Qu Xiao-Song

Qu Xiao-Song (瞿小松; surname Qu, born 1952, in southwestern China) 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. 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.

Music

Chamber music
  • 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
  • Cello Concerto for cello and full orchestra
  • Symphony No. 1
  • Huan
  • The Mountain

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
  • Cleaving the Coffin: Oratorio, mixed chorus, vocal soloists and ensemble

Opera
  • Life on a String
  • Oedipus
  • The Death of Oedipus
  • The Test

Trivia
  • Qu dated the Chinese actress Bai Ling in the mid-1990s.[1]
gollark: They probably can't/won't eternally torture you, but there's a *possibility* of that infinite harm which is reduced by giving them £100, and if you accept the Pascal's Wager logic you should do that.
gollark: There's actually another similar thing, Pascal's *Mugging*, in which someone comes up to you and says "give me £100 or I will eternally torture you after you die".
gollark: But there are an infinitely large number of possible gods, and some do weirder things like "punish/reward entirely at random", "have no interest whatsoever in humanity", "punish people who believe in other gods", and all that, and Pascal's Wager just *ignores* those.
gollark: Pascal's Wager might work if the only options are "no god" or "one god, and it's the one you believe in, and they'll reward you if you believe and punish you otherwise".
gollark: Also, I should be specific, "a god and associated religious claims", not just "a god".

References
  1. Bai Ling: The innocent past story Archived 2007-02-02 at the Wayback Machine (in Chinese)
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