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Kōsaku Yamada

Kōsaku Yamada was recorded as conductor, composer, musicologist and musician.

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Kosaku Yamada

Japanese magazine "The Mainichi Graphic, 18 March 1956 issue" published by The Mainichi Newspapers Co.,Ltd. · Public domain

Biography

Kōsaku Yamada is recorded as conductor, composer, musicologist and musician.

Kōsaku Yamada studied at Tokyo Academy of Music. Training under Leopold Carl Wolf is recorded. The recorded working language is Japanese.

Subjects and genres recorded for the work are opera and symphony.

Employment is recorded with Soai University.

Works named in the authority record are National Anthem of the State/Empire of Manchukuo.

Distinctions recorded are Order of Culture, Legion of Honour and Person of Cultural Merit.

Bain News Service,, publisher. Vanada [between ca. 1915 and ca. 1920] 1 negative : glass ; 5 x 7 in. or smaller.

Bain News Service,, publisher. Vanada [between ca. 1915 and ca. 1920] 1 negative : glass ; 5 x 7 in. or smaller.

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Catalogued output

Works

Their recorded dates run from 1908 to 1976.

  • Rhapsody of Youth

  • Nagauta Symphony

  • The Daughter of the Samurai

  • Kono Michi

  • Overture in D major

  • Machibōke

  • Akatombo

  • Kurofune

  • Wakayama Kenminka

    1948

  • Kagoshima Kenmin no Uta

    1948

  • Nishinomiya Shika

    1946

  • Ochitaru ten'nyo

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  • Rhapsody of Youth

  • Nagauta Symphony

  • The Daughter of the Samurai

  • Kono Michi

  • Overture in D major

  • Machibōke

  • Akatombo

  • Kurofune

  • Wakayama Kenminka

    1948

  • Kagoshima Kenmin no Uta

    1948

  • Nishinomiya Shika

    1946

  • Ochitaru ten'nyo

  • Seiha ni susumu wakaki Shihi

  • Ageyo Hinomaru

  • Moyuru Ōzora

  • Ayame

  • Wakaki Matsue

  • Maria Magdalena (choreographic symphony)

  • Jiden harukanari seishun no shirabe

  • Yamada Kōsaku chosaku zenshū

  • Sekai ongaku zenshū

  • Kakyoku no tsukurikata

  • Waseigaku, sakkyōkuhō

  • Ongaku-dokuhon

A further 6 recorded entries stand behind this article and are held on the record.

Dated record

Life and career

Explore 1886–1965

  1. 1886

    Life

    Kōsaku Yamada born at Tokyo City.

  2. 1908

    Publication

    Sei-ei (Collection of Designs), volume 13, Published by Unsodo, dated 1908, held by The Art Institute of Chicago.

  3. 1946

    Nishinomiya Shika is dated 1946.

  4. 1948

    Kagoshima Kenmin no Uta is dated 1948.

  5. 1948

    Wakayama Kenminka is dated 1948.

  6. 1965

    Life

    Kōsaku Yamada died at Tokyo.

The full dated record · 6 entries

  1. 1886

    Kōsaku Yamada born at Tokyo City.

  2. 1908

    Sei-ei (Collection of Designs), volume 13, Published by Unsodo, dated 1908, held by The Art Institute of Chicago.

  3. 1946

    Nishinomiya Shika is dated 1946.

  4. 1948

    Kagoshima Kenmin no Uta is dated 1948.

  5. 1948

    Wakayama Kenminka is dated 1948.

  6. 1965

    Kōsaku Yamada died at Tokyo.

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Places

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  • Tokyo
Death or burial
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  • Tokyo City

    Birth place

Primary material

Documents and archives

scholarly publication

Institutional database

reference work

Literature

Bibliography

Modernity, Regionality, and Twentieth-Century Symphony: On Jean Sibelius and Yamada Kōsaku, Musik und Klangkultur, 2019.

  • Yamada, Kōsaku, Oxford Music Online, 2001

  • Kōsaku Yamada, “Inno Meiji” Symphony, 2

  • Kōsaku Yamada, “Inno Meiji” Symphony, 3

  • Kōsaku Yamada, “Inno Meiji” Symphony, 1

Citations

References

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