• 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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  • Universal Edition. Toru Takemitsu: Complete Works Complete Takemitsu Edition (in Japanese) Tôru Takemitsu at IMDb "Toru Takemitsu". Schott Music. 8 October...
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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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  • 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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    (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)
    distinctive film score, inspired by Gustav Mahler, was composed by Toru Takemitsu. Hidetora Ichimonji, a powerful but elderly warlord, decides to divide...
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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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  • 1960–1983), Japanese racing driver Toru Takasuka (高須賀 宣, born 1966), Japanese software entrepreneur Tōru Takemitsu (武満 徹, 1930–1996), Japanese composer...
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  • A String Around Autumn (category Compositions by Tōru Takemitsu)
    Concerto, is a concerto for viola and orchestra by Japanese composer Toru Takemitsu. It was finished in 1989. The composition was commissioned by the Festival...
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  • 1946, composers Toru Takemitsu and Minao Shibata independently explored possible uses for electronic technology to produce music. Takemitsu had ideas similar...
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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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  • 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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    Concerto for Oboe and Small Orchestra (1952) Toru Takemitsu, Distance for Oboe and Shō [ad lib.] (1971) Toru Takemitsu, Entre-Temps for Oboe and String Quartett...
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  • Memoriam: Takemitsu: Guitar Works, his interpretation of works by the Japanese composer Toru Takemitsu. Shin-ichi Fukuda Official Website Toru Takemitsu Sergio...
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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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    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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    considerable repertoire of 20th-century compositions and performed Tōru Takemitsu's Uninterrupted Rests to the composer, who dedicated the work to him...
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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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  • modernism. Those no longer living include Pierre Boulez, Pauline Oliveros, Toru Takemitsu, Jacob Druckman, George Perle, Ralph Shapey, Franco Donatoni, Jonathan...
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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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    several of Japan's outstanding composers of his generation including Toru Takemitsu. There are four themes which can be associated with Kurosawa's filmmaking...
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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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    György Kurtag, Coleridge-Taylor Perkinson, Daniel Bernard Roumain, Toru Takemitsu and Bernd Alois Zimmermann. Augustin Hadelich is the winner of a 2021...
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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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  • adaptation by the filmmaker Masahiro Shinoda, including a score by Toru Takemitsu. In the preface for Donald Keene's book Bunraku, writer Jun'ichirō Tanizaki...
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  • musician Toru Takemitsu. The film won the NHK New Director's award, and throughout the 1960s, he continued to collaborate on films with Abe and Takemitsu while...
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