Toru Takemitsu
See also: Japanese composers|Modern composers|
Born: 8 October 1930 (Japan)
Died: 20 February 1996, Tokyo (Japan)
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Sheet music
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[details ←] Requiem
[details ←] Distance Oboe,
[details ←] Green Percussion,
[details ←] Rain Tree Sketch II Piano,
[details ←] A Flock Descends Into The Pentagonal Garden
[details ←] Toward the Sea Guitar, Flute,
[details ←] Voice Vocal, Flute,
[details ←] Folios Guitar,
[details ←] November Steps Percussion,
[details ←] Rain Tree Sketch Piano,
[details ←] Pause Ininterrompue Piano,
[details ←] Bird Came Down The Walk, Viola/Piano Piano, Viola,
[details ←] Hika Piano, Violin,
[details ←] Les Yeux Clos Piano,
[details ←] Far Away (1972) Piano,
[details ←] Toward the Sea III Flute,
[details ←] Masque continu incidental (1959) Flute,
Music
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.
Biography
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Concerts
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Events
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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.
Links
- primary publisher (Schott)
- fan site with loads of data, with links to dozens of Takemitsu sites
- http://www.musicfromjapan.org/resources/mfjc37.htm
- another fan site - now defunct, but archived - better works list than his publisher, plus translations from Japanese of some Takemitsu’s writings
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