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Akira Ifukube (伊福部 昭 Ifukube Akira, 31 May 1914 – 8 February 2006) was a Japanese composer of classical music and film scores, perhaps best known for his work on the soundtracks of the Godzilla movies. May 31 is the 151st day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (152nd in leap years), with 214 days remaining. ...
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Classical music is a broad, somewhat imprecise term, referring to music produced in, or rooted in the traditions of, European art, ecclesiastical and concert music, encompassing a broad period from roughly 1000 to the present day. ...
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Akira Ifukube was born on May 31, 1914 in Kushiro on the Japanese island of Hokkaido, the third son of a Shinto priest. Much of his childhood was spent in areas with a mixed Japanese and Ainu population, and his father, unusually for the time, socialised with Ainu. Ifukube was strongly influenced by the musical traditions of both peoples, and studied the violin and the shamisen. While attending secondary school in Hokkaido's capital, Sapporo, he fist encountered classical music, and legend has it that Ifukube decided to become a composer at the age of 14 after hearing a radio performance of Igor Stravinsky's Rite of Spring, and he also cites the music of Manuel de Falla as a major influence. May 31 is the 151st day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (152nd in leap years), with 214 days remaining. ...
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Kushiro (釧路市; -shi) is a city located in Kushiro, Hokkaido, Japan. ...
Hokkaido â–¶ (help· info) (åŒ—æµ·é“ HokkaidÅ, literal meaning: North Sea Route, Ainu: Mosir), formerly known as Ezo, is the second largest island and largest prefecture of Japan. ...
A torii at Itsukushima Shrine Shinto (Kanji: ç¥žé“ ShintÅ) (sometimes called Shintoism) is a native religion of Japan and was once its state religion. ...
The Ainu (pronounced , eye-noo, アイヌ / aynu) are an ethnic group indigenous to Hokkaido, the northern part of Honshu in Northern Japan, the Kuril Islands, much of Sakhalin, and the southernmost third of the Kamchatka peninsula. ...
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Manuel de Falla y Matheu (November 23, 1876 – November 14, 1946) was a Spanish composer of classical music. ...
Despite this, Ifukube went on to study forestry at Hokkaido University while starting to compose in his spare time, prefiguring a line of self-taught Japanese composers such as Toru Takemitsu and Takashi Yoshimatsu. His first piece was the piano solo Bon Odori Suite, and his big break came in 1935, when his first orchestral piece, Japanese Rhapsody, won first prize in an international contest for young composers promoted by Alexander Tcherepnin. The next year, Ifukube studied modern western composition while Tcherepnin was visiting Japan, and in 1938 his Piano Suite obtained an honourable mention at I.C.S.M. festival in Venice. In the late 1930s his music, especially Japanese Rhapsody, was performed in Europe on a number of occasions. A decidous beech forest in Slovenia. ...
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On completing University, he worked as a forestry officer and lumber processor, and towards the end of the Second World War was appointed by the Japanese Imperial Army to study the elasticity and vibratory strength of wood, and suffered radiation exposure as a consequence of carrying out x-rays without protection, a consequence of the wartime lead shortage. As a consequence, he had to abandon forestry work, becoming a professional composer and teacher. He spent some time in the hospital due to the radiation exposure, and was startled one day to hear one of his own marches being played over the radio when General Douglas MacArthur arrived to formalize the Japanese surrender. Mushroom cloud from the nuclear explosion over Nagasaki rising 18 km into the air. ...
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From 1946 to 1953 he taught at the Nihon University College of Art, during which period he composed his first film score, the 1947 The End of the Silver Mountains. Over the next fifty years, he would compose more than 250 film scores, the high point of which was his 1954 music for Godzilla. Ifukube also created Godzilla's trademark roar - produced by rubbing a resin-covered leather glove along the loosened strings of a double bass - and its footsteps, created by striking an amplifier box. 1946 (MCMXLVI) was a common year starting on Tuesday. ...
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Side and front views of a modern double bass with a French bow. ...
Despite his financial success as a film composer, Ifukube's first love had always been his general classical work as a composer.
In 1974, he returned to teaching at the Tokyo College of Music, becoming president of the college the following year, and in 1987 'retired' to become president of the College's ethnomusicology department. He also published Orchestration, a 1,000-page book on theory. The Japanese government had awarded him the Order of Culture and the Order of the Sacred Treasures. 1974 (MCMLXXIV) is a common year starting on Tuesday (click on link for calendar). ...
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Ethnomusicology (from the Greek ethnos = nation and mousike = music), formerly comparative musicology, is the study of music in its cultural context, cultural musicology. ...
The Order of Culture (æ–‡åŒ–å‹²ç« ) is a Japanese Order (decoration), established on February 11, 1937. ...
The Order of the Sacred Treasures (ç‘žå®ç« ) is a Japanese Order (decoration), established on January 4, 1888 by Emperor Meiji of Japan. ...
He died in Tokyo at the Meguro-Ku Hospital of multiple organ failure February 8, 2006. He was 91.
External links
- Information about his death in Japanese
- Akira Ifukube information page
- Blastitude magazine article on Ifukube and other Japanese film composers
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