Toshiro Mayuzumi
Toshirō Mayuzumi (Japanese黛 敏 郎, Mayuzumi Toshirō; born February 20, 1929 in Yokohama, Japan, † April 10, 1997 in Kawasaki, Japan ) was a Japanese composer.
Life and work
Mayuzumi, born in 1929 in Yokohama, completed his studies from 1945 to 1951 at the Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music in Tomojiro Ikenouchi ( 1906-1991 ) and Akira Ifukube ( 1914-2006 ). In 1951 he graduated. Even as a student, he described himself as an experimental and adventure -seeking composers. Sometimes he composed in the traditional style of the late Romantics, sometimes he experimented with jazz rhythms and another time he tried his hand in the implementation of Indian and Balinese music. With the work in this idiom Sphenogrammes years brought him to international reputation when it was performed during the ISCM Festival in 1951.
In the same year (1951 ) he went to Paris and then continued his studies at the Conservatoire Superieur de Paris by Tony Aubin. He also made in Paris familiar with the new musical developments in the works of Olivier Messiaen and Pierre Boulez as well as the musique concrète. 1953 returned to Tokyo, he founded together with Ikuma Dan Yasushi Akutagawa and the Sannin no Kai ( "Group of Three ").
He constantly experimented with new ideas and techniques in his own works. Its X, Y, Z 1955 was the first Japanese example of musique concrète and his Shusaku I also in 1955, the first synthetic electronic music. He also worked with prepared pianos, twelve-tone technique, serial and aleatoric methods. Even with new creations and - in certain ensembles - the more unusual instruments such as Claviolin, electric guitar and other instruments and even with the instrumental compositions he experimented.
In 1958 he entered with Nehan kokyokyoku - "Nirvana Symphony " musical territory. Obsessed with the sound of the Buddhist temple bells, he analyzed the sonorous tones acoustically and tried a broad Reproduction in terms of sound quality, the volume and the use of space impressions in his work. The result was winning the Otaka Prize in held annually Composition Competition in 1959.
He was, inter alia, also in the electronic studio of the Japanese broadcasting operates. In Japan, he strove with the group Ars Nova Japonica to the spread of new music.
Works
Works for Orchestra
Works for wind
Choral music
- Sange for male choir