Kiyoshige Koyama

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Kiyoshige Koyama

Biography

Kiyoshige Koyama (15 January 1914, Nagano, Japan – 6 June 2009) was a Japanese composer.

His composition teachers included Kornei Abe, a student of composer/conductor Klaus Pringsheim, and Tomojiro Ikenouchi.

Koyama didn't turn to compose music until he was almost 30, and although he was strongly nationalistic and influenced by such figures as his contemporary Akira Ifukube, whose work was strongly based on traditional Japanese folk music, Koyama's musical voice didn't emerge until after Japan's imperialist period was over.

Known in the postwar era for such works as Shinano-bayashi for Orchestra (1946), Koyama went on to become one of the leading musical figures of his generation, composing one opera, Sanshyo-Dayu, and numerous orchestral works, including the symphonic suite Nomen (Masque of Noh Play) during the 1950s, Hinauta No. 1 for Orchestra and Hinauta No. 2 for Orchestra in the 1970s, as well as pieces for solo piano and chamber ensemble.


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