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Toru Takemitsu [1930-1996] Japanese
Rank: 105
Composer (with music)
Contemporary


Toru Takemitsu was a Japanese composer and writer on aesthetics and music theory. Largely self-taught, Takemitsu possessed consummate skill in the subtle manipulation of instrumental and orchestral timbre.

Music, Teacher



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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.
101
Although I am basically self taught, I consider Debussy my teacher - the most important elements are colour, light and shadow. Music, Teacher
102
Composition gives proper meaning to the natural streams of sound that penetrate the world.
103
Music is a form of prayer.
104
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.
105
Music should be able to invoke the natural emotions in all human beings. Music is not notes fixed on apiece of paper.
106
I probably belong to a type of composer of songs who keeps thinking about melody... I am old fashioned.
107

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