Shigeaki Saegusa

Emerging from Japan, Saegusa launched his compositional career with early chamber pieces such as a wind quintet in 1963, later expanding into orchestral and vocal forms. He achieved lasting recognition through the opera Chushingura, a ten-year project based on the Forty-seven Ronin saga, which was recorded in 1997 and staged at Tokyo’s New National Theatre in 2002. His output also includes the ora… Read more

Biography written by WatchMoods, based on public sources