Hsu Tsang-Houei (Chinese: 許常惠; pinyin: Xǔ Chánghuì; September 6, 1929 – January 1, 2001) was a Taiwanese musician and music educator.
"[This quote needs a citation] Hsu was born in Hemei Village, Changhua County, Taichung, Taiwan, in the period of Japanese occupation, and went to Japan to study at the age of 12, majoring in violin.
Furthermore, Hsu used Western compositional methods to rewrite traditional Chinese music, such as the cantata "Song of Burial Flowers" written from A Dream of Red Mansions; as well as the opera from The Legend of the White Snake, and the "Baijiachun Concerto", which were well-known and well received.
Hsu was influenced by Béla Bartók's use of folk music, as well as Antonín Dvořák's embrace of nationalism.
In 1988, he took a group of indigenous artists on a tour of European countries including France, Switzerland, Germany and the Netherlands.