MUSIC FROM JAPAN COMPOSER PROFILE

Mr. Yasushi Akutagawa

 
Birthplace:                            Tabata, Tokyo
 


Award:                                 1st Prize
                                       NHK Music Contest
Year:                                  1949
Award:                                 Japan Film Music Award
Award:                                 Salzburg Opera Prize
Award:                                 Warswaw Music Festival
                                       Composition
Award:                                 Torii Ongaku
Award:                                 Nippon Academy Award
Award:                                 Blue Ribbon Music Award
Studies:                               Tokyo Academy of Music

Article/Review:                        R
Publication:                           WP. TS, WT
Date Pub.:                             4/15/86
Reaction (Positive/Negative/neUtral:   U
Compositions on file:
Concerto Ostinato per V'cello ed Orchestra,1969
Music for Symphony Orchestra,1950
Orpheus in Hiroshima,1967
Sounds for organ & orch.,1986
Triptyque, 3 Movements for Strings,1953