Japanese Composers of Classical Music: Toru Takemitsu, Fumio Hayasaka, Akira Ifukube, Toshi Ichiyanagi, Mari Takano, Akira Miyoshi, Minoru Miki

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 47. Chapters: Toru Takemitsu, Fumio Hayasaka, Akira Ifukube, Toshi Ichiyanagi, Mari Takano, Akira Miyoshi, Minoru Miki, Karen Tanaka, Hikaru Hayashi, Yoshir Irino, Toshiro Mayuzumi, Dai Fujikura, Hidemaro Konoye, Kosaku Yamada, Makoto Shinohara, Ken-Ichiro Kobayashi, Sadao Bekku, Yoritsune Matsudaira, Toshio Hosokawa, Takashi Yoshimatsu, Jo Kondo, Yasuhide Ito, Keiko Abe, Yasushi Akutagawa, Takekuni Hirayoshi, Ushio Torikai, Maki Ishii, Ikuma Dan, Kaoru Wada, Yoshihisa Taira, Ry hei Hirose, Teizo Matsumura, Kikuko Kanai, Hisato Ohzawa, Mayako Kubo, Kiyoshige Koyama, Masamichi Amano, Shin-ichiro Ikebe, Shigeaki Saegusa, Roh Ogura, Yasuji Kiyose, Y ji Takahashi, Hiroshi Ohguri, Jun Nagao, Junko Mori, Joji Yuasa, Keiko Fujiie, Somei Satoh, Kazuko Hara, Kan Ishii, Makiko Kinoshita, Mamoru Fujieda, Akio Yashiro, Nagako Konishi, Kunihiko Hashimoto, Haruna Miyake, Tomojir Ikenouchi, Akira Nishimura, Takatomi Nobunaga, Makoto Moroi, Hifumi Shimoyama, Kimi Sato, Kikuko Masumoto, Yuzo Toyama, Ko Matsushita, Kazuo Yamada, Ken It . Excerpt: Toru Takemitsu Takemitsu T ru, October 8, 1930 - February 20, 1996) was a Japanese composer and writer on aesthetics and music theory. Largely self-taught, Takemitsu possessed consummate skill in the subtle manipulation of instrumental and orchestral timbre. He drew from a wide range of influences, including jazz, popular music, avant-garde procedures and traditional Japanese music, in a harmonic idiom largely derived from the music of Claude Debussy and Olivier Messiaen. In 1958, his Requiem for strings (1957) gained international attention, led to several commissions from across the world and settled his reputation as one of the leading Japanese composers of the 20th century. He was the recipient of numerous awards, commissions and honours; he composed over 100 film scores and about 130 concert works ...