Ding Shande

Ding Shande (; November 12, 1911 – December 8, 1995) was a Chinese composer, pianist, and music teacher.

Biography 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.

Works 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 Children's Suite - Chen Jie, Naxos 8.570602, 2007. Spring Suite [and other piano works] - Ding Jiannuo, Marco Polo 82083, 2000. Xinjiang Dances Nos. 1 & 2 - Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra, Adrian Leaper, Marco Polo 8.223408, 1991. Variations on a Chinese Folk Theme - Shanghai Philharmonic Orchestra, Cao Peng, Marco Polo 8.223956, 1995. Variations on a Xinjiang Folk Tune - Shanghai Philharmonic Orchestra, Cao Peng, Marco Polo 8.223956, 1995.