Qu Xiao-Song
Qu Xiao-Song (瞿小松; surname Qu, b. Guiyang, Guizhou province, southwest China, September 6, 1952) is a Chinese composer of contemporary classical music. He is a 1983 graduate of the Central Conservatory of Music in Beijing, where he studied composition with Du Mingxin.
Also recorded as Xiao-Song Qu · Xiaosong Qu
Qu Xiao-Song
- Born
- 1952 · Guiyang.
- Nationality
- People's Republic of China
- Occupation
- conductor · composer · musicologist · librettist · musician
- Fields
- opera
- Languages
- Chinese
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Qu Xiao-Song (瞿小松; surname Qu, b. Guiyang, Guizhou province, southwest China, September 6, 1952) is a Chinese composer of contemporary classical music. He is a 1983 graduate of the Central Conservatory of Music in Beijing, where he studied composition with Du Mingxin.
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Chamber music
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In 1989 he was invited by the Center for US-China Arts Exchange of Columbia University in New York City to be a visiting scholar, and he continues to live in New York City. He has received commissions from the Holland Festival, American Composers Forum, Hong Kong Chinese Orchestra, and Boston Musica Viva. His operas Oedipus and The Death of Oedipus were premiered in 1993 and 1994 respectively, in Stockholm and Amsterdam. His chamber opera The Test (2004) was commissioned by the Munich Biennale and Contemporary Opera Berlin, and performed in both cities in May 2004. His name is sometimes also written Qu Xiaosong.
• Cello Concerto for cello and chamber ensemble • Cursive, violoncello and percussion ensemble • Ji No. 1, large mixed ensemble • Ji No. 2, Floating Clouds, mixed quartet, Asian instrument and ensemble • Ji No. 3: Silent Mountain, solo guitar or Asian instrument • Ji No. 4, percussion solo • Ji No. 5, Asian instrument and ensemble • Ji No. 6, percussion ensemble, large mixed ensemble • Ji No. 7, solo violin or violoncello • Lam Mot, percussion ensemble • String Symphony, string orchestra • The Girl of the Mountain, string solo and orchestra • Xi, percussion ensemble
Orchestral works
Orchestral works
• Cello Concerto for cello and full orchestra • Symphony No. 1 • Huan • The Mountain
Vocal works
Vocal works
• Fang Yan Kou, low voice and ensemble • Mist, vocal soloists and ensemble • Mist 2, high voice and ensemble • Mist 3, high voice and ensemble • Mong Dong, low voice and ensemble • Weisst du wie der Regen klingt.../Rain, mixed chorus and ensemble
Oratorio
Oratorio
• Cleaving the Coffin: Oratorio, mixed chorus, vocal soloists and ensemble
Opera
Opera
• Life on a String • Oedipus • The Death of Oedipus • The Test
Trivia
Trivia
• Qu dated the Chinese actress Bai Ling in the mid-1990s.
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- 1.Grove Music Online 49192 Zhang Weihua Qu Xiao-song
- 2.Attila Kornel-Markula. Semantik: Qu Xiaosong und Chen Qigang. 2022. 978-3-8309-4406-5.
- 3.Versuchung auf: Zeitgenössische Oper Berlin
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