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Toru Takemitsu

1930 - 1996

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Tōru Takemitsu (武満 徹; pronounced [takeꜜmitsɯ̥ toːɾɯ]; 8 October 1930 – 20 February 1996) was a Japanese composer and writer on aesthetics and music theory. Largely self-taught, Takemitsu was admired for the subtle manipulation of instrumental and orchestral timbre. He is known for combining elements of oriental and occidental philosophy and for fusing sound with silence and tradition with innovation. He composed several hundred independent works of music, scored more than ninety films and published twenty books. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Toru Takemitsu is the 377th most popular composer (up from 380th in 2019), the 432nd most popular biography from Japan (down from 395th in 2019) and the 3rd most popular Japanese Composer.

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Among COMPOSERS

Among composers, Toru Takemitsu ranks 377 out of 1,451. Before him are Jean-François Le Sueur, Louis-Nicolas Clérambault, John Dunstaple, Ernest Ansermet, Alessandro Stradella, and Grażyna Bacewicz. After him are Josef Rheinberger, Alexander Agricola, Louis Durey, Nikolai Medtner, Ferdinando Carulli, and Christian Gottlob Neefe.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1930, Toru Takemitsu ranks 111. Before him are Rod Taylor, William C. Campbell, Tadao Kobayashi, Michel Serres, Sławomir Mrożek, and Jānis Pujats. After him are Friedrich Gulda, Jo Bonnier, James Irwin, Ruth Rendell, J. G. Ballard, and Greg Bell. Among people deceased in 1996, Toru Takemitsu ranks 69. Before him are Mieczysław Weinberg, Leonor Fini, Walter M. Miller Jr., María Casares, Brigitte Helm, and Lucio Fulci. After him are Spiro Agnew, Frida Boccara, Robert, Archduke of Austria-Este, Mary Leakey, Hans Blumenberg, and Bob Paisley.

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In Japan

Among people born in Japan, Toru Takemitsu ranks 432 out of 6,245. Before him are Hishikawa Moronobu (1618), Seishirō Itagaki (1885), Hara Takashi (1856), Masamune (1300), Yumi Umeoka (1950), and Shohei Imamura (1926). After him are Sawao Kato (1946), Nobuyuki Oishi (1939), Emperor Yōzei (867), Yodo-dono (1569), Emperor Antoku (1178), and Ihara Saikaku (1642).

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Among COMPOSERS In Japan

Among composers born in Japan, Toru Takemitsu ranks 3. Before him are Ryuichi Sakamoto (1952), and Ichirou Mizuki (1948). After him are Miki Matsubara (1959), Toshi Ichiyanagi (1933), Nobuo Uematsu (1959), Shunsuke Kikuchi (1931), Koichi Sugiyama (1931), Keiko Abe (1937), Kenji Kawai (1957), Akira Ifukube (1914), and Koji Kondo (1961).

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