Name Shigeaki Saegusa Role Composer | Parents Yoshio Saegusa Siblings Kenki Saegusa | |
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Awards Japan Academy Prize for Outstanding Achievement in Music Compositions TITANS, TITANS, BLUE ENDLESS WAY, BLUE ENDLESS WAY, AEUG, AEUG, TENSION, TENSION Similar People Shinji Somai, Monday Michiru, Shigemichi Sugita, Yoshiyuki Tomino, Yoji Yamada | ||
[1987] Shigeaki Saegusa - 二十四の瞳 オリジナル サウンドトラック (Twenty-Four Eyes OST) - Full Album
Shigeaki Saegusa (三枝 成彰 (formerly 三枝 成章), Saegusa Shigeaki, born July 8, 1942) is a Japanese composer.
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- 1987 Shigeaki Saegusa Twenty Four Eyes OST Full Album
- Mobile suit gundam char s counterattack swan shigeaki saegusa
- Career
- Opera
- Oratorio
- Orchestral works
- ChamberInstrumental works
- Vocal works
- Film score
- Music for TV programs
- Recordings
- References
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Career
Saegusa is best known for his opera version Chushingura of the well-known kabuki epic of the Forty-seven Ronin/Chūshingura with a libretto by the novelist Shimada Masahiko. Written over a period of 10 years, the opera was most recently performed at the New National Theatre, Tokyo in 2002. His newest opera, Jr. Butterfly is a sequel to Giacomo Puccini's Madama Butterfly.
He has also written the background music for anime, the foremost of which being Mobile Suit Zeta Gundam. Other anime he has written for are Astro Boy (1980), Mobile Suit Gundam ZZ, Mobile Suit Gundam: Char's Counterattack, Catnapped! The Movie, and Mother: Saigo no Shoujo Eve.
Opera
Oratorio
Orchestral works
Chamber/Instrumental works
Vocal works
Film score
Music for TV programs
Recordings
Chushingura was recorded in 1997 and published on compact disc (Sony Classical SK60233).