(Tōru Takemitsu (武満 徹, 1930-1996) was a Japanese composer and writer on aesthetics and music theory. Largely self-taught, Takemitsu was admired for the subtle manipulation of instrumental and orchestral timbre. He is known for combining elements of oriental and occidental
philosophy and for fusing sound with silence and tradition with
innovation.
He composed several hundred independent works of music, scored more than ninety films and published twenty books.He was also a founding member of the Jikken Kōbō (Experimental Workshop) in Japan, a group of avant-garde artists who distanced themselves from academia and whose collaborative work is often regarded among the most influential of the 20th century.
His 1957 Requiem for string orchestra attracted
international attention, led to several commissions from across the
world and established his reputation as the leading 20th-century
Japanese composer. He was the recipient of numerous awards and honours and the Toru Takemitsu Composition Award is named after him).
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