Atsutada Otaka
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Atsutada Otaka (尾高 惇忠; 10 March 1944 – 16 February 2021) was a Japanese composer and musicologist. He studied at the
Tokyo University of the Arts or is a school of art and music in Japan. Located in Ueno Park, it also has facilities in Toride, Ibaraki, Yokohama, Kanagawa, Kitasenju and Adachi, Tokyo. The university has trained artists in the fields of painting, sculpture, crafts, inter ...
with Tomojirō Ikenouchi,
Akio Yashiro was a Japanese composer. Biography He was born in Tokyo. Yashiro entered the Tokyo Music School (presently the Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music) in 1945, where he studied composition under Saburo Moroi, Kunihiko Hashimoto, Tom ...
, and Akira Miyoshi. After studying in Paris, he became a professor at the
Tokyo University of the Arts or is a school of art and music in Japan. Located in Ueno Park, it also has facilities in Toride, Ibaraki, Yokohama, Kanagawa, Kitasenju and Adachi, Tokyo. The university has trained artists in the fields of painting, sculpture, crafts, inter ...
. He has written works for various genres. Some of his works have been recorded on CD and are also known in countries outside of Japan. Otaka died on 16 February 2021, aged 76 years.


Major works

* ''Image'' for orchestra (1981) * ''Rhapsody'' for piano (1983, revised 2006) * String Quartet (1986) * ''Ballade'' pour piano (1991) * ''Portrait'' for orchestra (1993) * ''Fantasy'' for organ and orchestra (1999) * Symphony, "''Au-delà du temps''" (2011) * ''de la MER musicale'': 12 pieces pour piano (2016) * Piano Concerto (2016) * Cello Concerto (2018)


References

1944 births 2021 deaths Academic staff of Tokyo University of the Arts Composers from Tokyo Japanese classical composers Japanese contemporary classical composers Japanese male classical composers Japanese musicologists Place of death missing Tokyo University of the Arts alumni Writers from Tokyo {{Japan-bio-stub