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Toru Takemitsu

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Film Score Composer

Japanese film score composer, known for his works in films such as 'Heaven and Hell' and 'Rashomon'. His musical style is unique, blending traditional Japanese music with modern Western elements, and has had a profound impact on the development of film music.

Confronting Silence: Selected Writings

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“Many contemporary composers have been building walls of sounds following their own clever devices. But then, who lives inside those rooms?”

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“Composition gives proper meaning to the natural streams of sound that penetrate the world.”

World Giving Sound Natural Streams Composition Penetrate

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“I probably belong to a type of composer of songs who keeps thinking about melody... I am old fashioned.”

Thinking Song Type Melody Composer Old Fashioned

Author:Toru Takemitsu

“Music is a form of prayer.”

Inspirational Form Prayer Music Is

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“The art music of the West has developed through out its history by means of individual geniuses, and out of the soil supporting them; non-Western musicians were born, and grew like the grasses of the field.”

Mean Art Individual Born Fields Grew Genius Musician West Western Grass Soil Art Music

Author:Toru Takemitsu

“My teachers are Duke Ellington and nature.”

Inspirational Teacher Dukes

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“I am a gardener of infinite time.”

Infinite Gardener Infinite Time

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“Although I am basically self taught, I consider Debussy my teacher - the most important elements are colour, light and shadow.”

Important Self Light Music Teacher Taught Elements Shadow Colour Light And Shadow Self Taught Debussy

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“I always want to write erotic music... Not only about the love between men and women, but in a much more universal sense - about the sensuality of the mechanism of the universe... about life.”

Men Want Writing Universe Love Is Men And Women Universal Sensuality Sensual Mechanism Erotic

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“Music should be able to invoke the natural emotions in all human beings. Music is not notes fixed on apiece of paper.”

Should Humans Able Natural Human Beings Emotion Paper Music Is Notes Fixed Invoke

Author:Toru Takemitsu

About the Author

Born: October 8, 1930
Died: February 20, 1996
Known for: Film Score Composer
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