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Post by kaonashi on Sept 28, 2014 7:19:14 GMT -6
Kunihiko or Qunihico Hashimoto (September 14, 1904 – May 6, 1949) was a Japanese composer, violinist, conductor, and musical educator.
I haven't heard too many pieces of this composer but Allegretto from Symphony No. 1 (1940) is a masterpiece.
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Post by Ostinato on Sept 28, 2014 10:18:22 GMT -6
I have to agree there!
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Post by anahata on Oct 19, 2014 5:23:12 GMT -6
I hate to be the spoiler here but having heard Hashimoto's Symphony No. 1 & Symphony No. 2, I can't rate him as highly as I do other 20th Century Japanese composers. Why? Well, there's no doubt that his music is big, pretty, and romantic. It's well done but it lacks that dissonant modernist edge that I've come to love from Ikuma Dan and Mayuzumi and Takemitsu. Hashimoto's influence comes from 19th Century Europe more than 20th Century Japan, which is fine for what it is, but which isn't what I am looking for in a Japanese composer from this era.
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Post by Ostinato on Oct 19, 2014 12:00:35 GMT -6
I agree with you there.
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