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Person · Open Library
- Works
- 5
Top works
- Mai-Bataraki Ii, Alto Flute
- Projection II
- Projection Topologic
- Clarinet Solitude
- A Winter Day
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Film & TV
Koriyama, Fukushima, Japan
Known for
- Discovery of Image – The Era of Toshio Matsumoto2017
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- Listeners
- 7,694
- Total plays
- 31,759
Tags
electronicAvant-Gardecontemporary classicaljapaneseexperimental
Born in 1929 in Koriyama, Japan, Joji Yuasa is a self-taught composer. He first became interested in music in his boyhood. Yuasa made the acquaintance of Toru Takemitsu (composer), Kuniharu Akiyama (musicologist) and others while a pre-medical student at Keio University in Tokyo. He joined them in forming the "Jikken-kobo" (Experimental Workshop) in 1952, and turned to devote himself to music. Since then, Yuasa has been actively engaged in a wide range of musical composition <a href="https:
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- George
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- Japan
- Place of birth
- Kōriyama
- Place of death
- Tokyo
- Occupation
- draftsperson
- Employer
- Toho Gakuen School of Music
- Languages spoken
- Japanese
- Image
- Joji Yuasa cropped Joji Yuasa 201411.jpg
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- date of birth
- 1929-08-12
- name in kana
- ゆあさ じょうじ
- name in native language
- 湯浅譲二
- Commons category
- Jōji Yuasa
- has works in the collection
- Museum of Modern Art
- start of work period
- 1952-00-00
- floruit
- 2014-01-01
- date of death
- 2024-07-24
- manner of death
- natural causes
- cause of death
- pneumonia
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