RentarÅ Taki
Rentaro Taki (Japanese泷 廉 太郎Taki Rentaro, born August 24, 1879 in Tokyo, † June 29, 1903 in Oita ) was a Japanese composer.
Life
After his graduation from the Tokyo Music School (now the Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music) in 1901, where he was a pupil of August Junkers, he went to the Leipzig Conservatory to continue his studies (composition with Salomon Jadassohn, piano with Robert Teichmüller ) continue, but fell seriously ill with tuberculosis and had to return to Japan. There he died shortly afterwards at the age of 23 years.
In Taketa on Kyushu, where Taki spent his school years, a museum ( Taki Rentaro Kinenkan ) and a monument is ( a replica of the Leipzig memorial plaque).
Statue in Oita
In Leipzig eV was his 100th anniversary in 2003 by the International Mendelssohn Foundation in the vicinity of his former apartment building ( no longer available) set up a Rentaro Taki - monument in the Ferdinand- Rhode road. It was designed by Ulf Puder, who had won a to ausgelobten Wedttbewerb.
Taki wrote mainly piano music and songs. The scoring his best-known compositions song Kojo no Tsuki (荒城の月- " The moon over the ruined castle ") was also taken up by musicians such as Thelonious Monk and the Scorpions. In Japan, he is known for his many songs as a "Japanese Schubert ".
Compositions for Piano ( selection)
- Minuet in B minor
- Urami (憾- " Unfortunate " ) in D Minor
Vocal Music (Selection)
- Hakone hachiri (箱根 八里- "Eight miles through Hakone " )
- Hana (花- "Cherry Blossoms " )
- Kojo no tsuki (荒城の月- " The moon over the ruined castle " )
- O shōgatsu (お正月- "New Year" )
- Mizu asobi (水遊び- " splashing " )