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Isotaro Sugata
12+ albums
japanesecontemporary classicalinstrumentalClassicalcomposer
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Isotaro Sugata (Japanese: 須賀田礒太郎; Yokohama, 15 November 1907 – Tanuma, Tochigi, 5 July 1952) was a Japanese composer. Sugata received his education with missionaries in Kanto Gakuin University. There he was influenced by listening to hymns and received lessons for piano, violin, music theory and singing. In 1927 he acquired tuberculosis and then concentrated solely on his composition studies. From 1928 he studied with Kosaku Yamada and Kiyoshi Nobutoki, who had studied in Berlin. Nobutoki taught him music theory in the German tradition. In 1931 he began studies with Meiro Sugahara, who believed that German music was not a good model for Japanese composers who wanted to compose in Western style with Japanese sensibility, on the principles of Gagaku, Buddhist music and Kabuki music. He considered French, Italian and Russian music more appropriate for the Japanese mentality, because it offers more flexible sounds by using Whole tone and Japanese scales. Sugahara gave the advice to Sugata that it would would be better for him to study the works of Japanese composers such as Shiro Fukai than those of Claude Debussy, Maurice Ravel, Igor Stravinsky, Ottorino Respighi and Darius Milhaud. As a result, Sugata wrote two major orchestral works in a style that can be described as "Oriental Stravinsky", namely "Yokohama" (1932) and "Symphonic Fantasia" SAKURA "(Cherry Blossoms)" (1933). In 1933 he returned to German-tinted music and studied with Klaus Pringsheim Sr., a teacher in the ne
top songs
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The Rhythm of Life, Op. 25: II. Andante - Moderato scherzando
3742Peaceful Dance of 2 Dragons, Op. 8: I. Jo
423Peaceful Dance of 2 Dragons, Op. 8: II. Ha
404Sketches of the Desert, Op. 10: IV. Dancing Girl in the Orient
355Symphonic Overture, Op. 6
326The Rhythm of Life, Op. 25: I. Misterioso
287Peaceful Dance of 2 Dragons, Op. 8: III. Kyu
268The Rhythm of Life, Op. 25: III. Lento
249I. Misterioso
510III. Lento
5albums
Sugata: Symphonic Overture / Peaceful Dance of 2 Dragons / The Rhythm of Life
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Symphonic Overture and other works
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Peaceful Dance Of Two Dragons, The Rhythm Of Life
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Album
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Peaceful Dance of Two Dragons (Komatsu - 2006)
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Peaceful dance of two dragons, op. 8 - Komatsu, Kanagawa Philharmonic Orchestra
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- Komatsu, Kanagawa Philharmonic Orchestra
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The Rhythm of Life (Komatsu - 2006)
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Symphonic overture, op. 6 - Komatsu, Kanagawa Philharmonic Orchestra
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Sketches of the desert, op. 10 - Komatsu, Kanagawa Philharmonic Orchestra
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Sketches of the Desert (Komatsu - 2006)
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Symphonic Overture (Komatsu - 2006)