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Although Takemitsu was essentially a self-taught composer, he nevertheless sought contact with outstanding teachers: Toshi Ichiyanagi acquainted the composer with the European avant-garde of Messiaen, Nono und Stockhausen, and Fumio Hayasaka introduced Takemitsu to the world of film music and forged contacts to the film director Akira Kurosawa for whom Takemitsu produced several scores to film plots.
Tōru Takemitsu was a Japanese composer and writer on aesthetics and music theory. Largely self-taught, Takemitsu was admired for the subtle manipulation of instrumental and orchestral timbre. He is known for combining elements of oriental and occidental philosophy and for fusing sound with silence and tradition with innovation. He composed several hundred independent works of music, scored more than ninety films and published twenty books. He was also a founding member of the Jikken Kōbō ...
Tōru Takemitsu étudie la musique avec Yasuji Kiyose. Il découvre la musique occidentale durant la Seconde Guerre mondiale, et se passionne dès lors pour la musique française ( Claude Debussy , Erik Satie et Olivier Messiaen ), entre autres.
Jun 18, 2019 · Equinox (1993) is Tōru Takemitsu’s penultimate piece for solo guitar dedicated to Kiyoshi Shomura and premiered by him in Tokyo on 4th April, 1994. Taking th...
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Jan 14, 2020 · <2>In 1970s Takemitsu underwent significant stylistic changes. One critic asked that “Has Tōru Takemitsu forfeited his avant-garde standing amongst his peers?” The timing of Takemitsu’s stylistic changes in his music coincides with when Takemitsu identified many of his compositions as inspired by the Japanese garden.
May 26, 2024 · As one sphere of our activities, to carry out the intention of the Foundation’s first artistic director, the late Toru Takemitsu, under the theme of “Prayer, Hope and Peace” and “Window to the Future”, the Foundation established the “Toru Takemitsu Composition Award” in order to inspire younger generations all over the world to contribute to the creation of new musical compositions.
Feb 11, 2023 · Trying to interview Takemitsu was a tantalizing experience: his ideas were within immediate reach and yet hopelessly unattainable. Their richness and originality shone through his inability to express them: his English vocabulary was simply too limited.
