Ikenouchi Tomojirō
池内 友次郎
Composer - Lehrer
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Tomojirō Ikenouchi (October 21, 1906 - March 9, 1991) was a Japanese composer, music educator, and haiku poet. He studied harmony with Stefan Lubienski, a Polish exile, but he so disliked Hugo Lehmann's textbook on harmony and counterpoint, which had a strong German flavor, that he dropped out of Keio University and went to France with Kosuke Komatsu in 1927. In October of the same year, he entered the Conservatoire de Paris (becoming the first Japanese student to do so). He studied under Fauchet, Büsser, and others, and worked hard to absorb compositional techniques. Returning to Japan ten years later, he worked briefly for Columbia, Japan Broadcasting Corporation, and Daiei, and then devoted himself to writing and translating mainly theoretical works and teaching younger students. In 1974, he retired from Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music, where he became professor emeritus. 1962, he received the Chevalier de la Legion d'Honneur, and in 1977, the Order of the Rising Sun, Gold Rays with Rosette. 1986, he was awarded the Order of Cultural Merit. In 1991, he passed away due to a brain hemorrhage. Ikenouchi brought French composition techniques back to Japan, and contributed to raising the level of composition and music education in postwar Japan as an educator. He is the author of numerous translations and books, mainly on music theory, and produced numerous composers under his tutelage. Although he left behind some creative works, including sonatinas and string quartets, he devoted himself almost exclusively to music education from the late 1950s onward.
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Miyashita Susumu 1941 - |