Aaron Avshalomov (Russian: Ааро́н Авшало́мов;[1] 11 November 1894 – 16 April 1965) was a Russian-born Jewish composer.

[2][3] Born into a Mountain Jewish family in Nikolayevsk-on-Amur, Russia, Avshalomov was sent for medical studies to Zürich.

[4] After the October Revolution in 1917, which made further studies in Europe impossible, his family sent him to the United States.

[5][6] Between 1918 and 1947, he worked to create a synthesis of Chinese musical elements and Western techniques of orchestral composition.

[8] In the spring of 1935, at the invitation of He Luting, he orchestrated the newly composed March of the Volunteers by Nie Er for the film Children of Troubled Times (1935), making him the first to orchestrate what would become the national anthem of the People's Republic of China.