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About Tan Xiaolin
- Tan Xiaolin (Chinese: ???; pinyin: Tán XiaolÃn; Wade–Giles: T'an Hsiao-lin; April 25, 1911 – August 1, 1948) was a Chinese composer. He was born in Shanghai to parents from Kaiping, Guangdong.
- He composed works for Chinese instruments and several songs while studying music theory and the pipa at the Shanghai Conservatory.
- In 1939, he moved to the United States, where he did further studies with Paul Hindemith at Yale and the Oberlin College.
- He had won a John Day Jackson scholarship with his string trio (1945).
- He returned to Shanghai in 1946 to teach at the Conservatory.
- His pupils include Qu Xixian, Chen Peixun and Sang Tong.
- In 1948, he died in a hospital in Shanghai when he was only 37 years old.Most of Tan's works in the Western classical music style are art songs and chamber works.
- His later pieces show the influence of Hindemith and his interest in aspects of neoclassicism.
- Some of his songs are published in Tan Xiaolin gequ xuanji (A selection of songs by Tan) (Beijing, 1982).
- Tan is regarded as one of the pioneers of the modern art music of China.
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