Taki Rentarō

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Taki Rentarō

Rentarō Taki ( Japanese 瀧 廉 太郎 Taki Rentarō ; born August 24, 1879 in Tokyo , † June 29, 1903 in Ōita ) was a Japanese composer .

Life

After graduating from the Tokyo Music School (today: Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music ) in 1901, where he was a student of August Junkers , he went to the Leipzig Conservatory to pursue his studies (composition with Salomon Jadassohn , piano with Robert Teichmüller ), but became seriously ill with tuberculosis and had to return to Japan. He died there shortly afterwards at the age of 23.

In Taketa on Kyushu , where Taki spent his school days, there is a museum (Taki Rentarō Kinenkan) and a memorial (a replica of the Leipzig memorial plaque).

  • Monument in Leipzig

  • Statue in Ōita

In Leipzig, on the 100th anniversary of his death in 2003, the International Mendelssohn Foundation erected a Rentaro-Taki monument near his house (no longer available) in Ferdinand-Rhode-Strasse. It was designed by Ulf Puder , who had won a competition.

Taki mainly wrote piano music and songs. The song Kōjō no Tsuki ( 荒城 の 月 - "The moon over the castle ruins"), one of his most famous compositions , was also picked up by musicians such as Thelonious Monk and the Scorpions . In Japan he is known as "Japanese Schubert " because of his many well-known songs .

Compositions for piano (selection)

  • Minuet in B minor
  • Urami ( 憾 - "regrettable") in D minor

Vocal music (selection)

  • Hakone hachiri ( 箱根 八里 - "Eight miles through Hakone ")
  • Hana ( 花 - "cherry blossoms")
  • Kōjō no tsuki ( 荒城 の 月 - "The moon over the castle ruins")
  • O-shōgatsu ( お 正月 - "New Year")
  • Mizu asobi ( 水 遊 び - "splashing in the water")

Web links

Commons : Rentarō Taki  - collection of images

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ German-Japanese culture of remembrance das-japanische-gedaechtnis.de
  2. ↑ Markus Cottin, Karl-Heinz Kretzschmar, Dieter Kürschner, Ilona Petzold: Leipzig monuments . Volume 2, Sax-Verlag Beucha 2009, ISBN 3-930076-71-3 , p. 35
Japanese name: As is common in Japan, the family name comes before the first name in this article . Thus Taki is the family name, Rentarō the first name.
personal data
SURNAME Taki, Rentaro
ALTERNATIVE NAMES 瀧 廉 太郎 (Japanese)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Japanese composer
DATE OF BIRTH August 24, 1879
PLACE OF BIRTH Tokyo
DATE OF DEATH June 29, 1903
Place of death Ōita