Ishii Kan

Ishii Kan ( Japanese 石井 歓 ; born March 30, 1921 in Tokyo , † November 24, 2009 in Yokohama ) was a Japanese composer.

The son of the dancer Ishii Baku played the piano in his father's dance troupe. He studied from 1939 to 1943 at the Musashino Conservatory and was a student of Ikenouchi Tomojiro . After training in Japan, he was a student of Carl Orff in Munich from 1952 to 1954 .

Until 1956 he taught at the Tōhō-Gakuen Music Academy . From 1958 he completed his training with Boris Blacher and Josef Rufer . From 1966 to 1986 he taught at the Nagoya School of Art.

He composed six operas and one operetta, three ballets, a symphonic poem, chamber music works, choral music and solo chants as well as film scores. His brother Ishii Maki was also known as a composer.

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• Don Michael Rendel: The Harvard concise dictionary of music and musicians , 2nd ed., Harvard University Press, 1999, ISBN 9780674000841 , p. 328
• Europa Publications: International Who's Who in Classical Music 2003 , 19th revised edition, Routledge, 2003, ISBN 9781857431742 , p. 365
• Kan Ishii in the Internet Movie Database (English)

Japanese name: As is common in Japan, the family name comes before the first name in this article . So Ishii is the family name, Kan is the first name.