Mitsukuri Shūkichi

Mitsukuri Shūkichi ( Japanese 箕 作 秋 吉 ; born October 21, 1895 in Tokyo , † May 10, 1971 in Kanagawa Prefecture ) was a Japanese composer.

Life

Mitsukuri studied at the University of Tokyo and was then a student of Georg Schumann in Berlin and of Joseph Rosenstock in Tokyo . In 1935 he founded the Japanese section of the International Society for Contemporary Music , of which he was general secretary until 1953. In 1936 he took part in the art competition for the Olympic Games in Berlin with the composition "Healthy Summer". However, his contribution was not awarded. - Since 1939 he was a professor at the University of Tokyo.

He composed two symphonies and a sinfonietta, two symphonic poems , a piano concerto, a classical suite , chamber music works, violin and piano pieces as well as several song and folk song collections .

Works

• 1927 Romantic Suite , Op. 3 for orchestra
• 1927 Classical Music , Op. 4 for string quartet (or orchestra)
• 1931 10 Haikai by Basho , Op. 8 for voice and piano (or orchestra)
• 1934 Sinfonietta classica
• 1935 Sonata for violin and piano , Op. 15th
• 1935 Three Piano Pieces after the Flower , Op. 16 for piano
• 1950 Symphony , Op. 20 for choir and orchestra
• 1953 concert for piano and orchestra
• 1955 Piano Quintet , Op. 31
• 1958 Sakura-sakura for violoncello and piano

literature

• Alfred Baumgartner: Propylaea World of Music - The Composers - A lexicon in five volumes . Propylaen Verlag, Berlin 1989, ISBN 3-549-07830-7 , pp. 57/58, volume 4 .

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