Akira Miyoshi

Akira Miyoshi ( Japanese 三 善 晃 Miyoshi Akira ; born January 10, 1933 in Suginami , Tokyo Prefecture ; † October 4, 2013 ) was a Japanese composer .

Career

Miyoshi initially studied French literature for four years at the University of Tokyo . In 1955 he received a scholarship and moved to the Conservatoire Superieure in Paris , where he studied composition with Henri Dutilleux . He graduated in 1957 on his return to Japan.

In 1953 he won first prize at the 22nd Japan Music Contest with his Sonata for Clarinet, Bassoon, and Piano . Numerous works have received awards and prizes in Japan and Europe. a. 1954 the Art Festival Promotion Prize of the Agency of Cultural Affairs , the Italia Prize , the 3rd Otaka Prize and the Palme Académique of the French government. From 1954 to 1995 he was President of Toho Gakuen University . He later was the manager of the Tokyo Metropolitan Festival Hall .

In March 1999 his first opera Faraway Sail about Hasekura Tsunenaga premiered with great success. This work was awarded the Suntory Music Foundation Prize.

Works

Works for orchestra

• 1958: Mutation symphonique
• 1960: Trois mouvements symphoniques - (Kôkyô sanshô)
• 1962: Concerto for piano and orchestra
• 1964: Duel for soprano and orchestra
• 1965: Concerto for violin and orchestra
• 1969: Concert for marimba and string ensemble
• 1969: Odes métamorphosées
• 1970: Festival Overture
• 1970: Requiem for mixed choir and orchestra
• 1974: Concerto for violoncello and orchestra
• 1978: Noesis
• 1979: Psaume for mixed choir and orchestra
• 1982: En-Soi Lointain
• 1984: Kyômon for children's choir and orchestra
• 1988: Litania pour Fuji
• 1991: Création sonore
• 1991: Etoiles à cordes
• 1995: Dispersion de l'été
• 1996: Étoile à échos for violoncello and orchestra
• 1997: Fruits de brume
• 1998: Chanson Terminale: Effeuillage des Vagues

Works for wind orchestra

• 1972: Sapporo Olympic Fanfare
• 1987: Subliminal Festa - (Secret Rites)
• 1990: Stars Atlanpic '96
• 1991: Cross-By March
• 2000: Millennium Fanfare
• 2002: West Wind (drum concert)

Chamber music

• 1954: violin sonata
• 1955: Sonata for flute, violoncello and piano
• 1962: String Quartet No. 1
• 1967: String Quartet No. 2
• 1969: Huit poèmes for flute octet
• 1973: Nocturne for flute, clarinet, marimba, double bass and percussion
• 1975: Litania for double bass and percussion
• 1979: Homage for flute, violin and piano
• 1980: Ixtacchihuatl for percussion ensemble
• 1982: Rêve colorie for two clarinets
• 1985: Message Sonore for flute, clarinet, marimba, double bass and percussion
• 1987: C6H for violoncello
• 1989: Ombre Scintillante for flute and harp
• 1989: Perspective en Spirale for clarinet and piano
• 1990: 5 esquisses for euphonium and marimba
• 1992: String Quartet No. 3: Constellation Noire

Piano music

• 1958: piano sonata
• 1960: Suite In Such Time
• 1973: Chaîne's prelude for piano
• 1980: En verse for piano
• 1981: A Diary of the Sea (28 tracks)
• 1984: Phenomene sonore I for 2 pianos
• 1985: Cahier sonore for piano 4 hands
• 1995: Phenomene sonore II for 2 pianos
• 1998: Pour le piano - mouvement circulaire et croisé

Music for guitar

• 1974: Protase "de loin à rien" for 2 guitars
• 1975: epitase
• 1985: 5 Poèmes
• 1989: Constellation Noire for guitar and string quartet

Music for percussion

• 1962: Conversation Suite for Marimba
  1. Tender Talk
  2. So Nice It Was ... Repeatedly
  3. Lingering chagrin
  4. Again The Hazy Answer!
  5. A lame excuse
• 1968: Torse III for marimba
  1. thesis
  2. Chant
  3. Commentaire
  4. synthesis
• 1977: Étude Concertante for 2 marimbas
• 1987: Rin-sai for marimba solo and six percussion players
• 1991: Ripple for Marimba Solo
• 2001: Prelude Etudes for Marimba

Music for traditional Japanese instruments

• 1972: Torse IV for Shakuhachi, 2 koto, 17-gen and string quartet
• 1986: Ryusho Kyoku Suifu for Shakuhachi, 2 koto and 17-gen
• 1994: Gikyoku for Japanese instruments

singing

• 1962: En blanc for soprano and piano
• 1962: Sei sanryoh hari for soprano and piano
• 1991: Koeru Kage ni for soprano and piano

Choral music

• 1962: Three Lyrics (Mittsu no Jojoh) for female choir and piano
• 1966: Four Seasons for mixed choir
• 1968: Five Pictures for Children for mixed choir and piano
  1. The weathercock
  2. The trumpet shell
  3. "Yajiro-be" - A balancing toy
  4. The sand-glass
  5. A top of acorn
• 1970: Ohson fuki for male choir and piano
• 1971: Four Autumn Songs for female choir and piano
• 1972: Odeko no koitsu for children's choir and piano
• 1973: 5 Japanese folk songs for mixed choir
  1. Awa odori
  2. Sado okesa
  3. Kiso bushi
  4. Soran bushi
  5. Itsuki no komoriuta
• 1973: Otewanmiso no uta for mixed choir
• 1975: Hengetan'ei for mixed choir, shakuchachi, percussion instrument and 17-gen
• 1976: Kitsune-no-uta for children's choir, speaker and piano
• 1982: Norainu Doji for female choir and piano
• 1983: Ballades to the Earth for mixed choir
• 1983: Poems of Animals for mixed choir and piano
• 1984: Poems of Animals for female choir and piano
• 1984: Collection of songs "Died in the Country" for mixed choir and two pianos
• 1985: Letters To God for children's choir and marimba
• 1987: Umi (The Sea) for mixed choir and two pianos
• 1991: Yamagara Diary for children's choir, sanukite and marimba
• 1992: Asakura Sanka for narrator, mixed choir, Japanese flute and taiko
• 1996: Kamuy no kaze (Wind of Kamuy) for mixed choir and piano

Stage works

• 1999: Faraway Sail ( 遠 い 帆 , tōiho ) opera

Film music

• Anne with the red hair

Books and writings

• Akira Miyoshi: The Silent Beat of Japanese Music , in Japanese Essences (Japan as I see it - 3) Shichi Yamamoto, Kenichi Fukui et al., Tokyo. 1985.
• Yoko Narasaki : Toru Takemitsu to Akira Miyoshi no Sakkyoku Yoshiki (The Style of Composition of Toru Takemitsu and Akira Miyoshi). Tokyo: Ongaku no Tomosha, 1994.

Web links

• Akira Miyoshi in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• Akira Miyoshi: Works