The Japan Composer's Association, or JACOMPA (日本作曲家協会 in
Japanese
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) 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, ...
, 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 a ...
(1958–1978)
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Ryoichi Hattori (1978–1993)
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Tadashi Yoshida (1993–1997)
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Toru Funamura (1997–2005)
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Minoru Endo (2005–2008)
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Takashi Miki (2008–2009)
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Katsuhisa Hattori
was a Japanese classical composer who also wrote music for anime films, television series and OVAs. Hattori was a respected composer in Japan; his style was classical, although he was experienced and respected in many other genres, such as New ...
(2009-2013)
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Gendai Kano (2013-)
See also
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Japan Record Award
is a major music awards show, held annually in Japan that recognizes outstanding achievements in the Japan Composer's Association. Until 2005, the show aired on New Year's Eve, but has since aired every December 30 on TBS Japan at 6:30 P.M JST a ...
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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