Takashi Yoshimatsu

Takashi Yoshimatsu (Japanese吉松 隆, Takashi Yoshimatsu, born March 18, 1953 in Tokyo ) is a Japanese composer of contemporary classical music.

Life

Takashi Yoshimatsu is considered one of the greatest composers of classical music in Japan in the western style. He left the technical department of Keio University in 1972 and joined an amateur band called NOA as a keyboard player at that mimicked the music of Pink Floyd. The same time he began to have for jazz and progressive rock to be interested.

He was a fan of the Walker Brothers and the Ventures when he was 13 years when, at age 14 he was fascinated by symphonies of Beethoven and Tchaikovsky. Since that time, he composed a number of pieces before it was known in 1981 with the held in serialistischem style piece " Threnody to Toki " to a wider audience. Shortly thereafter, he turned away from atonal music and started in a free neuromantischem style with strong influences of jazz, rock and classical Japanese music composing. He underlined his reputation with the Guitar Concerto, composed in 1985. Yoshimatsu has since written five symphonies, six concertos ( one each for bassoon, piano, cello, guitar, trombone, and saxophone ), some sonatas and several shorter pieces for ensembles in various occupations. His ' Atom Hearts Club suites ' for string orchestra are explicitly a tribute to the Beatles, Pink Floyd and Emerson, Lake and Palmer.

Yoshimatsu has published a number of essays and an introduction to classical music. He draws and illustrates his books like itself

Major works

Orchestral works

  • Threnody to Toki for Piano and String Orchestra ( 1980)
  • Chikap (1982)
  • Guitars Classical " Pegasus Effect" (1984 )
  • The Age of Birds ( 1986)
  • Bassoon Concerto " Unicorn Circuit" (1988 )
  • Kamui Chikap Symphony (1990 )
  • White Landscapes (1991 /97)
  • Trombone Concerto " Orion Machine" (1993 )
  • Saxophone Concerto "Cyber ​​Bird" (1993 )
  • Dream Colored Mobile II (1993 /98)
  • Ode to Birds and Rainbow ( 1994)
  • Piano Concerto "Memo Flora" (1997)
  • Atom Hearts Club Suite I for String Orchestra ( 1997)
  • And Birds Are Still ... (1997)
  • While an Angel Falls into a Doze ... for piano and string ensemble ( 1998)
  • Symphony No. 3 (1998)
  • Atom Hearts Club Suite II for String Orchestra
  • Symphony No. 4 (2000)
  • Prelude to the Celebration of Birds ( 2000)
  • Symphony No. 5 (2001)
  • Cello Concerto " Centaurus Unit" (2003)
  • Saxophone Concerto " Albireo mode" (2005)

Chamber Music

  • Forgetful Angel I for harmonica / violin and piano (1978 )
  • Forgetful Angel II for harmonica and guitar (1979 )
  • U- Getsu - Fu for Shakuhachi and 17 conditions ( 1980)
  • Chikap for 15 flutes (1981 )
  • Digital Bird Suite for flute and guitar / piano (1982 )
  • Rainbow Colored Prism I for 2 Pianos, 2 Cellos and Horn ( 1983)
  • 4 Pieces in Bird Shape for clarinet and piano (1983 )
  • Random Bird Variations for two pianos (1985 )
  • Forgetful Angel III for harmonica and accordion (1985 )
  • Soh - Gyo - Fu for Shakuhachi and 20 conditions ( 1986)
  • Pleiades Dances IIa for violin / flute and piano (1987 )
  • Melting Dream for violin / saxophone / harmonica and piano (1987 )
  • Sui - Gen - Fu for Shakuhachi and 13 conditions ( 1989)
  • Fuzzy Bird Sonata for Saxophone and Piano ( 1991)
  • Bird prism for 2 flutes and piano (1991 )
  • Bird Rhythm Percussion (1991 )
  • 3 White Landscapes for flute, bassoon / cello and harp (1991 )
  • Rainbow Colored Mobile for Mandolin Orchestra ( 1992)
  • Dream Colored Mobile for sax / oboe / cello, harp and string quartet ( 1993)
  • Mimic Bird Comic for horn and percussion (1995 )
  • Bird Dream Dance for Gagaku Ensemble ( 1997)
  • Atom Hearts Club Quartet for string quartet (1997)
  • Within Dreams Without Dreams for 2 gene, clarinet, violin and cello (1998)
  • Atom Hearts Club Duo for two guitars (1999)
  • Metal Snail Suite for Euphonium and Piano ( 1999)
  • Stellar Dream Dances for a Japanese instruments ensemble ( 2002)
  • 3 Exotic Songs for Soprano Saxophone and Guitar ( 2002)
  • Partita a la Chesire Cat for piano and percussion (2005)
  • Be Gen Fu for Sho and 20 conditions ( 2006)
  • Wind Dream Dances for Shakuhachi and 20 conditions ( 2006)

Piano solo

  • Regulus Circuit (1979 )
  • Pleiades Dances I ( 1986)
  • Pleiades Dances II ( 1987)
  • Pleiades Dances III (1988 )
  • Pleiades Dances IV (1992 )
  • Pleiades Dances V ( 1992)
  • Piano Folio (1997)
  • Pleiades Dances VI (1998)
  • Pleiades Dances VII (1999)
  • Pleiades Dances VIII ( 2000)
  • Pleiades Dances IX ( 2001)
  • Tapiola Visions for Piano - Left Hand (2004)
  • Ainola Lyrical Ballads for Piano - Left Hand (2006)
  • Gauche Dances for Piano - Left Hand (2006)

Guitar solo

  • Litmus Distance (1980 )
  • Tender Toys ( 1983)
  • Wind Color Vector ( 1991)
  • Guitar Sonata "Sky Color Tensor " (1992)
  • Water Color Scalar (1993 )
  • 2 Little Pieces ( 1994)
  • Around the Round Ground ( 1997)
  • 4 Little Dream Songs ( 1997)

Japanese Instruments Solo

  • Moyura for 20 conditions ( 1990)
  • Nabari for 17 conditions ( 1992)
  • Subaru for 20 conditions ( 1999)
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