Yan Jinxuan
Chinese composer
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| Intro | Chinese composer | |
| Places | China | |
| was | Musician Composer | |
| Work field | Music | |
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| Birth | May 1924 | |
| Death | 20 November 2014 (aged 90 years) | |
| Politics: | Communist Party Of China |
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Yan Jinxuan (simplified Chinese: 严金萱; traditional Chinese: 嚴金萱; pinyin: Yán Jīnxuān) (born May 1924) is a Chinese composer.
She is best known for composing the music to the opera and ballet, The White Haired Girl. The opera was first performed in 1945. Yan composed a ballet with music adapted from the opera. The eight-act ballet premiered in 1965, performed by the Shanghai Dance Academy (now known as the Shanghai Ballet Company).