Tōru Takemitsu (武満 徹, pronounced [takeꜜmitsɯ̥ toːɾɯ]; 8 October 1930 – 20 February 1996) was a Japanese composer and writer on aesthetics and music theory...
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of compositions by Tōru Takemitsu. The works are categorized by genre, date of composition, titles and scoring. Scores by Takemitsu are published by Ongaku...
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The Toru Takemitsu Composition Award (武満徹作曲賞, Takemitsu Tōru sakkyoku-shō) is an international music competition for young composers organized in Tokyo...
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Tōru is a masculine Japanese given name. Tōru can be expressed with several kanji. Some examples: 徹, "penetrate" 透, "transparent" 享, "enjoy" 亨, "smoothly"...
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Masaru Sato (1960) Tōru Takemitsu (1961-1962) Toshiro Mayuzumi (1963) Tōru Takemitsu (1964) Toshiro Mayuzumi (1965) Tōru Takemitsu (1966) Seiichrō Uno...
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(Columbia Music Entertainment, 2006) – Japan only release. Dedicated to Tōru Takemitsu The Visitor (Drag City, 2009) – Dedicated to Derek Bailey. All Kinds...
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Masaru Sato (1960) Tōru Takemitsu (1961-1962) Toshiro Mayuzumi (1963) Tōru Takemitsu (1964) Toshiro Mayuzumi (1965) Tōru Takemitsu (1966) Seiichrō Uno...
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Ran (film) (category Films scored by Toru Takemitsu)
strengths of the film soundtrack's composer for Kurosawa's purposes: "Tōru Takemitsu was Japan's preeminent film score composer and Kurosawa secured his...
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Masaru Sato (1960) Tōru Takemitsu (1961-1962) Toshiro Mayuzumi (1963) Tōru Takemitsu (1964) Toshiro Mayuzumi (1965) Tōru Takemitsu (1966) Seiichrō Uno...
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Rózsa Alfred Schnittke Howard Shore Dmitri Shostakovich Alan Silvestri Tōru Takemitsu Dimitri Tiomkin Brian Tyler Ralph Vaughan Williams William Walton Franz...
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November Steps (category Compositions by Tōru Takemitsu)
Novenbā Suteppusu) is a musical composition by the Japanese composer Tōru Takemitsu, for the traditional Japanese musical instruments, shakuhachi and biwa...
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(1955). Hayasaka served as a musical mentor to both Masaru Satō and Tōru Takemitsu. In 1955, Hayasaka died of tuberculosis in Tokyo at the age of 41. He...
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for shakuhachi and biwa by Japanese composer Tōru Takemitsu. It was composed in 1966. Before Takemitsu started to compose Eclipse, he was reticent to...
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commissioned by, or written for, Tertis. William Walton, Bohuslav Martinů, Tōru Takemitsu, Tibor Serly, Alfred Schnittke, and Béla Bartók have written well-known...
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Voice is a 1971 composition for solo flute by Tōru Takemitsu. The piece was composed on April 8, 1971, finished in one day, and it was premiered two months...
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Masaru Sato (1960) Tōru Takemitsu (1961-1962) Toshiro Mayuzumi (1963) Tōru Takemitsu (1964) Toshiro Mayuzumi (1965) Tōru Takemitsu (1966) Seiichrō Uno...
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for one or multiple pianists by Japanese composer Toru Takemitsu. It was finished in 1962. Takemitsu, who was a largely self-taught composer, was a composer...
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complex point of view The film is also remembered for its soundtrack by Tōru Takemitsu. Vicari, Justin (2016-06-05). Japanese Film and the Floating Mind: Cinematic...
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Easy (1962) The Outcast (1962) Alone Across the Pacific (1963), with Toru Takemitsu Portrait of Hell (1969) Mt. Hakkoda (1977) Village of Eight Gravestones...
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described as containing "the charm of impossibilities". The composer Tōru Takemitsu made frequent use of Messiaen's modes, particularly the third mode....
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Woman in the Dunes (category Films scored by Toru Takemitsu)
escape from society. The film's composer, Toru Takemitsu, was praised. Nathaniel Thompson wrote, "[Takemitsu's] often jarring, experimental music here is...
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Masaru Sato (1960) Tōru Takemitsu (1961-1962) Toshiro Mayuzumi (1963) Tōru Takemitsu (1964) Toshiro Mayuzumi (1965) Tōru Takemitsu (1966) Seiichrō Uno...
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Pekka Lehto (BAM) (1986) Benoît Lamy (1987) Astor Piazzolla (1988) Tōru Takemitsu (1989) Michael Haneke (BUMF) (1989) Michael Kamen (1990) Rachid Bouchareb...
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Japanese instruments into their compositions; for example, one composer, Tōru Takemitsu, collaborated with Western composers and compositions to include the...
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Woodward, Roger (2024). "Begegnungen Mit Toru Takemitsu". In Bandur, Markus; Schmusch, Rainer (eds.). Tōru Takemitsu Globalisiertes Komponieren – Text, Kontext...
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Rising Sun (film) (category Films scored by Toru Takemitsu)
Michael Chapman Edited by William S. Scharf Stephen A. Rotter Music by Tōru Takemitsu Distributed by 20th Century Fox Release date July 30, 1993 (1993-07-30)...
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(2001). Tōru Takemitsu : a bio-bibliography. London: Greenwood Press. p. 10. ISBN 9780313272370. LCCN 01023183. After his death, the Tôru Takemitsu Composition...
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ヴァレリア) is a 1965 chamber music composition by Toru Takemitsu, recomposed from an earlier work, Sonant. Takemitsu wrote the piece for the 6th Modern Music Festival...
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Charming 19 Brenda Bruce 76 UK Actress Peeping Tom Splitting Heirs 20 Tōru Takemitsu 65 Japan Composer Harakiri Ran 23 Elisa Cegani 84 Italy Actress Eleonora...
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Toward the Sea (category Compositions by Tōru Takemitsu)
Toward the Sea (海へ, Umi e) is a work by Japanese composer Tōru Takemitsu, commissioned by Greenpeace for the Save the Whales campaign. Towards the Sea...
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