Great Composers: The Japanese

Hello!

Let me explain to you viewers who these composers are.

Nobuo Ueamtsu: He composes music for videogames, especially for the Final Fantasy series.
He is largely self-taught.
The fact that he composes music for video games might put some people off, but he has composed some really good music. He was my first musical inspiration.

Toru Takemitsu: A well known Japanese composer. he is also largely self-taught.
His influences include Claude Debussy, Anton Webern, Edgard Varèse, Arnold Schoenberg, and Olivier Messiaen, and also Japanese tradicional music.
He has also composed music for films.

Rentaro Taki: A well known composer of Japan. He was also a pianist. He composed music for piano, short vocal works and songs for children. His style is a fusion of Tradicional Japanese music and german romanticism, which he learned in the Liepzig Conservatory. He died at the early age of 23.

Yuzo Toyama: Yuzo Toyama was born in Tokyo in 1931. He studied composition under Kan-ichi Shimofusa, a pupil of Hindemith and a conducting student of Kurt Wss and Wilhelm Loibner, both of whom conducted the NHK Symphony Orchestra in Tokyo in the 1950s. Toyama has served as the principal conductor of a number of orchestras in Japan. As a composer he has been under the influence of Bartok and Shostakovich in particular, and like Kodly he attaches great importance to the use of folk melodies in his works.

I think that it is important to listen to music from different cultures and that way you can picture that culture and listen to what people in that culture were thinking. I also believe that its important to listen to different kinds of music, because it helps a person develope as a musician.

There might possibly be a part 2 of this video, but I'm not certain yet, because my knowledge on asian composers is very little.

I will be uploading some more pieces from Bortkiewicz and after that I will be uploading music from these composers!
I hope you have enjoyed the video!

(I had to reupload the video because I made a huge mistake)

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[leggings85]

Thanks for this compilation. Glad to see some people appreciating modern Japanese Classical Music. One composer you could include in your next video is Takashi Yoshimatsu, who is probably the most famous contempory Japanese Classical Composer to date.

[DarkRaimundo]

I agree! I should have put him on this video, but I think I will include him in Part 2.

Thank you for your kind comment!

[MalaikaNina]

Lol, I can't believe you put Nobuo Uematsu in your list, I love his music (especially in all the Final Fantasy !), but It's strange to find him in the middle of all these classical composers, nice choice =)

[DarkRaimundo]

Yeah, I probably agree with you there. I wasn't going to put him in the list, but I do agree that he is a great composer, and some of his music has really touched me. In any case, the list isn't finished yet. I will release more Japanese composers in future videos.

[thphaca]

My god. I've never heard such amazing music. This is why I always loved japanese composers. Their approach was more towards romanticism and they took daring choices in their compositions. Their depth is just amazing. They go beyond traditional european progressions. Don't get me wrong, I'm American myself, but most American composers can't go beyond basic harmony like these guys.

[DarkRaimundo]

I totally agree with you! The Japanese composers are largely regected. I really love their music. I only decided to listen to music from japanese composers because I wanted to explore different musical talent, and I found a large treasure.

Thank you for your kind comment!

[LunaMoon0925]

don't forget ryuichi sakamoto and joe hisaishi

[jongsong86]

Dont forget Ryuichi Sakamoto, and yoko shimomura..

[grossandri1]

don't forget yoko kanno



[thphaca]

@JeffGR4 Among my favorite composers are Rachmaninoff (Russian), Liszt (Hungarian), Debussy and Lourie (French), Williams (American), Albenez (Hispanic), and Holst (British). I know my previous comment was a pretty strong statement and I didn't mean to downplay other composers. Admittedly, my ears are much more diverse than they were 2 years ago and my opinion is slightly changed, but there are aspects of eastern harmony that compel me to still strongly appreciate it.

[Sinara6]

One Winged Angel kicked my ass and left me scarred. I am ready for this abusive relationship. :D

[JeffGR4]

@thphaca You've "never heard such amazing music" as that by the Japanese composers? Well, then I can only presume that you haven't yet heard the Austrians, Russians, Czechs, Germans, French, Italians, Polish, Scandinavians, Hungarians, Spanish, Swiss...

[bluelightdawn]

THANKS!!!! I didn't know Rentaro Taki, he's great! I didn't know anything about classical music from Japan actually!

[scampynoXD]

Don't forget Shunsuke Kikuchi!! :D

[goshbeergosh]

hello, just asking, is part 2 up yet?

[JiangxenPeter]

Thank you greatly for this compilation. As a former Oriental living in UK, it's really inspiring to listen to these composers. Please alert me when you upload more. I just find these styles fascinating!!

[longlivereligion]

i see no one is giving yasinori mitsuda some lovin :(

[skymadder]

why isnt there sakamoto ryuichi and hisaishi joe?