(17 December 1930 – 2 September 2013) was a Japanese

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Biography

Makoto Moroi was born in Tokyō, and is the son of Saburō Moroi. He studied composition with Tomojirō Ikenouchi at the

Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music or is the most prestigious art school in Japan. Located in Ueno Park, it also has facilities in Toride, Ibaraki, Yokohama, Kanagawa, and Kitasenju and Adachi, Tokyo. The university has trained renowned artists in the fields of painting, scul ...

, graduating in 1952. He also studied

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privately with

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, and

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and

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with

Eta Harich-Schneider Eta (Margarete) Harich-Schneider (''née'' Schneider; 16 November 1894 – 10 January 1986) was a German harpsichordist, musicologist, Japanologist and writer. Life Born in Oranienburg, Harich-Schneider later gave her year of birth as 1897, wh ...

. He was one of the leading composers who introduced Japanese audiences to new musical styles and devices, including

twelve-tone technique The twelve-tone technique—also known as dodecaphony, twelve-tone serialism, and (in British usage) twelve-note composition—is a method of musical composition first devised by Austrian composer Josef Matthias Hauer, who published his "law o ...

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, and

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. He was one of the first Japanese composers to embrace

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, and also introduced traditional Japanese instruments like the

shakuhachi A is a Japanese and ancient Chinese longitudinal, end-blown flute that is made of bamboo. The bamboo end-blown flute now known as the was developed in Japan in the 16th century and is called the .

into his compositions. He died, aged 82, on 2 September 2013.

List of works

Opera

* 1959 – The Stars of Pythagoras * 1960 – Red Cocoon * 1961 – Die lange, lange Strasse lange * 1962 – Yamauba * 1965 – Phaeton the charioteer

Choral

* 1959 – Chamber Cantata No. 1 * 1959 – Chamber Cantata No. 2 * 1970 – Izumo, my home * 1972 – A romance of playing cards

Orchestral

* 1953 – Composition No. 1 * 1958 – Composition No. 2 * 1958 – Composition No. 3 * 1960 – Composition No. 4 * 1961 – Ode to Schoenberg * 1966 – The Vision of Cain, symphonic sketch * 1968 – Symphony

Concertante

* 1963 – Suite concertante for violin and orchestra * 1964 – Toccata, Sarabande and Tarantella for piano and double string orchestra * 1966 – Piano Concerto No. 1 * 1968 – Three Movements for shakuhachi, strings and percussion * 1971 – Piano Concerto No. 2 * 1973 – Kyoso Symphony, for folk instruments and orchestra

Chamber

* 1950 – Chamber Music No. 1 * 1950 – Chamber Music No. 2 * 1951 – Chamber Music No. 3 * 1954 – Chamber Music No. 4 * 1962 – Five Epigramms * 1966 – Five conversations for two shakuhachi * 1967 – Five metamorphic strata * 1972 – Contradiction * 1972 – Contradiction II * 1976 – Hanafuda denki

Instrumental

* 1951 – Sonata da camera for piano * 1952 – Partita for flute * 1954 – Alpha and Beta, for piano * 1964 – Five pieces for shakuhachi * 1967 – Eight parables for piano * 1970 – Les farces, for violin * 1972 – Sinfonia for S.M., for sanjugen * 1978 – Fantasie and Fugue for organ

Tape

* 1956 – Seven variations (collaboration with

Toshiro Mayuzumi Toshiro Mayuzumi (黛敏郎 ''Mayuzumi Toshirō'' ; 20 February 1929 – 10 April 1997) was a Japanese composer known for his implementation of Avant-garde music, avant-garde instrumentation alongside traditional Japanese musical technique ...

) * 1958 – Transfiguration * 1962 – Variété * 1968 – Small confession