was a Japanese composer.

Biography

He was born in Tokyo. Yashiro entered the Tokyo Music School (presently the

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) in 1945, where he studied composition under Saburo Moroi,

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, and piano under

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. Upon finishing graduate courses in 1951, he went to Europe with

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to study with a French governmental fellowship at

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. There he learned composition and orchestration from

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. He returned home in 1956. He received several prizes for his compositions, including the Eighth Mainichi Music Prize in 1957 for String Quartet, which he had written while studying abroad, and Sixteenth Otaka Prize and the Twenty-first National Art Festival Award in 1968 for his Piano Concerto (1964–1967) which was commissioned by NHK. In 1968, Yashiro was inaugurated as an assistant professor at his alma mater, and he was promoted to professor in 1974. He died suddenly of heart failure at the age of 46.

List of works

* 24 Preludes for piano (1945) * Sonatina for piano (1945) * Violin Sonata (1946) * Nocturne for piano (1947) * Piano Trio (1948) * Viola Sonata (1949) * Suite Classique for piano 4-hands (1951) * String Quartet (1955) * Symphony (1958) * Sonata for two flutes and piano (1958) * Cello Concerto (1960) * Piano Sonata (1961) *

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(1967) * Violin Concerto - unfinished

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and

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recorded his transcriptions on '' Japanese Folk Melodies'', CBS Records, (1978).

References

External links

Akio Yashiro biography at Naxos
1929 births 1976 deaths 20th-century classical composers 20th-century Japanese composers 20th-century Japanese male musicians Japanese classical composers Japanese male classical composers Tokyo Music School alumni Academic staff of Tokyo University of the Arts {{Japan-composer-stub