was a Japanese composer of

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and professor.

Biography

Tomojiro Ikenouchi was born in Tokyo as son of a haiku poet Kyoshi Takahama. He traveled to Paris in 1927, where he studied composition with Henri Büsser and piano with Lazare Lévy. His music is influenced by French

Impressionist music Impressionism in music was a movement among various composers in Western classical music (mainly during the late 19th and early 20th centuries) whose music focuses on mood and atmosphere, "conveying the moods and emotions aroused by the subject ...

. He returned to Japan in 1933. Ikenouchi taught 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 ...

beginning in 1947. His notable students include Isang Yun, Toshi Ichiyanagi, Toshiro Mayuzumi,

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, Shin-ichiro Ikebe,

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, Akira Miyoshi,

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, Kōhei Tanaka,

Teizo Matsumura Teizo Matsumura (松村禎三 ''Matsumura Teizō''; 15 January 1929 – 6 August 2007) was a Japanese composer and poet. Orphaned and suffering from tuberculosis, during his recovery in the early 1950s he began to write both haiku and music. He ...

, Masato Uchida and Ryohei Hirose. Along with several of his students, he formed the Shinshin Kai group in 1955. His works are published by Ongaku-no-Tomo Sha. His granddaughter is cellist,

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References

* Cooper, Kristina Reiko (2001). "Tomojiro Ikenouchi and His Influences." DMA dissertation. The Juilliard School
Aspen: profile of Cooper, Kristina Reiko
1906 births 1991 deaths 20th-century classical composers 20th-century Japanese composers 20th-century Japanese male musicians Conservatoire de Paris alumni Japanese classical composers Japanese male classical composers Keio University alumni Musicians from Tokyo Recipients of the Legion of Honour {{Japan-writer-stub