民间管乐演奏家杨元亨，一八九三年二月二十一日出生于河北省安平县南王宋村，一九五八年二月二十日病逝于安平县角丘村，七岁在吕祖庙出家当道士，道名元亨，师从永兴及老莲，学习工尺谱、管、笛、笙、唢呐、胡琴及敲击乐，十一岁已能登坛演奏道乐，期间他所抄写之曲谱，已成研究河北民间音乐的珍贵资料。一九四六年，往定县子位村吹歌会传授民间吹管乐，一九五一年，应聘到天津中央音乐学院任教管子专业及民间打击乐课程，一九五六年，升任副教授。
Yang Yuan-heng Yang was a folk wind instrumentalist. He was born in Hebei in 1893 and died in 1958. He became a Taoist at the age of 7 and learned various types of musical instruments from elder Taoists. He started his performance life since 11 . All the handwritten scores and materials of Yang had become the most precious materials for researching the Hebei folk music. In 1946, he began to teach his art and in 1951, he was invited to Tiantsin Conservatory to teach wind instruments and percussions music. In 1956, he was promoted to vice-professor.