Orange, art song