Tōru Takemitsu
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Born in Tokyo and raised for a time in Dalian, Takemitsu pursued music largely on his own, receiving only a brief apprenticeship with Yasuji Kiyose before establishing a self-directed compositional path. He co-founded the avant-garde collective Jikken Kōbō in the early 1950s, helping introduce Western modernist ideas to Japanese audiences, and served as assistant to film composer Fumio Hayasaka, w…
Biography written by WatchMoods, based on public sources
