Lu Yen (Chinese: 盧炎; pinyin: Lú Yán; Wade–Giles: Lu² Yen²; 20 November 1930 – 1 October 2008) was a Chinese-born Taiwanese composer.
[1] Lu wrote in his article "My Artistic Journey" that he wished to write "music praising mother nature's great beauty and powers.
Among these works, there was a repeated theme about the sound of bell, which Lu always remembered from his childhood in the Jiangnan region of China.
Two biographies were published in Taiwan, Lu Yen: A Cold Fire of Music,[3] written by Taiwanese poet Chen Li (陳黎) in 1997 and A Poetic Journey of Nostalgia,[4] by Canadian-Taiwanese composer Shyh-ji Chew (潘世姬) and Taiwanese composer Janet Jieru Chen (陳玠如) in 2004, both published by Taiwan's China Times Publishing Co. Digitalization data of Lu's art song manuscripts and analytic entries are available at Nation Music Archive and Taiwan Music Center of the National Center for Traditional Arts, Taipei, Taiwan.
Soochow University (Taipei, Taiwan), where he taught music composition and counterpoint for 30 years, has a memorial room and a growing collection of Lu's manuscripts.