Kosaku Yamada
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Kosaku Yamada (山田耕筰 Yamada Kōsaku?), 9 June 1886 - 29 December 1965) was the first Japanese opera composer.
In many western reference books his name is given as Kósçak Yamada, a fanciful transliteration he apparently used in the West. Yamada was born and died in Tokyo.
After studying at the Tokyo Music School, he left Japan for Germany where he enrolled in the Berlin Hochschule and learnt composition, before going to the USA for two years. Returning to Japan after the First World War, he was active as an opera composer and conductor.
He is best known for his 1940 opera Kurofune (The Black Ships) which is revived periodically.
[edit] Operas
- Reisho (1909)
- Ochitaru tennyo (1913)
- Shichinin no oujo (1913-16)
- Ayame (1931)
- Kurofune (The Black Ships) (1940)
- Hsiang Fei (1954)
[edit] Recordings
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