Kosaku Yamada
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KÅsaku Yamada was a Japanese composer and conductor born on June 9, 1886, in Tokyo. He studied at the Tokyo Music School from 1904 and continued his training in Germany at the Prussian Academy of Arts under Max Bruch and Karl Leopold Wolf in 1910. Following his return to Japan in 1913, he traveled to the United States in 1918, where he conducted a temporary orchestra of New York Philharmonic and New York Symphony members in Manhattan. Yamada composed roughly 1,600 pieces, including Triumph and Peace in 1912, which was the first complete four-movement symphony in Japan. His most famous song, "Akatombo", was written in 1927. As a conductor, he introduced Western orchestral music to Japan, leading the national premieres of works by Debussy, DvoÅák, and Shostakovich. He also composed the opera Kurofune in 1940 and competed in the 1936 Summer Olympics art competition. Yamada died on December 29, 1965, in Tokyo.
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- The Tale of Tsar Saltan: The Flight of the Bumble-Bee (Act III) featuring Academy of St Martin in the Fields
