The Japan Composer's Association, or JACOMPA (日本作曲家協会 in
Japanese) is an organization of
Japanese composers
This is a list of Japanese composers, ordered by birth date.
Not true actually:
* Zeami Motokiyo (1363-1443)
* Yatsuhashi Kengyo (1614–1685)
* Uragami Gyokudō (1745-1820)
* Hiromori Hayashi (1831–1896)
* Nakao Tozan (1876-1956)
Shōka, Li ...
, established in 1959. Among its members are some of Japan's most renowned composers of
contemporary classical music
Contemporary classical music is classical music composed close to the present day. At the beginning of the 21st century, it commonly referred to the post-1945 modern forms of post-tonal music after the death of Anton Webern, and included seria ...
.
Presidents
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Masao Koga
was a Japanese composer, mandolinist, and guitarist of the Shōwa era who was dubbed "Japan's Irving Berlin" by Universal Press Syndicate. His melancholy style, based upon Nakayama Shimpei's '' yonanuki'' scale, was popularly known in Japan as ...
(1958–1978)
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Ryoichi Hattori (1978–1993)
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Tadashi Yoshida Tadashi (Kanji: 正, 禎, 忠, 荘, 匡史 Hiragana: ただし), Japanese masculine name, may refer to :
*, the first aikido master to live and teach in the west
*, Japanese manga story writer, novelist and screenwriter
*, Japanese basketball coach ...
(1993–1997)
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Toru Funamura TORU or Toru may refer to:
*TORU, spacecraft system
*Toru (given name), Japanese male given name
*Toru, Pakistan, village in Mardan District of Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan
*Tõru
Tõru is a village in Saaremaa Parish, Saare County in western Est ...
(1997–2005)
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Minoru Endo
Minoru is a masculine Japanese given name. Notable people with the name include:
*Minoru Arakawa (荒川 實, born 1946), Japanese former president of Nintendo of America
*Minoru Chiaki (千秋 実, 1917–1999), Japanese actor
*Minoru Fujita ( ...
(2005–2008)
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Takashi Miki (2008–2009)
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Katsuhisa Hattori (2009-2013)
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Gendai Kano may refer to:
* Gendai, a modern aesthetic movement in haiku
* Gendai budō, Japanese martial arts established after the 1860s
* GameSalad (company), formerly Gendai Games, an American computer software company
* ''Shūkan Gendai'', a Japanese maga ...
(2013-)
See also
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Japan Record Award
External links
Japan Composer's Association site(partially English)
Music organizations based in Japan
Organizations established in 1959
1959 establishments in Japan
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