Background
He was born in Xinjian (新建), Jiangxi to a family of officials.
程懋筠, 杭州社會大學
He was born in Xinjian (新建), Jiangxi to a family of officials.
He studied music in Jiangxi Provincial Higher Normal School (江西省立高等师范学校 Jiāngxī shěnglì gāoděng shīfàn xuéxiào), and the Ueno Music Academy (上野音樂學院) in Tokyo.
He composed the "National Anthem of the Republic of China". He majored in violin, then music theory, and composition. In 1928, his submission of the melody of "Three Principles of the People" was chosen.
In 1947, he travelled to Taiwan for the first time, where Hsiao Er-hua (蕭而化 Xiāo Érhuà), head of the College of Music in the Taiwan Provincial Normal University, offered Cheng Maoyun a position, but he refused.
He never returned to Taiwan again. He had a stroke in 1951 in Xi"an, and he died of second stroke July 31, 1957.
The official university song of the National Central University, now on Taiwan, is also composed by Cheng. Zhang Yongzhen (张咏真), Cheng"s wife, is a piano professor at the Xi"an Music Academy.