Akio Yashiro
Akio Yashiro | |
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| Born | September 10, 1929 Tokyo, Japan |
| Died | April 9, 1976(aged 46) |
| Other names | Thỉ đại thu hùng |
| Occupation | composer |
| Relatives | Yukio Yashiro(father) |
Akio Yashiro(Thỉ đại thu hùng,Yashiro Akio,September 10, 1929 – April 9, 1976)was a Japanese composer.
Biography
[edit]He was born in Tokyo. Yashiro entered the Tokyo Music School (presently theTokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music) in 1945, where he studied composition underSaburo Moroi,Kunihiko Hashimoto,Tomojirō Ikenouchi,andAkira Ifukube,and piano underNoboru Toyomasu,Leonid Kreutzer,andKiyo Kawakami.Upon finishing graduate courses in 1951, he went to Europe withToshiro MayuzumiandSadao Bekkuto study with a French governmental fellowship atParis Conservatory.There he learned composition and orchestration fromOlivier Messiaen,Tony Oban,andNadia Boulanger.[1]He returned home in 1956.
He received several prizes for his compositions, including the Eighth Mainichi Music Prize in 1957 for String Quartet, which he had written while studying abroad, and Sixteenth Otaka Prize and the Twenty-first National Art Festival Award in 1968 for his Piano Concerto (1964–1967) which was commissioned byNHK.
In 1968, Yashiro was inaugurated as an assistant professor at hisalma mater,and he was promoted to professor in 1974. He died suddenly of heart failure at the age of 46.
List of works
[edit]- 24 Preludes for piano (1945)
- Sonatina for piano (1945)
- Violin Sonata (1946)
- Nocturne for piano (1947)
- Piano Trio (1948)
- Viola Sonata (1949)
- Suite Classique for piano 4-hands (1951)
- String Quartet (1955)
- Symphony (1958)
- Sonata for two flutes and piano (1958)
- Cello Concerto (1960)
- Piano Sonata (1961)
- Piano Concerto(1967)
- Violin Concerto - unfinished
FlutistJean-Pierre RampalandEnsemble Lunairerecorded his transcriptions onJapanese Folk Melodies,CBS Records,(1978).
References
[edit]- ^Slonimsky, Nicolas (1978). "Yashiro, Akio".Baker's Biographical dictionary of musicians(6th ed.). New York: Schirmer Books. p. 1926.ISBN0028702409.
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