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Name
  
Teizo Matsumura


Role
  
Composer

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Died
  
August 6, 2007, Minato, Tokyo City, Tokyo, Japan

Nominations
  
Japan Academy Prize for Outstanding Achievement in Music

Music director
  
Silence Has No Wings, Deep River, The Long Darkness, Death of a Tea Master, My Sons

Similar People
  
Kazuo Kuroki, Akio Yashiro, Kei Kumai, Takeo Kimura, Yoji Yamada

Poem II for Shakuhachi Solo (1972)


Teizo Matsumura (松村禎三 Matsumura Teizō, born Kyoto, 15 January 1929 - 6 August 2007) was a Japanese composer and poet.

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Orphaned and suffering from tuberculosis, during his recovery in the early 1950s he began to write both haiku and music. He studied with Tomojiro Ikenouchi. He was influenced by Ravel and Stravinsky, but also Asian traditions. He was Professor Emeritus of the Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music.

Matsumura is best known for his opera Chinmoku (in English Silence) based on the novel of the same name by Shusaku Endo. This has been recorded.

Matsumura is the recipient of the 1974 UNESCO International Rostrum of Composers and of the 1978 Suntory Music Award.

Teizo matsumura symphony no 1 yuasa rte national symphony orchestra


Major works

  • Achime for soprano, percussion and 11 players (1957)
  • Cryptogame for instrumental ensemble (1958)
  • Musique pour quatuor à cordes et pianoforte (1962)
  • Symphony No. 1 (1965)
  • Prélude pour orchestre (1968)
  • Aprasas for female chorus with 2 harps, piano, harpsichord, celesta and string orchestra (1969)
  • Totem Ritual for mixed chorus with 8 percussions, piano, harpsichord and orchestra (1969)
  • Deux berceuses à la Grèce for piano (1969)
  • Poème I for shakuhachi and koto (1969)
  • Courtyard of Apsaras for flute, violin and piano (1971)
  • Poème II for shakuhachi solo (1972)
  • Two Poems by the Prince of Karu for soprano and piano (1973)
  • Piano Concerto No. 1 (1973)
  • Piano Concerto No. 2 (1978)
  • Hymn to Aurora for mixed chorus with cello, harp, percussion, piano, organ and oboe d'amore (1978)
  • Fantasy for thirteen-string koto solo (1980)
  • Cello Concerto (Concerto per violoncello ed orchestra) (1984)
  • Air of Prayer for seventeen-string koto solo (1984)
  • Air of Prayer for cello solo (1985)
  • Pneuma for strings (1986)
  • Trio pour violon, violoncelle et piano (1986)
  • Homage to Akira Ifukube for orchestra (1988)
  • Opera "Silence" (1993)
  • Nocturne for harp solo (1994)
  • Quatuor à cordes (1996)
  • Poor Faithful for voice and piano (1996)
  • Symphony No. 2 (1998)
  • Pilgrimage I - III for piano (1999-2000)
  • To the Night of Gethsemane for orchestra (2002)

    • Film score

  • 100 Gamblers (1969)
  • Apart from Life (1970)
  • Sea and Poison (1985)
  • Sen no Rikyu - (The Dead of a Tea Master) (1989)
  • Pickpocket (2000)
  • Darkness in the Light (2001)
  • A Boy's Summer in 1945 (2002)
  • The Face of Jizo (2004)

    • References

    Teizo Matsumura Wikipedia
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