was a Japanese composer.''Japan Manchoukuo year book'' 1934 "Hirota, Ryutaro — Musician; b. June, 1892 in Kochi-ken; s. of Seiio Hirota, educator; m. Yuriko, d. of Saburo Takayasu. Career: grad., Tokyo Academy of Music; appointed Asst. Prof., same; was sent to Berlin for study of; piano and composition.." Hirota was born in

Aki, Kōchi Aki City Hall Aerial view of Aki city center is a city located in Kōchi Prefecture, Japan. , the city had an estimated population of 16,370 in 8076 households and a population density of 52 persons per km2. The total area of the city is . Ge ...

Works, editions and recordings

*''Komoro-naru kojo no hotori'' (小諸なる古城のほとり "In the old castle in Komoro") Recording Kazumichi Ohno (tenor), Kyosuke Kobayashi (piano) *"Hamachidori" (Beach

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Jean-Pierre Rampal Jean-Pierre Louis Rampal (7 January 1922 – 20 May 2000) was a French flautist. Rampal popularised the flute in the post–World War II years, recovering flute compositions from the Baroque era, and spurring contemporary composers, ...

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flute The flute is a member of a family of musical instruments in the woodwind group. Like all woodwinds, flutes are aerophones, producing sound with a vibrating column of air. Flutes produce sound when the player's air flows across an opening. In th ...

), Ensemble Lunaire. ''Japanese Folk Melodies'' transcribed by Akio Yashiro, CBS Records, 1978.

References

1892 births 1952 deaths 20th-century Japanese composers Musicians from Kōchi Prefecture People from Aki, Kōchi {{Japan-composer-stub