Yoritsune Matsudaira

Matsudaira Yoritsune (Japanese松 平 頼 则; born May 5, 1907 in Koishikawa, city of Tokyo (now Bunkyō, Tokyo ); † October 30, 2001 Tokyo ) was a Japanese composer.

Life

Matsudaira is the eldest son of former Vice- Count ( Shishaku ) Matsudaira Yorinari and grandson of the princes ( daimyo ) Matsudaira Yorifumi. He studied with Alexander Tcherepnin and composition with Henri Gil- Marchex Emile piano. His compositions were rapidly in Europe appeal, Herbert von Karajan conducted in 1952 his Thème et variations in Vienna, Pierre Boulez conducted his 1958 Figures sonorous in Paris. At the Festival of the International Society for Contemporary Music ( ISCM ) in 1954 he was awarded a first prize for Metamorphoses d' apres Saibara, 1962, he received the International Composers Competition in Rome the first prize for the work Bugaku.

Matsudaira belonged in 1930 to the founding members of Shinko Sakkyokuka Renmei (新兴 作曲家 连 盟, dt "Union of Composers of new trend "). Since 1953 he was secretary from 1956 to 1960 president of the Japanese section of the ISCM.

Matsudaira composed an opera ( Genji Monogatari, The Tale of Genji, 1990-93 ), concerts, serenades, choral works and songs. He used partly European, partly traditional Japanese instruments. He became the Bunka Kōrōsha, the person with special cultural merits, appointed in 1996.

His son Yoriaki ( born 1931 ) was known as a composer.