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Toru Takemitsu
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Toru Takemitsu is among the most important of those Japanese composers who have written music in the Western tradition, while preserving a fundamental Japanese identity, bringing his awareness of Japanese music and its traditions into a remarkable and very original synthesis. He makes use of Western or Japanese instruments, either separately or together, creating his own very individual sound.
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Takemitsu's Requiem for strings made a strong impression on audiences who heard it in 1957. November Steps and Aki (Autumn) were scored for biwa, shakuhachi and orchestra. Takemitsu won international success with his brief Le son-calligraphie n. 1, the first of three pieces for two string quartets. He has experimented with other instrumental combinations and with the use of prerecorded tape. MIDI FILE - Rain Tree Sketch No.1 (3'14'') For this last there is a series of compositions and he also wrote a number of distinguished film-scores.
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