Toshiro Mayuzumi

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Toshiro Mayuzumi (黛 敏郎 Mayuzumi Toshirō, born Yokohama, 20 February 1929 - died Kawasaki, 10 April 1997) was a Japanese composer.

Mayuzumi was a student at the Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music immediately following the Second World War, before going to Europe where he attended the Paris Conservatoire national supérieur de musique.

He was initially enthusiastic about avant-garde Western music but in the course of the 1950s he gradually became more interested in traditional Japanese music as well as esoteric Buddhism. Like the novelist Mishima Yukio, whose novel The Temple of the Golden Pavilion he set as an opera (Kinkakuji, 1976), Mayuzumi opposed the westernization of Japan and tried to emphasize his native cultural identity in his work.

A prolific composer for the cinema, he composed more than a hundred film scores between Waga ya wa tanoshi (It's Great to Be Young) in 1951 and Jo no mai in 1984. The best-known film with a score by Mayuzumi is probably The Bible: In the Beginning (1966). He also wrote many pieces for wind band that are recorded by the Tokyo Kosei Wind Orchestra.

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[edit] Works

[edit] Opera

  • Kinkakuji (1976)
  • Kojiki (1996)

[edit] Ballet

  • The Kabuki (1986)

[edit] Orchestral works

  • Baccanare (1954)
  • Tonepleromas '55 (1955)
  • Nirvana Symphony for male chorus and orchestra (1958)
  • Mandala[sic] Symphony (1960)
  • Music with Sculpture (1961)
  • Bugaku (1962)
  • Textures for wind orchestra (1962)
  • Samsara (1962)
  • Essay for string orchestra (1963)
  • Fireworks (1963)
  • Concerto for percussion and wind orchestra (1965)
  • Concertino for xylophone and orchestra (1965)

[edit] Ensemble/Instrumental works

  • Sonata for violin and piano (1946)
  • Divertiment for 10 instruments (1948)
  • Pieces for prepared piano and strings (1957)
  • Microcosmos for clavioline, guitar, musical saw, vibraphone, xylophone, percussion and piano (1957)
  • Bunraku for violoncello solo (1960)
  • Prelude for string quartet (1961)
  • Metamusic for piano, violin and saxophone (1961)
  • Showa tempyo raku for gagaku (1970)
  • Rokudan for harp (1989)

[edit] Electoric music

  • X, Y, Z (1953)
  • Music for Sine Wave by Proportion of Prime Number (1955)
  • Music for Modulated Wave by Proportion of Prime Number (1955)
  • Invention for Square Wave and Saw-tooth Wave (1955)
  • Variations on Numerical Principle of 7 (1956; with Makoto Moroi)
  • Campanology for multi-piano (1959)
  • Olympic Campanology (1964)
  • Mandara[sic] for electronic sounds and voices (1969)

[edit] Film score

[edit] External links

“Overtones of Progress, Undertones of Reaction: Toshiro Mayuzumi and the Nirvana Symphony” by Peter Burt http://www.research.umbc.edu/~emrich/Burt.html

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