Tian Han
During the 1930s, He studied at the Shanghai Conservatory of Music under Huang Tzu and Russian composer Alexander Tcherepnin. Tcherepnin named him winner of a piano composition contest in 1934 for his work "Buffalo Boy's Flute", which made him famous nationwide (). His best-known compositions are "Song of the Four Seasons" () and "The Wandering Songstress" (天涯歌女, with lyrics by Tian Han), both composed for the 1937 film "Street Angel" and sung by Zhou Xuan.