Liu Tianhua and His Ten Representative Works

Liu Tianhua or Liu T'ien-hua ( b. Jiangyin, Jiangsu, China, 1895; died 1932) was a Chinese musician and a composer best known for his reformative work for the erhu (Chinese two-string fiddle).

Students of Liu who continued to contribute to the development of the erhu include Jiang Fengzhi and Chen Zhenduo.

Compositions for erhu

Recitation of Leisure	Exercise on A Single String
Shadows of Candles Flickering Red	Sad Song
Towards Brightness	Song of Depression
Empty Mountains Bird Song	Beautiful Evening
Moon Night	Recitation of Ill-being