Hisato Ohzawa

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Hisato Ohzawa
大澤壽人
Hyogo Prefecture, Empire of Japan
DiedOctober 28, 1953(1953-10-28) (aged 46)
Tokyo, Japan
Occupationcomposer

Hisato Ohzawa (大澤壽人, Ōzawa Hisato) (August 1, 1907—October 28, 1953)[1] was a Japanese composer. Renewed interest in his work reflects the view that he was one of the preeminent Japanese composers of his day.[2]

Biography

One of the foremost Japanese composers of the first half of the twentieth century,

Paris
and continued his studies, composing his Second Symphony and his Second Piano Concerto.

He returned to

film music
.

After the

Second World War, Ohzawa taught at the Kobe College (Kobe Jogakuin Daigaku 神戸女学院大学). He composed light music, jazzy concertos for saxophone and trumpet, created an orchestra, and hosted his own radio show featuring the orchestra, which featured popular classics, as well as more modern works by such composers as Igor Stravinsky, Arnold Schoenberg and Dmitri Shostakovich
. He aimed to write a Fourth Symphony, but was stopped by his death, leaving only the title page.

Works

  • Piano Trio in D minor (1932)
  • Cello Sonata in G minor (1932)
  • Sinfonietta (1932)
  • Sonatine in E Minor, for piano (1933)
  • Piano Quintet in C minor (1933)
  • String Quartet in A minor (1933)
  • Piano Concerto No. 1 in A minor (1933)
  • Six Capriccietti, for piano (1934)
  • Les Petis Dessins, for piano (1934)
  • Three Pastoral Movements "Sons of the Earth", for orchestra (1934)
  • Symphony No. 1 (1934)
  • Double Bass Concerto (1934) - dedicated to Sergei Koussevitzky
  • Symphony No. 2 (1934)
  • Piano Concerto No. 2 (1935)
  • Trio for oboe, clarinet and bassoon (1935)
  • Les fragments de la ruelle, for orchestra (1935)
  • Petite messe, pour chœur et orchestre (1935)
  • Violin Concertino "To a Chinese Poem" (1936)
  • Symphony No. 3 (1937)
  • Trois morceaux de primtemps "Teichu", for piano (1937)
  • Piano Concerto No. 3 "Kamikaze"
    (1938)
  • Dawn of the Sea, cantata (1940)
  • Festive Music for the Nation, cantata (1940)
  • Sakura Fantasy for piano and orchestra (1946)
  • Saxophone Concerto (1947)
  • Pegasus Rhapsody for saxophone, piano, and orchestra (1949)
  • Trumpet Concerto (1950)
  • Festive Music Celebrating One Thousand Two Hundredth Year of the Great Buddha (1952)

Recordings

Naxos Records
' "Japanese Classics" series released two discs of his music: one containing the Piano Concerto No. 3 and Symphony No. 3, another containing Piano Concerto No. 2 and Symphony No. 2. [4]

In 2018 Nippon Columbia published a double CD, "The Art of Hisato Ohzawa" including the Double Bass Concerto (soloist Nakako Sano), the Piano Concerto No. 3 "Kamikaze" (soloist Kotaro Fukuma), and the Symphony No. 1, with the Japan Philharmonic Orchestra, conducted by Kazuki Yamada (Public concert at Suntory Hall on September 3, 2017). [5]

References

  1. ^ Prologue (Life and Career - Hisato Osawa)
  2. ^ "Discography – 大澤壽人 煌きの軌跡". osawa-project.org. Retrieved 2023-05-01.
  3. ^ https://www.naxos.com/CatalogueDetail/?id=8.557416
  4. ^ https://www.naxos.com/CatalogueDetail/?id=8.557416
  5. ^ https://columbia.jp/prod-info/COCQ-85424-5/

External links

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