• 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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    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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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    (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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    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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    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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  • percussionists and orchestra by the Japanese composer Tōru Takemitsu. It is considered one of the best of Takemitsu's late works. From me flows what you call Time...
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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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  • 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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    Netherlands, she has performed works by contemporary composers, including Tōru Takemitsu, Michaël Levinas, Régis Campo and Bushra El-Turk. Abe was born in Osaka...
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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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    section of the ISCM). In 1948, Kiyose took on Hiroyoshi Suzuki and Tōru Takemitsu for a brief period as pupils in composition. His music at times incorporates...
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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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    normalized in contemporary music, with ample examples by George Crumb, Toru Takemitsu, Helmut Lachenmann, and others) as one of the variety of techniques...
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