• Tōru Takemitsu (武満 徹, pronounced [takeꜜmitsɯ̥ toːɾɯ]; 8 October 1930 – 20 February 1996) was a Japanese composer and writer on aesthetics and music theory...
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  • of compositions by Tōru Takemitsu. The works are categorized by genre, date of composition, titles and scoring. Scores by Takemitsu are published by Ongaku...
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    (Columbia Music Entertainment, 2006) – Japan only release. Dedicated to Tōru Takemitsu The Visitor (Drag City, 2009) – Dedicated to Derek Bailey. All Kinds...
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  • Voice is a 1971 composition for solo flute by Tōru Takemitsu. The piece was composed on April 8, 1971, finished in one day, and it was premiered two months...
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  • Ran (film) (category Films scored by Toru Takemitsu)
    strengths of the film soundtrack's composer for Kurosawa's purposes: "Tōru Takemitsu was Japan's preeminent film score composer and Kurosawa secured his...
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    (1955). Hayasaka served as a musical mentor to both Masaru Satō and Tōru Takemitsu. In 1955, Hayasaka died of tuberculosis in Tokyo at the age of 41. He...
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  • for shakuhachi and biwa by Japanese composer Tōru Takemitsu. It was composed in 1966. Before Takemitsu started to compose Eclipse, he was reticent to...
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  • Rózsa Alfred Schnittke Howard Shore Dmitri Shostakovich Alan Silvestri Tōru Takemitsu Dimitri Tiomkin Brian Tyler Ralph Vaughan Williams William Walton Franz...
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  • The Toru Takemitsu Composition Award (武満徹作曲賞, Takemitsu Tōru sakkyoku-shō) is a prestigious international music competition for young composers organized...
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  • November Steps (category Compositions by Tōru Takemitsu)
    Novenbā Suteppusu) is a musical composition by the Japanese composer Tōru Takemitsu, for the traditional Japanese musical instruments, shakuhachi and biwa...
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