Shibata, Minao 1916 - 1996
Author: Nakatsuji, Maho
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Author: Nakatsuji, Maho
Author : Sudoh, Eiko
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Born in Tokyo. After graduating from the Department of Botany, Faculty of Science, Tokyo Imperial University, he enrolled in the Department of Art History, Faculty of Letters at the same university. During this period, he studied composition under Saburo Moroi. After graduation, in 1946, he formed "Shinseikai" with Yoshiro Irino and others. From 1948, he started "Children's Music Class" (predecessor of Toho Gakuen School of Music) with Motonari Iguchi and others, and taught there. Meanwhile, he serialized essays on contemporary music, including "Bartók Ron" (On Bartók), in the journal Ongaku Geijutsu. From 1953, he began research on twelve-tone technique with Yoshiro Irino, and in 1957, he founded the "20th Century Music Research Institute." He endeavored to introduce European avant-garde music. After teaching for ten years from 1959 in the Department of Musicology at Tokyo University of the Arts, he began collecting Japanese folk songs himself from 1969 onwards. His compositional style also shifted from a "Western music exercise" approach to a "polystylistic" one, incorporating Japanese folk performing arts. His representative works include Oiwake-bushi Kō (1973) and a series of theater pieces (choral dramas). He passed away in 1996. He was recognized as a Person of Cultural Merit.
Author : Nakatsuji, Maho
Last Updated: April 20, 2018
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Author : Nakatsuji, Maho
Works(8)
Piano Solo (5)
character pieces (2)