Takemitsu Toru

Takemitsu Toru (1930-1996) là một nhà soạn nhạc người Nhật Bản.

**Cuộc đời và sự nghiệp**
Takemitsu Toru tự học là chủ yếu, trừ các năm 1948-1950 học tại Kiyose.

**Phong cách sáng tác**
Takemitsu Toru sử dụng những thủ pháp tiền phong (avant-garde) và phần lớn qua băng ghi âm.

**Tác phẩm**
Takemitsu Toru đã sáng tác:- Các tác phẩm cho dàn nhạc giao hưởng, trong đó có:- Máu xanh lá cây (1967)- Thời gian mơ mộng (1981)- Hoài cổ (tưởng niệm Andrey Tarkovsky, 1987)- Đường đời của tôi (tưởng nhớ Michael Vyner, 1990)- Các tác phẩm nhạc thính phòng, nhạc điện tử- Các tác phẩm dành cho piano

**Danh mục tác phẩm**

**Tác phẩm cho dàn nhạc**
 Requiem for String Orchestra (1957)- Music of Tree (1961)- The Dorian Horizon (1966)- Green (1967)- Winter (1971)- A Flock Descends into the Pentagonal Garden (1977)- A Way A Lone II for string orchestra (version of A Way a Lone for string quartet)- Dreamtime (1981)- Rain Coming for chamber orchestra (1982)- Dream/Window (1985)- Twill by Twilight—In Memory of Morton Feldman (1988)- Tree Line for chamber orchestra (1988)- Visions (1990)
I Mystère
II Les yeux clos- How slow the Wind (1991)- Archipelago S. for 21 players (1993)

**Tác phẩm cho solo và dàn nhạc**
Scene: for cello and string orchestra (1958)- Arc Part I for piano and orchestra (1963–1966/1976)
I Pile (1963)
II Solitude (1966)
III Your love and the crossing (1963)- Arc Part II for piano and orchestra (1964–1966/1976)
I Textures (1964)
II Reflection (1966)
III Coda... Shall begin from the end (1966)- November Steps for biwa, shakuhachi and orchestra (1967)- Asterism for piano and orchestra (1967)- Eucalypts I for flute, oboe, harp and string orchestra (1970)- Autumn for biwa, shakuhachi and orchestra (1973)- Quatrain for clarinet, violin, cello, piano and orchestra (1975)- Far calls. Coming, far! for violin and orchestra (1980)- Toward the Sea II for alto flute, harp and string orchestra (version of Toward the Sea for alto flute and guitar (1981))- To the Edge of Dream for guitar and orchestra (1983)- Orion and Pleiades for cello and orchestra (1984)- riverrun for piano and orchestra (1984)- I Hear the Water Dreaming for flute and orchestra (1987)- Nostalghia—In Memory of Andrei Tarkovsky for violin and string orchestra (1987)- A String Around Autumn for viola and orchestra (1989)- From Me Flows What You Call Time for five percussionists and orchestra (1990)- Fantasma/Cantos for clarinet and orchestra (1991), winner of the Grawemeyer Award for Music Composition.- Quotation of Dream for two pianos and orchestra (1991)- Fantasma/Cantos II for trombone and orchestra (1994)

**Tác phẩm băng điện tử**
 Static Relief, magnetic tape (1955)- Vocalism A・I, magnetic tape (1956)- Water Music (1960)- Kaidan (1964)

**Tác phẩm thính phòng**
 Le Son Calligraphé I–III for four violins, two violas and two cellos (1958–1960)- Ring for flute, terz guitar and lute (1961)- Corona II for string(s) graphic work in collaboration with Kōhei Sugiura (1962)- Arc for Strings graphic work (1963)- Valeria for violin, cello, guitar, electric organ and two piccolos (1965)- Eucalypts II for flute, oboe and harp (1971)- In an Autumn Garden for gagaku orchestra (1973/1979)- Garden Rain for brass ensemble (1974)- Waves for clarinet, horn, two trombones and bass drum (1976)- Quatrain II for clarinet, violin, cello and piano (1977)- A Way a Lone for string quartet (1981)- Rocking Mirror Daybreak for Violin Duo (1983)- Signals from Heaven—two antiphonal fanfares for two brass groups (1987)
I Day Signal
II Night Signal- And then I knew 'twas Wind for flute, viola and harp (1992)

**Tác phẩm dành cho piano**
 Romance (1949)- Lento in Due Movimenti (1950, unpublished/original lost—rewritten as Litany, 1989)- Piano Distance (1961)- Corona for pianist(s) graphic score (in collaboration with Kōhei Sugiura, 1962)- Crossing graphic score (in collaboration with Kōhei Sugiura, 1962)- For Away (1973)- Les yeux clos (1979)- Rain Tree Sketch (1982)- Litany—In Memory of Michael Vyner recomposition of Lento in Due Movimenti (1950/1989)- Rain Tree Sketch II—In Memoriam Olivier Messiaen (1992)

**Tác phẩm dành cho guitar**
 Folios (1974)- 12 Songs for Guitar (1974, 1977)- The Last Waltz (1983)- A Boy Named HIROSHIMA (1987)- All in Twilight – Four pieces for guitar - written for Julian Bream (1987)- Bad Boy (1961, 1992)- A Pieces for guitar – For the 60th birthday of Sylvano Bussotti - (1991)- Equinox (1993)- In the Woods – Three pieces for guitar - (1995)

**Tác phẩm nhạc phim**
 Pitfall (Otoshiana), dir. Hiroshi Teshigahara (1962)- Harakiri, dir. Masaki Kobayashi (1962)- Woman in the Dunes, dir. Hiroshi Teshigahara (1964)- Kaidan, dir. Masaki Kobayashi (1964)- Assassination, dir. Masahiro Shinoda (1964)- The Face of Another, dir. Hiroshi Teshigahara (1966)- Samurai Rebellion, dir. Masaki Kobayashi (1967)- Double Suicide, dir. Masahiro Shinoda (1969)- Dodesukaden, dir. Akira Kurosawa (1970)- Empire of Passion, dir. Nagisa Oshima (1978)- Ran, dir. Akira Kurosawa (1985)- Black Rain, dir. Shohei Imamura (1989)- Rising Sun, dir. Philip Kaufman (1993)

**Tác phẩm khí nhạc khác**
 Masque, for two flutes (1959, 1960)- Eclipse, for biwa and shakuhachi (1966)- Voice, (1971)- Itinerant—In Memory of Isamu Noguchi, (1989)- Paths, for solo trumpet (1994)- Air (1995, last published work)

**Chú thích**

**Tham khảo**
 isbn=0-521-78220-1 - isbn=0-85967-954-3 - isbn=978-2-296-07763-8 - Koozin, Timothy, "Traversing distances: pitch organization, gesture and imagery in the late works of Tōru Takemitsu", Contemporary Music Review, vol. 21, no.4, (Taylor & Francis, 2002), 17–34 accessible at  informaworld (subscription access) - Nuss, Steven, "Hearing 'Japanese', hearing Takemitsu", Contemporary Music Review, vol. 21, no.4, (Taylor & Francis, 2002), 35–71 accessible at  informaworld (subscription access) - Robinson, Elizabeth A.  Voice, itinerant, and air: a performance and analytical guide to the solo flute works of Toru Takemitsu date=2011-10-09 . 2011.

**Liên kết ngoài**
  Toru Takemitsu: Complete Works-  Schott Music Biography-  Complete Takemitsu Edition date=2007-06-06  -  Slate article focusing on his film music-  Interview with Toru Takemitsu- id=6316- 3125
Thể loại:Sinh năm 1930
Thể loại:Mất năm 1996
Thể loại:Nhà soạn nhạc Nhật Bản
Thể loại:Chết vì ung thư bàng quang