Rentaro Taki (1879-1903) / Kojo no Tsuki 瀧廉太郎／荒城の月 (Overdub)

Rentaro Taki (1879-1903) was a pianist and one of the best-known composers of Japan.
Taki was born in Tokyo, but moved to many places during his childhood owing to his father's job.
He graduated from the Tokyo Music School in 1901.
One of his famous pieces is Kojo no Tsuki, which was included in the songbook for junior high school students, along with the Hakone-Hachiri.
Hana (lit. "Flower") is a well-known song, too.
In the same year, Taki went to the Leipzig Conservatory, Germany to study music further, but fell seriously ill with tuberculosis of the lungs and came back to Japan.
He lived quietly in the country afterwards, but soon died at the age of 23.
His posthumous work is a solo piano piece called Urami, which he wrote four months before he died.
It is said that he laid the meaning of "regret" in the title of his last piece.


Rentaro Taki composed the immortal masterpiece "kojo no tsuki" and died at the age of 23.
He spent his juvenile period obtaining knowledge in his hometown surrounded by scenic beauty.
Oka-jo was a perfect playground for him and he cultivated the gift for music in nature which changed in the four seasons.


*This work was produced by overdubing each part sung by myself.
一人で多重録音しています。

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