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Toshi Ichiyanagi

1933 - 2022

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Toshi Ichiyanagi (一柳 慧, Ichiyanagi Toshi; 4 February 1933 – 7 October 2022) was a Japanese avant-garde composer and pianist. One of the leading composers in Japan during the postwar era, Ichiyanagi worked in a range of genres, composing Western-style operas and orchestral and chamber works, as well as compositions using traditional Japanese instruments. Ichiyanagi is known for incorporating avant-garde techniques into his works, such as chance music, extended technique, and nontraditional scoring. Ichiyanagi was married to artist Yoko Ono from 1956 to 1962. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Toshi Ichiyanagi is the 686th most popular composer (up from 752nd in 2019), the 820th most popular biography from Japan (up from 838th in 2019) and the 5th most popular Japanese Composer.

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Among COMPOSERS

Among composers, Toshi Ichiyanagi ranks 686 out of 1,451. Before him are Adolf Wiklund, Francisco Guerrero, Joseph Hellmesberger Jr., Jeremiah Clarke, Oskar Merikanto, and Giovanni Battista Vitali. After him are Zbigniew Preisner, Alonso Mudarra, Jakov Gotovac, Jerome Kern, Maurice Emmanuel, and Josip Runjanin.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1933, Toshi Ichiyanagi ranks 181. Before him are Sabah Fakhri, Ceija Stojka, Ron Wyatt, Humberto Maschio, Saleh Al-Fawzan, and Stuart Roosa. After him are James Rosenquist, Vera Krepkina, Abel Pacheco, Juan Sandoval Íñiguez, Tetsuko Kuroyanagi, and Bobby Smith. Among people deceased in 2022, Toshi Ichiyanagi ranks 172. Before him are Yi-Fu Tuan, Börje Salming, Paul Veyne, Nichelle Nichols, Kenneth Tsang, and Leonardo Del Vecchio. After him are Abu Ibrahim al-Hashimi al-Qurashi, Anatoly Filipchenko, Maryan Wisniewski, Muhammad Rafiq Tarar, Philip Baker Hall, and Kazuki Takahashi.

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In Japan

Among people born in Japan, Toshi Ichiyanagi ranks 820 out of 6,245. Before him are Hiroshi Teshigahara (1927), Isao Inokuma (1938), Chieko Hase (1956), Tadashi Yanai (1949), Donald Tsang (1944), and Isamu Chō (1895). After him are Hiroshi Inagaki (1905), Prince Koreyasu (1264), Kinuyo Tanaka (1909), Hasui Kawase (1883), Ashikaga Yoshihide (1538), and Goro Shimura (1930).

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Among COMPOSERS In Japan

Among composers born in Japan, Toshi Ichiyanagi ranks 5. Before him are Ryuichi Sakamoto (1952), Ichirou Mizuki (1948), Toru Takemitsu (1930), and Miki Matsubara (1959). After him are 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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