Teizo Matsumura

Teizo Matsumura (松 村 祯 三Japanese, Matsumura Teizo; born January 15, 1929 in Kyoto, † 6 August 2007) was a Japanese composer.

Matsumara took private lessons with Tsuneharu Takahashi and Toshio Nagahiro (harmony ). In 1949, he came to Tokyo, where he studied composition with Tomojiro Ikenouchi and Akira Ifukube. In 1950, he contracted tuberculosis and had to undergo several operations until 1955.

During his convalescence, he began to write haikus and won a haiku contest. At the same time Introduction and Allegro Concertante was composed for orchestra, with whom he won the 1955 Composition Prize of the Mainichi Music Competition. Were marked his first compositions by European composers such as Maurice Ravel and Igor Stravinsky, appeared in his Symphony and Prelude for Orchestra influences of traditional music from India, Tibet and Bali.

Influences of traditional Japanese music and painting and Noh theater were evident in his two piano concertos. In 1978 he was commissioned to compose an opera by Endō Shūsakus novel Chimmoku (silence, Eng. Silence ). He worked for thirteen years at the factory. In 1993, the opera was premiered and won several awards. The following year, a retrospective of the works Matsumura took place in New York. In addition to these works Matsumara also composed over 100 film scores, including many films from Kei Kumai and to Kazuo Kuroki. Until his retirement, he was professor of composition at the School of Art Tokyo.

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• Yamagata International Documentary Film Festival - Biography and Interview
• Jeffrey James Art Consulting: " Weaving Japanese Sounds". Music of Modern Japan - Biography
• British Film Institute - life data

• Japanese composer
• Japanese
• Born in 1929
• Died in 2007
• Man