1930 - 1996
Tōru Takemitsu (武満 徹, pronounced [takeꜜmitsɯ̥ toːɾɯ]; 8 October 1930 – 20 February 1996) was a Japanese composer and writer on aesthetics and music theory. Largely self-taught, Takemitsu was admired for the subtle manipulation of instrumental and orchestral timbre. He is known for combining elements of oriental and occidental philosophy and for fusing sound with silence and tradition with innovation.He composed several hundred independent works of music, scored more than ninety films and published twenty books. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Toru Takemitsu has received more than 339,964 page views. His biography is available in 37 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 35 in 2019). Toru Takemitsu is the 346th most popular composer (up from 363rd in 2019), the 288th most popular biography from Japan (up from 327th in 2019) and the 2nd most popular Japanese Composer.
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Among composers, Toru Takemitsu ranks 346 out of 1,216. Before him are Frank Martin, Cipriano de Rore, Viktor Ullmann, Leroy Anderson, Vladimir Cosma, and Willem Mengelberg. After him are Karl Richter, Louis Marchand, Carl Loewe, Elmer Bernstein, Luigi Dallapiccola, and Johann Adam Reincken.
1890 - 1974
HPI: 58.95
Rank: 340
1515 - 1565
HPI: 58.88
Rank: 341
1898 - 1944
HPI: 58.85
Rank: 342
1908 - 1975
HPI: 58.85
Rank: 343
1940 - Present
HPI: 58.85
Rank: 344
1871 - 1951
HPI: 58.85
Rank: 345
1930 - 1996
HPI: 58.84
Rank: 346
1926 - 1981
HPI: 58.82
Rank: 347
1669 - 1732
HPI: 58.77
Rank: 348
1796 - 1869
HPI: 58.77
Rank: 349
1922 - 2004
HPI: 58.77
Rank: 350
1904 - 1975
HPI: 58.75
Rank: 351
1643 - 1722
HPI: 58.65
Rank: 352
Among people born in 1930, Toru Takemitsu ranks 93. Before him are James Irwin, Friedrich Gulda, Edgar Mitchell, Ed White, Frank Drake, and Choe Yong-rim. After him are Itamar Franco, Rod Taylor, Elza Soares, Barbara, Ornette Coleman, and Martin Karplus. Among people deceased in 1996, Toru Takemitsu ranks 65. Before him are Robert, Archduke of Austria-Este, Brigitte Helm, Albert R. Broccoli, Shūsaku Endō, František Plánička, and Nicu Ceaușescu. After him are Frida Boccara, Geoffrey Wilkinson, Leonor Fini, Mieczysław Weinberg, Michel Debré, and Obdulio Varela.
1930 - 1991
HPI: 59.32
Rank: 87
1930 - 2000
HPI: 59.28
Rank: 88
1930 - 2016
HPI: 58.99
Rank: 89
1930 - 1967
HPI: 58.98
Rank: 90
1930 - 2022
HPI: 58.93
Rank: 91
1930 - Present
HPI: 58.86
Rank: 92
1930 - 1996
HPI: 58.84
Rank: 93
1930 - 2011
HPI: 58.80
Rank: 94
1930 - 2015
HPI: 58.71
Rank: 95
1930 - 2022
HPI: 58.70
Rank: 96
1930 - 1997
HPI: 58.69
Rank: 97
1930 - 2015
HPI: 58.68
Rank: 98
1930 - Present
HPI: 58.56
Rank: 99
1915 - 1996
HPI: 58.99
Rank: 59
1906 - 1996
HPI: 58.95
Rank: 60
1909 - 1996
HPI: 58.90
Rank: 61
1923 - 1996
HPI: 58.90
Rank: 62
1904 - 1996
HPI: 58.86
Rank: 63
1951 - 1996
HPI: 58.85
Rank: 64
1930 - 1996
HPI: 58.84
Rank: 65
1940 - 1996
HPI: 58.83
Rank: 66
1921 - 1996
HPI: 58.61
Rank: 67
1907 - 1996
HPI: 58.58
Rank: 68
1919 - 1996
HPI: 58.39
Rank: 69
1912 - 1996
HPI: 58.30
Rank: 70
1917 - 1996
HPI: 58.19
Rank: 71
Among people born in Japan, Toru Takemitsu ranks 288 out of 6,048. Before him are Tameo Ide (1908), Yasuo Takamori (1934), Shūsaku Endō (1923), Emperor Yūryaku (418), Emperor Tsuchimikado (1196), and Empress Shōken (1849). After him are Emperor Monmu (683), Yosano Akiko (1878), Maeda Toshiie (1538), Saitō Hajime (1844), Sesshū Tōyō (1420), and Saionji Kinmochi (1849).
1908 - 1998
HPI: 58.94
Rank: 282
1934 - 2016
HPI: 58.91
Rank: 283
1923 - 1996
HPI: 58.90
Rank: 284
418 - 479
HPI: 58.87
Rank: 285
1196 - 1231
HPI: 58.86
Rank: 286
1849 - 1914
HPI: 58.86
Rank: 287
1930 - 1996
HPI: 58.84
Rank: 288
683 - 707
HPI: 58.83
Rank: 289
1878 - 1942
HPI: 58.80
Rank: 290
1538 - 1599
HPI: 58.75
Rank: 291
1844 - 1915
HPI: 58.72
Rank: 292
1420 - 1506
HPI: 58.70
Rank: 293
1849 - 1940
HPI: 58.66
Rank: 294
Among composers born in Japan, Toru Takemitsu ranks 2. Before him are Ryuichi Sakamoto (1952). After him are Koichi Sugiyama (1931), Ichirou Mizuki (1948), Miki Matsubara (1959), Shunsuke Kikuchi (1931), Keiko Abe (1937), Nobuo Uematsu (1959), Kenji Kawai (1957), Akira Ifukube (1914), Toshi Ichiyanagi (1933), and Yasushi Akutagawa (1925).
1952 - Present
HPI: 61.34
Rank: 1
1930 - 1996
HPI: 58.84
Rank: 2
1931 - 2021
HPI: 57.34
Rank: 3
1948 - 2022
HPI: 57.05
Rank: 4
1959 - 2004
HPI: 54.36
Rank: 5
1931 - 2021
HPI: 53.70
Rank: 6
1937 - Present
HPI: 52.55
Rank: 7
1959 - Present
HPI: 51.27
Rank: 8
1957 - Present
HPI: 50.11
Rank: 9
1914 - 2006
HPI: 50.02
Rank: 10
1933 - 2022
HPI: 49.82
Rank: 11
1925 - 1989
HPI: 49.16
Rank: 12