Hiromori Hayashi
Illustration — Hiromori Hayashi 28 December 1831 – 5 March 1896 was a Japanese composer credited with composing the Japanese national anthem "Kimigayo".
Hiromori Hayashi
共益商社書店編輯部 編『皇国五大音楽家肖像額画: 音楽鑑賞用』,共益商社書店,昭和16. 国立国会図書館デジタルコレクション https: dl.ndl.go.jp/pid/1015703/1/3 (参照 2023-01-19) · Public domain
- Born
- 1831. · Reinin-chō.
- Died
- 1896.
- Nationality
- Japan.
- Occupation
- composer.
- Fields
- gagaku.
- Known for
- Kimigayo.
- Languages
- Japanese.
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Illustration — Hiromori Hayashi 28 December 1831 – 5 March 1896 was a Japanese composer credited with composing the Japanese national anthem "Kimigayo".
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He held several positions in the royal court starting in his youth. He moved to Tokyo after the Meiji Restoration and in 1875 helped carry out 1875 orders to fuse Western musical theory with Japanese theory. The final version of the anthem was first played for Emperor Meiji for his birthday, on 3 November 1880. Sources conflict over who composed the music. Historian Emiko Ohnuki-Tierney writes, "The composer is nominally identified as Hayashi Hiromori, a musician at the Imperial Court, but Oku Yoshiisa, who worked under Hayashi, is believed to have composed the music, with some rearrangement by Franz Eckert (1852–1916)." The melody that Hayashi was credited for replaced an arrangement by John William Fenton, a British military band leader, that was rejected in 1870. The Court then adopted a new melody composed by Yoshiisa Oku and Akimori Hayashi. The composer is often listed as Hiromori Hayashi, who was their supervisor and Akimori's father. Akimori was also one of Fenton's pupils. The German musician Franz Eckert applied the melody with Western-style harmony.
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1896
Hiromori Hayashi died.
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- 1.Sources give 1821, 1830, and 1831.
- 2.Some sources give 1886.
- 3.Dates given are published in the Library of Congress catalog.
- 4.Chizuko Izawa, Nobuo Ohta (2005). Human learning and memory: advances in theory and application : the 4th Tsukuba International Conference on Memory. Routledge,
- 5.Jun Hongo (July 17, 2007). Hinomaru, 'Kimigayo' express conflicts both past and future. Japan Times
- 6.Emiko Ohnuki-Tierney (2002). Kamikaze, cherry blossoms, and nationalisms: the militarization of aesthetics in Japanese history. University of Chicago Press,
- 7.Colin Joyce. Briton who gave Japan its anthem. Telegraph.co.uk. Published by Telegraph Media Group Limited. 2005-08-30.
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