Toshi Ichiyanagi

Toshi Ichiyanagi (Jap.一 柳 慧, Ichiyanagi Toshio, born February 4, 1933, Kobe ) is a Japanese composer.

Ichyanagi was a student of Tomojiro Ikenouchi and Kishio Hirao. From 1952 to 1961 he lived in the United States. Here he attended the Juilliard School of Music and the New School for Social Research in New York City and studied composition with John Cage. Cage dedicated to him and Yoko Ono, with whom he was married from 1956 to 1963, the piece 0 '00 ". 1961 he returned to Japan. During the 1980s and 1990s, he worked at the National Theatre. He is artistic director of the Kanagawa Arts Foundation.

In addition to works for electronic musical instruments, he composed six symphonies, a violin and three piano concertos, two operas, chamber music and piano pieces. He often combine elements of classic Japanese and Western musical instruments.

Works (selection)

  • Music for Electric Metronomes
  • Duet for Piano and String Orchestra
  • Stanzas for Strings
  • Piece for fifteen players
  • Music for tape, orchestra and electronic sound breaker
  • Piece for three instruments, two oscillators and two ring modulators
  • Reminiscence of Spaces, Piano Concerto, 1981
  • Circulating Scenery, Violin Concerto, 1983
  • Winter portrait, Concerto for Piano, 1987
  • Berlin Renshi, Symphony, 1988
  • The shadows Appearing, Symphony
  • Momo, opera by Michael Ende, 1995
  • Coexistence, 1996
  • Time Perspective, Symphony No. 5, 1997
  • Mirage for shakuhachi and piano, 1998
  • A hundred years from now, Symphony No. 6, 2001
  • Hikari, opera, 2003
  • Composer of classical music ( 20th century)
  • Japanese composer
  • Japanese
  • Born in 1933
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