Hiroaki Zakōji

Hiroaki Zakōji (Japanese座 光寺 公 明, Zakōji Hiroaki; born January 20, 1958 in the prefecture of Tokyo, † January 29, 1987 ) was a Japanese composer and pianist.

Life

Zakōji grew up in Hokkaido and studied composition under the tray Masanobu Kimura when he was high school course attendees there. He attended the Art Institute of Nihon University in Tokyo, where he studied composition under Kiyohiko Kijima, and piano under Midori Matsuya. He also learned composition with raw Ogura in Kamakura.

In 1982 he organized the music ensemble "Tokyo Shin- Wagaku Consort ", which played its own contemporary music and works by other young composers regularly. In 1985 he was presented in concert by the ISCM International Society for Contemporary Music in Basel. In April 1986 he returned to Basel, where his "piece III " for piano, Op. 36 was performed. He also traveled to Spain and Denmark and wrote an acclaimed essay for a music journal. His pieces Composition II ( Op. 11) and Composition III ( Op. 13) were sent by a Spanish radio station. In June 1986 he was a finalist in the Buddhist International Music Competition in Tokyo and his Op. 18, " Continuum ", was presented as a premiere by the Tokyo Symphony Orchestra. A few days after his 29th birthday, he died due to sudden cardiac arrest on January 29, 1987 in Tokyo.

In his short life of only 29 years Zakōji left 38 works.

The English composer James Stevens wrote:

"His work was unique because, despite its substantially contemporary style, not a particular mode or manner owed ​​and she was therefore outside the mainstream of contemporary composers. His material was the product of an exquisite inner ear and it was with, Mozartian ' treatment integrity. It was also traditional Japanese concepts dar. Hiroaki was able to compose in the same way for Strings, synthesizers, symphony orchestra and traditional instruments. "

Cello Chamber Concerto ( for cello and orchestra), Op. 29a, was performed at a concert Orient Occident at the Teatre Lliure in Barcelona, ​​along with a work by Tōru Takemitsu and a work of Yun I- sang, in April and Mail in 1992.

In January 2008, some were of Hiroakis earlier works ( Scherzo, Andante1, Adagio Movement) digitized and recorded by the Spanish composer Llibert López Pascual. Scherzo was sent in February 2008 by the Italian radio station Radio Uno Fermo.

Character

Since Hiroaki in Hokkaido, in the northern part of Japan, grew up, where the climate is cold and hard, he seems to have acquired a tenacious and patient character. He loved nature and the snow. He loved to ski. He worked very hard and was a special person, as well as his talent was special, and he was very warm and loving.

Contradiction was his character. He was tough, but at the same time sensitive and delicate. He was both an introvert as well as extrovert. On the one hand he had a very contemplative nature, which is reflected in many of his works. He became interested in Buddhism and also the subject of " death ", which was rather unusual for a young man of his age. On the other hand, he was a very athletic man who loved to ski. He held the highest degree of SAJ ( Ski Association of Japan ) and worked as a ski instructor in the winter in the mountain resort Utsukushi - Gahara in Nagano. He was a joyful young man who joked like. Through his sense of humor and his unique character, he won many friends.

He was very progressive in his thinking. He was only in his twenties, but conversed with much older composer almost as an equal. He was very mature and at the same time he was pure and innocent as a child. He was international, interested in travel and performances abroad, but he was patriotic and a nationalist who loved his country and its inhabitants. His interest in ancient Japanese mythology and history, Kojiki and Nihon Shoki, prompted him to write the work " Ame no Uzume " (op. 4). He was also interested in traditional Japanese music, Gagaku, and wrote the treatises " Traditional Japanese Instruments" and " study of traditional Japanese music and its transformation in my work ."

His favorite color was black, his favorite city Kamakura, and his favorite novelist Ryunosuke Akutagawa was. He left at his death, namely a notebook in which he " The Spider's Thread", composed his last work, the opera. He, incidentally, was very tidy and well organized. When he died, it was found that all his scores were in clean condition, as if he had foreseen his sudden death.

He had love and compassion for his fellow man and won by his humor and his unique character of many friends. Nearly 300 people paid their respects to him at his funeral. He was a huge phenomenon. His sudden death was a tragedy unparalleled; many people mourning and weeping over the loss of this young, rare talent at just the time when it reached its peak.

Works

Pieces for Orchestra

  • Sinfonietta for Strings, Op. 3 (1979)
  • " Conversion " ( for orchestra), Op. 7 (1980)
  • " Meta polyphony " ( for orchestra), Op. 10 (1981 )
  • " Caught in Time" ( for orchestra), Op. 32 (1982)
  • "Continuum " for orchestra - ( Original title: " Time-Space Continuum " )

( Premiere: Int competition for Buddhist music in Tokyo in 1986. )

Concerts

  • Piano Concerto, Op. 21 (1983)
  • Cello Chamber Concerto ( for cello and orchestra), Op. 29 (1985)
  • Cello Concerto, Op. 29b (1985)

Chamber Music

  • Sonata for Flute and Piano, Op. 2 (1979)
  • " Ame no Uzume " ( for soprano, piano, percussion and wind instruments 7 ), Op. 4 (1980)
  • Chamber Symphony, Op. 5 (1980)
  • Composition I " silence of holding " n (for flute, violin, piano), Op. 8 (1981)
  • String Quartet (unfinished), Op. 9 (1981)
  • String Quartet, Op. 12a (1981 )
  • Prelude and Fugue for String Quartet, Op. 12 b ( 1981)
  • Composition III " Ke " ( for shakuhachi and koto ), Op. 13 (1981)
  • "Time to Time " for two marimbas, Op. 17 (1982)
  • Prelude for Strings, Op. 20 (1982)
  • Piano Trio ( for piano, flute, violin), Op. 23 (1983)
  • Quintet (for flute, clarinet, violin, cello, piano), Op. 24 (1983)
  • Composition V (for flute and harp), Op. 26 (1983)
  • Monody (for flute and piano), Op. 31 (1985)
  • Suite for traditional instruments ( for Traverso, Va.da.Gamba and harpsichord), Op. 34 (1986)
  • Composition VI ( for shakuhachi, koto, piano), Op. 37 (1986)
  • Morphology (for 2 Pianos), Op.38 (1986 )

Solo pieces

  • Composition II " Myou " ( for solo flute), Op. 11 (1981)
  • Composition IV "Holy Dance " ( for percussion ), Op. 14 (1982)
  • Variations for Solo Cello, Op. 16 (1982)
  • Mono morphology I " Fujyu " (for flute and shakuhachi ), Op. 22 (1983)
  • Mono morphology II (for Guitar), Op. 27 (1983)
  • Piano Pieces I, Op. 28 (1985)
  • Piano Piece II, Op. 30 (1985)
  • " Aya " ( for solo koto ), Op. 35 (1986)
  • Mono- III morphology ( for solo oboe), Op. 33 (1986)
  • Piano Piece III, Op. 36 (1986 )

Gesangsatücke

  • Three songs set to poems by Chuya Nakahara ( for soprano and piano), Op. 1 (1978)
  • "Death and smile " ( for baritone and piano), Op. 6 (1980)
  • Two songs sung by Prince Karu, ( Ten, Pf ), Op. 15 (1982)
  • "From the abyss of death " ( for Voice and Piano), Op.19 (1982 )

Choral pieces

  • " Funeral " ( for chorus and orchestra ), Op.25 (1983 )
  • Invention ( 1985)
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