Yanagi Kaneko

Yanagi Kaneko, 1951

Yanagi Kaneko ( Japanese 柳 兼 子 , real name: 中 島 兼 子 Nakashima Kaneko ; * May 18, 1892 , † June 1, 1984 ) was a Japanese singer with an alto voice . She was married to Yanagi Muneyoshi , an art critic, religious philosopher and founder of the Japanese folk art movement. Her oldest son was the industrial designer Yanagi Sōri , her second oldest son is the art historian Yanagi Munemoto ( 柳宗玄 ) and her third son was the garden architect Yanagi Munetami ( 柳宗民 ).

Life

After attending the 1st Tokyo Girls High School, Kaneko Yanagi studied at the Tokyo Music School ( 東京 音 楽 学校 , Tōkyō Ongaku Gakkō ), which she graduated in 1901 in singing. Her teacher was the German - Norwegian singer and teacher Hanka Schjelderup Petzold . In 1914 she married her husband Muneyoshi Yanagi. From 1924 she taught at the 1st Girls High School Tokyo and the Dōshisha Women's University ( 同志 社 女子 大学 , Dōshisha joshi daigaku , Doshisha Women's College of Liberal Arts). In 1927, she performed works by Gustav Mahler under the direction of Konoe Hidemaro , including the Kindertotenlieder , Rückert-Lieder and Des Knaben Wunderhorn, together with the New Symphony Orchestra ( 新 交響 楽 団 , Shin Kōkyō Gakudan ), the forerunner of today's NHK Symphony Orchestra . In 1928 she stayed in Berlin to study abroad.

From 1930 on she taught at the Jiyū Gakuen Girls School. Three years later, in 1933, she was appointed to the Judges' Committee for the Japanese Music Prize of the Mainichi Shinbun . From 1939 on she taught at the Imperial Music Academy in Tokyo. She remained an active singer until the old age of 87.

Appreciation

"Yanagi Kaneko (1892–1984) developed the Japanese song singing method when Western music is not established in Japan, and was a pioneer in Japan of the Deutsches Lied singing method, and built the vocal music base of Japan."

- Ko Inuk

「そ の 歌声 は「 日本 の 声 楽 の 母 」と 称 え ら れ て い る.」

"This voice can be called the mother of Japanese vocal music."

Prizes and awards

• 1950 Special Prize of the Mainichi Music Prize
• 1961 Medal of Honor on a violet ribbon
• 1961 Prize of the Japanese Academy of Arts (Onshishō)
• 1972 appointed member of the Japanese Academy of Arts

Discography

• Utagokoro ( う た ご こ ろ ), CD, Art Union, ART-3017
• Kaneko Yanagi Gendai Nihon Kakyoku Senshū ( 現代 日本 歌曲 選集 , e.g. selection of contemporary Japanese works), Audio Lab, OVCA-00001
• Kaneko Yanagi Seikaku Risataru ( 声 楽 リ サ イ タ ル , vocal music), Audio Lab, OVCA-00002 (recorded live on November 5, 1975 at Daiichi Seimei Hall, Tokyo)
• Kaneko Yanagi Gendai Nihon Kakyoku Senshū 2 ( 現代 日本 歌曲 選集 2 ), Audio Lab, OVCA-00003
• Eien no Aruto Kaneko Yanagi ( 永遠 の ア ル ト 柳 兼 子 , for example Kaneko Yanagi - the timeless alto voice), Green Door Music Publishing, GD-2001 ~ 2003
• Maō Kaneko Yanagi ( 魔王 柳 兼 子 ), Green Door Music Publishing, 2007, GD-2004

Web links

• Ko Inuk ( 高 仁 淑 ): 柳 兼 子 の 公演 活動 と 朝鮮 に お け る 民 芸 運動 (Res.Bull.Education, Kyushu). (PDF) In: 九州 大学 大 学院 教育学 研究 紀要 . 2004, pp. 51-68 , accessed November 28, 2016 (Japanese). 

Individual evidence

1. ↑ 柳 兼 子 . In: デ ジ タ ル 大 辞 泉 at kotobank.jp. Retrieved December 4, 2016 (Japanese). 
2. ↑ Detlev Schauwecker : Hanka Schjelderup Petzold (1862–1937) - A Norwegian musician in Japan during the Taisho years. (PDF) Kansai University, p. 57 , accessed January 21, 2017 . 
3. ↑ Ko Insuk: YANAGI Kaneko's performance activity and MINGEI (National Art) Movement in colonial Korea
4. ↑ 我 孫子 に ゆ か り の 人 と 作品 , ed.
5. ↑ 魔王 . 2007, accessed December 4, 2016 . 

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