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
 
 
 
 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 . 2011.

Liên kết ngoài
 Toru Takemitsu: Complete Works
 Schott Music Biography
 Complete Takemitsu Edition  
 Slate article focusing on his film music
 Interview with Toru Takemitsu
 
 

Sinh năm 1930
Mất năm 1996
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