Koyama Kiyoshige
小山 清茂
2/15/1914 - 6/6/2009
Composer
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Kiyoshi Koyama was born in Nagano Prefecture in 1914. His composition teachers included Kornei Abe, a student of composer/conductor Klaus Pringsheim, and Tomojiro Ikenouchi. He didn't turn to composing music until he was almost 30, and although he was strongly nationalistic and influenced by such figures as his contemporary Akira Ifukube, whose work was heavily based on traditional material, Koyama's musical voice didn't emerge until after Japan's imperialist period was over. Known in the postwar era for such works as Shinano-bayashi for Orchestra (1946), Koyama went on to become one of the leading musical figures of his generation, composing one opera, Sanshyo-Dayu, and numerous orchestral works, including the symphonic suite Masque of Noh Play during the 1950s, Hinauta No. 1 for Orchestra and Hinauta No. 2 for Orchestra in the 1970s, as well as pieces for solo piano and chamber ensemble. One of Koyama's most popular and successful works was Kobiki-uta (A Woodcutter's Song), a hauntingly beautiful piece for orchestra, with a striking part for cello. It was derived from a traditional woodcutter's work song heard in Kyushu, western Japan, and the 1957 vintage work is a hybrid mixing Japanese folk sources, timbres, and textures with the shape and substance of western orchestral music traditions. At the outset of the new century, Koyama's work retained its following in Japan, with leading conductors and orchestra performing his music.
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Komponiert oder Arrangiert
| Shakuhachi Kompositionen | |||
| Titel | Kanji | Jahr | Alternativer Titel |
| Ubusuna | うぶすな |
1962 |
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| Wagakki no Tame no Shijusokyoku | 和楽器のための四重奏曲 |
1962 |
Quartet for Japanese instruments |
| Okume - Okiku | 1963 |
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| Waggaki no Tame no Gassokyoku | 和楽器のための合奏曲 |
1964 |
Ensemble piece for Japanese instruments |
| Urashima Taro Kodomo no Yume | 1965 |
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| Fudo Yonsho | 風土四章 |
1966 |
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| Wagakki no Tame no Shijusokyoku Dai Niban | 和楽器のための四重奏曲第二番 |
1968 |
Quartet for Japanese instruments no.2 |
| Wagakki no Tame no Gojusokyoku | 和楽器のための五重奏曲 |
1973 |
Quintet for Japanese instruments |
| Wagakki no Tame no Hensokyoku | 和楽器のための変奏曲 |
1978 |
Variations for Japanese instruments |
| Nenyamonya Hensokyoku | ねにゃもにゃ変奏曲 |
1985 |
Variations Nenyamonya |