MATSUDAIRA, YORITSUNE (1907 - 2001)
Peter Maxwell Davies
On his father's side a descendant of the Tokugawa Shogun family, who ruled over
Japan from the17th to the 19th century, and on his mother's from the Fujiwara
family, who were the most powerful Japanese court nobility from the 7th to the12th
century, Yoritsune...
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Peter Maxwell Davies
On his father's side a descendant of the Tokugawa Shogun family, who ruled over
Japan from the17th to the 19th century, and on his mother's from the Fujiwara
family, who were the most powerful Japanese court nobility from the 7th to the12th
century, Yoritsune Matsudaira became one of the greatest Japanese composers of
the 20th century, by developing a distinctive style of his own, based on Gagaku,
Japanese court music from a tradition of over a thousand years, in which various
musical elements from ancient Japan, China and Korea are brought together. His
work Theme and Variations combines Gagaku with the neo-classical
methods of Ravel, Poulenc and Tansman, while his later works, including Sacred
Dances, seek to integrate Gagaku with the total serialism of Stockhausen and
Boulez. His music, a synthesis of the ancient Orient and the modern Occident,
won the respect of Messiaen and Takemitsu, and has been performed in Europe by
many distinguished musicians, including Karajan, Rosbaud, Boulez, Maderna, Gielen,
Loriod and Gazzelloni.
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