Toru Takemitsu


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Sat 28 Nov: Contemporary piano music recital, Ljuba Moiz, piano Palazzo del Principe,Sala degli Argenti ,Genoa-Italy
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[details ←] Signals from Heaven - Two Antiphonal Fanfares

[details ←] 12 Songs for Guitar, guitar,

[details ←] Rain Tree Sketch, piano,

[details ←] Requiem

[details ←] A Flock Descends Into The Pentagonal Garden

[details ←] Quatrain II, clarinet, violin, piano, cello,

[details ←] Distance, oboe,

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[details ←] Rain Tree Sketch II, piano,

[details ←] Green, percussion, harp,

[details ←] November Steps, clarinet, trombone, oboe, trumpet, percussion, harp,

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[details ←] Air (Flute), flute,

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Born: 8 October 1930 — Japan
Died: 20 February 1996 — Tokyo — Japan
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Many would take issue with the characterization of Takemitsu as mainly a film score composer. Many regard him as Japan’s most important 20th C. classical composer. Altho he did 93 film scores, his more than 130 classical compositions are more substantial.

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28 November 2009: Palazzo del Principe,Sala degli Argenti ,Genoa-Italy Contemporary piano music recital, Ljuba Moiz, piano

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8 March 1990: Premiere of Visions, in Chicago, USA.
30 June 1990: Premiere of My Way of Life, in Leeds, England.
14 September 1991: Premiere of Fantasma, in Cardiff, Wales.
13 October 1991: Premiere of Quotation of Dream, in London, England.

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