MUSIC FROM JAPAN COMPOSER PROFILE
Mr. Toru Takemitsu
Birthplace: Tokyo, Japan
Award: First Prize
Contemporary Music Compet
Year: 1958
Award: Best Music Prize
Mainichi Motion Picture
Year: 1962
Award: Prize for Excellence
UNESCO/IMC I.R.C.
Year: 1965
Award: Grand Prize
Japan Art Festival
Year: 1975
Award: Otaka Prize
"Quatrain"
Year: 1976
Award: Otaka Prize
"Far Calls. Coming, far!"
Year: 1981
Award: Asahi Prize
Year: 1985
Award: Ordre des Arts et Lettres
French Government
Year: 1985
Award: Kyoto Music Grand Prize
Year: 1988
Award: Suntory Music Prize
Year: 1991
Studies: Self-taught
Studied with
Article/Review: R
Publication: NYT
Date Pub.: 12/22/86
Reaction (Positive/Negative/neUtral: U
Article/Review: R
Publication: The New York Times
Author: Allan Kozinn
Date Pub.: 2/11/97
Reaction (Positive/Negative/neUtral: P
Synopsis: "He was not reaching out, but reaching in. His idiosyncratic
sound world was a realm in which passions and philosophies
mingled..."
Article/Review: R
Publication: NYT, Cleve, NYCT
Date Pub.: 2/16/85
Reaction (Positive/Negative/neUtral: U
Article/Review: A
Publication: New York Times
Author: Allan Kozinn
Date Pub.: 2/21/96
Reaction (Positive/Negative/neUtral: P
Synopsis: Toru Takemitsu, 65, Introspective Composer Whose Music Evokes
East and West, Is Dead
Article/Review: R
Publication: NYT
Date Pub.: 2/27/89
Reaction (Positive/Negative/neUtral: U
Article/Review: A
Publication: New York Times
Author: Paula Deitz
Date Pub.: 3/3/96
Reaction (Positive/Negative/neUtral: P
Synopsis: Retrospective on the composer's work and philosophy.
Article/Review: R
Publication: NYT
Date Pub.: 4/28/80
Reaction (Positive/Negative/neUtral: U
Compositions on file:
10th Step (Variation) from November Steps,1967
12 Songs for Guitar,1977
A Bird came down the Walk,1994
A Flock Descends into the Pentagonal Garden,1977
A Minneapolis Garden,1986
A Song of Circle's and Triangles,1960
A String Around Autumn,1989
A Way a Lone,1981
A Way a Lone II,1981
Air,1995
All in Twilight,1987
All that the Man Left Behind When He Died,1960
And then I knew 'twas Wind,1992
Arc for Strings,1963
Arc part I,1963
Arc part II,1964
Archipelago S.,1993
Asterism,1967
Autumn,1973
Autumn (Excerpt),1973
Bad Boy,1961
Between Tides,1993
Breeze (Piano Pieces for Children),1979
Bryce,1976
Cassiopeia,1971
Ceremonial,1992
Cherry Blossoms (arr.),0
Clouds (Piano Pieces for Children),1979
Coral Island,1962
Corona II,1962
Corona for pianist,1962
Cross Talk,1968
Crossing,1970
Day Signal (Signals from Heaven I),1987
Distance,1972
Distance de Fee,1951
Dream/Window,1985
Dreamtime,1981
Eclipse,1966
Entre-temps,1986
Equinox,1993
Eucalips I,1970
Eucalips II,1970
FOR AWAY,1973
Family Tree - Musical Verses for Young People,1992
Fantasma/Cantos,1991
Fantasma/Cantos II,1994
Far Calls. Coming, far!,1980
Folios,1974
For Away,1973
From far beyond Chrysanthemums & November fog,1983
From me flows what you call Time,1990
Garden Rain,1974
Gemeaux,1986
Gitmalya,1974
Grass,1982
Green,1967
Handmade Proverbs,1987
Herbstlied,1993
Hika,1966
How slow the Wind,1991
I Hear the Water Dreaming,1987
I just Sing,0
In a Small Room,0
In an Autumn Garden for Gagaku,1973
In an Autumn Garden, complete version,1979
In the Woods,1995
Itinerant,1989
Ki no Kyoku,1961
Kwaidan,1964
LES YEUS CLOSE II,1999
LES YEUX CLOS,1979
LITANY FOR PIANO,1950
Landscape,1960
Le Son-Calligraphie No. I & III,1958
Lento in Due Movimenti,0
Les Fils des Etoiles,1975
Les yeux clos,1979
Les yeux clos II,1988
Litany,1950
Marginalia,1976
Masque for two flutes,1959
Munari by Munari,1967
Munari by Munari,1971
Music of Trees,1961
My Way of Life,1990
Night Signal (Signals from Heaven II),1987
Nostalghia,1987
November Steps,1967
November Steps #10,1967
Orion,1984
Orion and Pleiades,1984
PAUSE ININTERROPMPUSE,1952
PIANO DISTANCE,1961
Paths,1994
Pause Ininterrompue,1952
Pause Uninterrupted for piano,1950
Piano Distance,1961
Quatrain,1975
Quatrain II,1976
Quotation of a Dream,1991
RAIN TREE SKETCH,1982
RAIN TREE SKETCH II,1992
Rain Coming,1982
Rain Dreaming,1986
Rain Spell,1982
Rain Tree,1981
Rain Tree Sketch,1982
Rain Tree Sketch II,1992
Requiem for Strings,1957
Ring,1961
Rocking Mirror Daybreak,1983
Sacrifice,1962
Sayounara,0
Scene,1959
Seasons,1970
Sky, Horse and Death,1958
Small Sky,0
Solitude Sonore,1958
Songs,1992
Spectral Canticle,1995
Spirit Garden,1994
Stanza I,1969
Stanza II,1971
Star-Isle,1982
Static Relief,1955
Tableau Noir,1958
The Dorian Horizon,1966
The Game of Love,0
The Legacy for the Future,0
The Sea is Still,1986
Three Film Scores,1994
To the Edge of Dream,1983
To the Island,0
Toward,1970
Toward the Sea,1981
Toward the Sea II,1981
Toward the Sea III,1989
Tree Line,1988
Twill by Twilight,1988
Uninterrupted Rest I for Piano,1952
Uninterrupted Rests I, II, III,1952
Unseen Child,0
Valeria,1965
Vers, l'arc-en-ciel, Palma,1984
Violin Concerto,1981
Visions,1990
Vocalism A. I,1956
Voice for solo flutist,1971
Voyage,1973
Water Music,1960
Waterways,1978
Waves,1976
Will Tomorrow, I wonder, be Cloudy or Clear?,0
Wind Horse,1966
Wings,1982
Winter,1971
riverrun,1984
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