was a Japanese composer of
contemporary classical music, and brother of composer
Kan Ishii
was a Japanese composer, and the brother of composer Maki Ishii. His father, was a prominent Japanese ballet dancer. His ''Symphonia Ainu'' won a prize at the 1958 Art Festival, inspiring him to do further work inspired by nationalist primitivi ...
.
Biography
Born in
Tokyo
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, Ishii studied composition privately (with
Akira Ifukube
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Biography Early years in Hokkaido
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and
Tomojiro Ikenouchi) and conducting with
Akeo Watanabe
was a Japanese symphonic conductor, known for his recordings of the works of Jean Sibelius.
Watanabe was born in 1919 to a Japanese father and Finnish mother. He studied violin and conducted at the Tokyo Music School and the Juilliard School o ...
from 1952 to 1958 in Tokyo, then moved to
Berlin
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, where he continued his studies under
Boris Blacher
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Life
Blacher was born when his parents (of German-Estonian and Russian backgrounds) were living within a Russian-speaking community in the Manchurian town of Niuzhuang () (h ...
and
Josef Rufer Josef Rufer (1893–1985) was an Austrian-born musicologist. He is regarded as a significant figure mainly on account of his association with and writings on Arnold Schoenberg.
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. In 1962 he returned to Japan .
His music has been performed by the ''
taiko
are a broad range of Japanese percussion instruments. In Japanese, the term refers to any kind of drum, but outside Japan, it is used specifically to refer to any of the various Japanese drums called and to the form of ensemble drumming ...
'' group
Kodo and he has composed for Japanese instruments as well as symphony orchestra and other Western instruments.
He died in
Kashiwa,
Chiba,
Japan, at the Kashiwa National Cancer Center of
thyroid cancer
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on April 8, 2003, at the age of 66.
Selected works
Orchestral Music
* ''Symphonic Poem GIOH,'' Op. 60. (1984); recorded 1988 DENON, The Contemporary Music of Japan, COCO-70960, Kyoto Symphony Orchestra, Koizumi, Kazuhiro conductor, Akao, Michiko, Yokobue, a typical Japanese Flute.
* ''Sō-Gū II'' for Gagaku and Symphonic Orchestra, recorded 1971
Parlophone
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by the Gagaku Ensemble and the
Japan Philharmonic Orchestra
The (JPO) is a Japanese symphony orchestra based in Tokyo, with administrative offices in Suginami.
History
The orchestra was established on June 22, 1956, as the exclusive subsidiary orchestra under the Nippon Cultural Broadcasting. Akeo Watan ...
under
Seiji Ozawa.
Sources
*Funayama, Takashi. 1997. "Klänge zwischen Ost und West: Betrachtungen zu Maki Ishiis ''Fūshi''", translated by Reinhold Quandt and Chris Drake. In ''Sei no hibiki, tō no hibiki: Ishii Maki no ongaku—Futatsu no sekai kara no sōzō/Westlicher Klang, östlicher Klang: Die Musik Maki Ishiis—Schöpfung aus zwei Musikwelten'', edited by Christa Ishii-Meinecke, 118–49. Celle: Hermann Moeck. .
*
*Kido, Toshirō. 1997. "Ikonologie der Klänge: Die Musik Maki Ishiis und das räumliche Konzept in der traditionellen japanischen Musik", translated by Robin Thompson and Christa Ishii-Meinecke. In ''Sei no hibiki, tō no hibiki: Ishii Maki no ongaku—Futatsu no sekai kara no sōzō/Westlicher Klang, östlicher Klang: Die Musik Maki Ishiis—Schöpfung aus zwei Musikwelten'', edited by Christa Ishii-Meinecke, 180–225. Celle: Hermann Moeck. .
*Mattner, Lothar. 1988. "Verharrende Zeit: Der Komponist Maki Ishii". ''Neue Zeitschrift für Musik'' 149, no. 11 (November): 19–22.
*Sparrer, Walter-Wolfgang. 1999. "Buddhistisches und christliches, expressionistisches und bruitistisches: Zur deutschen Erstaufführung von Maki Ishiis Oper Das Schiff ohne Augen im Berliner
Hebbel Theater
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The theatre, with approximately 800 seats, was built by Oskar Kaufmann ...
". ''Neue Zeitschrift für Musik'' 160, no. 6 (November–December): 58.
Further reading
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External links
Maki Ishii official siteMaki Ishii official siteMaki Ishii official siteMaki Ishii former official site
1936 births
2003 deaths
20th-century classical composers
20th-century Japanese composers
20th-century Japanese male musicians
Deaths from cancer in Japan
Deaths from thyroid cancer
Japanese classical composers
Japanese male classical composers
Musicians from Tokyo
Recipients of the Medal with Purple Ribbon
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