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Mao-Sheng Chen (陳茂生)

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Mao-Sheng Chen (陳茂生)

Identity Snapshot

  • English: Mao-Sheng Chen
  • Chinese: 陳茂生
  • Era: 1942
  • Geography: 台灣新竹市
  • Core roles: engineer, educator
  • Source: TAH Foundation Who’s Who

Chen Mao-sheng, born in 1942 in Hsinchu, Taiwan, is a church musician and organist with a life-long connection with church and organ music in Taiwan. Cheng grew up with church music and once learned the piano from Hsu Sung-jen. He went for postgraduate studies in the USA, where he got his Master of Art in Religion and Master of Art in Church Music, majoring in organ and also being good at choral conducting, and then came back to serve as Director of Department of Music, Taiwan Theological College and Seminary. Chen has given numerous organ classes and worked proactively on arranging and translating sacred choral music from around the world, which resulted in the publication of a series of 100-plus volumes of choral music by Glory Music and Grace Music, thereby making outstanding contributions to the development of organ and Christian sacred music in Taiwan.

Education

  • 中原理工學院 — 1967 — B.S. 土木工程學系
  • 美國南方浸信會神學院教會音樂院 — 1975 — M.S. Music

Employment

  • Miller Pipe Organ — 2006- — 管風琴諮詢顧問
  • 台灣神學院 — 1976- — 音樂系系主任

Sacred Music Contributions

  • Trained in the church-music milieu of Hsinchu and studied piano under Hsu Sung-jen before engineering studies at 中原理工學院 (1967, B.S. 土木工程).
  • Postgraduate study at the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary School of Church Music (1975, M.S. Music): M.A. in Religion and M.A. in Church Music, majoring in organ, with strength in choral conducting.
  • As Director of the Department of Music at 台灣神學院 (from 1976), led numerous organ classes and proactive arranging/translation of sacred choral music worldwide; the resulting Glory Music and Grace Music series of 100+ volumes of choral music is cited by the TAH encyclopedia (#567, #284) as an outstanding contribution to organ and Christian sacred music in Taiwan — |PCT.
  • Organ consultant for Miller Pipe Organ (2006–), bridging instrument building and church-music practice.

Family

  • Wife: Nancy

Sources

  • |TAH Foundation
  • |taiwaneseamericanhistory.org
  • |Presbyterian Church in Taiwan — the church-music milieu of his Hsinchu upbringing and his decades directing music at 台灣神學院
  • [[works/taiwaneseamericanhistory-org/567-chen-mao-sheng-e9-99-b3-e8-8c-82-e7-94-9f-2201509|TAH #567 encyclopedia entry]]
  • [[works/taiwaneseamericanhistory-org/284-e9-99-b3-e8-8c-82-e7-94-9f-organist-201509|TAH #284 — Organist entry]]

語料複核（deepen-x slice 09141400-22，2026-09-14）— SKIP（理由記錄於頁）

  • 全語料 grep（content/works、content/articles，繁簡與姓名全形變體）命中僅本人書目頁 [[works/taiwaneseamericanhistory-org/567-chen-mao-sheng-e9-99-b3-e8-8c-82-e7-94-9f-2201509|TAH #567]]、[[works/taiwaneseamericanhistory-org/284-e9-99-b3-e8-8c-82-e7-94-9f-organist-201509|TAH #284]]（均 B 級書目記錄，無正文可吸收）與 works/index 目錄行；PCT 頁僅有本人反向連結。
  • 《我們的旅程》等 band A 回憶錄中的「Mao-sheng」命中屬 TACL 籌委 Mao-sheng Yang（楊茂生）（[[works/taiwaneseamericanhistory-org/ourjourneys272-eng|TAH #272]]、[[works/taiwaneseamericanhistory-org/ourjourneys186-eng|TAH #186]]），非本人，已排除——無誤鏈。
  • 結論：社群語料無新增可吸收事實；本頁既有 Sacred Music Contributions 已涵蓋 TAH 兩筆出處全部所載。
  • Recheck slice 09150316-2（2026-09-15）：重掃命中不變（僅本人書目頁 #567、#284 與 index 行；楊茂生 Mao-sheng Yang 同名排除仍成立）。SKIP：無新增可吸收事實。
  • Recheck slice 09142319-6（2026-09-15）：重掃（陳茂生／Mao-Sheng Chen）命中不變——僅本人書目頁 #567、#284 與 works/index 目錄行；楊茂生（Mao-sheng Yang）同名排除仍成立。SKIP：無新增可吸收事實。

Network

  • |PCT — TAH Who’s Who

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