Oono Kaoru (大野芳) "Konoe Hidemaro" (近衛秀麿) p.249 is a Japanese composer, a

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performer and researcher, as well as a music arranger. His former last and first name was Konoe Toshitake (近衛俊健).

Career

He was born in the city of

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, Higashi-ku, Kyuhoji as the second son (illegitimate child) to Hidemaro Konoye of the

Konoe family is a Japanese aristocratic family.Edmund Papinot, Papinot, Jacques Edmond Joseph. (1906). ''Dictionnaire d’histoire et de géographie du Japon''; Papinot, (2003)"Konoe," ''Nobiliare du Japon'', p. 24 retrieved 2013-8-13. The family is a branc ...

.Oono (大野)、p.279。 His mother was Fumiko Tsuboi (坪井文子). His father, Hidemaro, registered his birth certificate at the East Ward (Higashiku) city hall in Osaka on 22 July 1937.Oono Kaoru (大野芳) "Konoe Hidemaro" (近衛秀麿) p.250 On 19 October 1939, he was adopted by the youngest brother of his father Tadamaro Miyagawa (水谷川忠麿) and he was renamed Tadatoshi (忠俊). His youngest memory was being in an atelier of Tadamaro in Sendagaya,

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and has no recollection of his real birth mother. While he was studying at the Gakushūin Elementary School they moved to

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and he went to the elementary school (co-ed) which is attached to the women University in Nara and he also finished junior high and high school at the same school. Upon graduating high school he moved back to

and became assistant to Naozumi Yamamoto who is a

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and conductor. In August 1962, he passed the exam to be a full scholarship student at the Madrid Royal Conservatory of Music in Spain.大野、p.390。 In 1963, he studied in the Berlin Municipal Conservatory of Music (which is now the

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, or UdK). His first daughter, Yoko, was born in Berlin, West Germany. In 1968, he returned to Japan just before his second daughter was born. His brother Hidetake Konoe is also a composer and conductor. His wife, Sakiko, is the daughter of viscount Suefusa Ano (阿野季房) from the Ano family of Northern

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. Sakiko was a classmate of his from the Gakushūin Elementary School in

where the children of the Imperial

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(

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) were educated. His oldest daughter, Yoko Miyagawa, is a violinist and his second daughter Yuko Miyagawa is a cellist.

Movies

Folk song

Summer Festival them song :fr:Matsumoto Bon Bon

TV drama music

*TBS "Yasubee's Ocean" (1969–1970) *Fuji TV "White Terror" (1975) *NHK "New Western circumstances (3) Miso soup fanatics go to Europe" (1977) *TV Tokyo "The Dangerous Evening that Wives Bought" (1988)

Ancestry

As a patrilineal descendant of the

, Miyagawa is a nephew of former Japanese Prime Minister Konoe Fumimaro, and is a first cousin once removed of both the former prime minister Hosokawa Morihiro and his brother

Tadateru Konoe is the former president of the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC). Tadateru Konoe is the 50th Head of the Konoe family. President of Japanese Red Cross Society since 2005, Tadateru Konoe has dedicated his ent ...

. By virtue of his descent from the Konoe family, he is related to the

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, being a descendant of

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References

*Ohno Yoshi "Konoe Hidemaro - A man who made a Japanese orchestra" Kodansha, 2006. {{DEFAULTSORT:Miyagawa, Tadatoshi 1935 births 20th-century classical composers 20th-century Japanese composers 20th-century Japanese male musicians Gagaku Japanese classical composers Japanese male classical composers Konoe family Living people