Shimizu Osamu

Shimizu Osamu ( Japanese 清水 脩 ; born November 4, 1911 in Osaka , † October 29, 1986 in Tokyo ) was a Japanese composer.

Shimizu studied from 1936 to 1939 at the Tokyo Conservatory (today: Tokyo University of the Arts ), where he was a student of Hashimoto Kunihiko . He worked in the music department of Radio Tokyo and later was general director of a publishing house. He composed fifteen operas and two ballets in which he used materials from the Kabuki theater, as well as four symphonies, chamber music works, Buddhist cantatas, choral works and songs as well as the Olympic anthem for the opening of the 1964 Olympic Games in Tokyo.

Operas

• Shuzenji monogatari (The story of Shuzenji; libretto by Okamoto Kidō based on a Shin Kabuki play), WP 1954
• The Charcoal Princess , Premiere 1956
• The Man Who Shoots at the Blue Sky , UA 1956
• Gauche, the cellist , UA 1957
• The Singing Skeleton , Premiere 1962
• Shankan / Shunkan (own libretto with Okamoto Kazuhiko ), WP 1964
• The Merciful Poet , UA 1965
• Sumiyaki-hime , UA 1967
• Muko erabi (The Marriage Contest), premiered in Los Angeles in 1968
• Daibutsu-Kaigen , WP 1970
• Ikuta Gawa , UA 1971
• Yokobue , UA 1973
• Kicchomu shoten , WP 1973
• Shishiodori no Hajimari , UA 1978
• Aozora o Utsu Otoko , UA 1979

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Osamu Shimizu . The Concise Grove Dictionary of Music. Oxford University Press, 1994. Answers.com , accessed November 24, 2010.
2. ↑ Osamu Shimizu. In: operone. Retrieved November 24, 2010 . 

Japanese name: As is common in Japan, the family name comes before the first name in this article . Thus Shimizu is the family name, Osamu the first name.