Zhu Jian'er (Chinese:
朱践耳; born October 18, 1922 in Tianjin, China) is a Chinese composer. Zhu was born in Tianjin and brought up in Shanghai, and lived in Jing County, Anhui, China. He began composing in 1940 and pursued composition studies at the Moscow Conservatory in 1955. He is a professor at the Shanghai Conservatory. He has composed for both Western and Chinese instruments and his works have been performed around the world. In 2000 he was commissioned by
Yo-Yo Ma's Silk Road Project to compose Silk Road Reverie. His 1950 revolutionary work Days of Emancipation (翻身的日…
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