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Toshi Ichiyanagi

1933 - 2022

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Toshi Ichiyanagi (一柳 慧, Ichiyanagi Toshi, 4 February 1933 – 7 October 2022) was a Japanese avant-garde composer and pianist. One of the leading composers in Japan during the postwar era, Ichiyanagi worked in a range of genres, composing Western-style operas and orchestral and chamber works, as well as compositions using traditional Japanese instruments. Ichiyanagi is known for incorporating avant-garde techniques into his works, such as chance music, extended technique, and nontraditional scoring. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Toshi Ichiyanagi has received more than 1,038,180 page views. His biography is available in 16 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 15 in 2019). Toshi Ichiyanagi is the 752nd most popular composer (up from 961st in 2019), the 838th most popular biography from Japan (up from 964th in 2019) and the 7th most popular Japanese Composer.

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  • 53.40

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 16

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.41

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.32

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among COMPOSERS

Among composers, Toshi Ichiyanagi ranks 752 out of 1,451. Before him are Franz Krommer, Augusta Holmès, Dave Grusin, Louise Bertin, Carlos Seixas, and Juan Bautista Cabanilles. After him are Johann Baptist Cramer, Gabriel Yared, Luis de Narváez, Boris Asafyev, Giacomo Antonio Perti, and Norbert Burgmüller.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1933, Toshi Ichiyanagi ranks 190. Before him are Dan Flavin, Isao Iwabuchi, Juan Marsé, Juan Sandoval Íñiguez, Josef Kadraba, and Allen J. Bard. After him are Mark Eyskens, Jerry Buss, Kamal Ganzouri, Dennis Viollet, Ilya Kabakov, and Stuart Roosa. Among people deceased in 2022, Toshi Ichiyanagi ranks 182. Before him are Anatoly Filipchenko, Carl, Duke of Württemberg, Kitten Natividad, Herman Van Springel, Joseph Delaney, and Ole Ellefsæter. After him are Marsha Hunt, Letizia Battaglia, Vlado Milunić, Franciszek Pieczka, Liz Sheridan, and Jack Higgins.

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In Japan

Among people born in Japan, Toshi Ichiyanagi ranks 838 out of 6,245. Before him are Goro Shimura (1930), Ashikaga Yoshikazu (1407), Toshio Miyaji (null), Sō Yoshitoshi (1568), Hitoshi Igarashi (1947), and Kōichi Kido (1889). After him are Ango Sakaguchi (1906), Mitsuo Tsukahara (1947), Inoue Kaoru (1836), Yasutaka Tsutsui (1934), Seiichi Sakiya (1950), and Kanji Ishiwara (1889).

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Among COMPOSERS In Japan

Among composers born in Japan, Toshi Ichiyanagi ranks 7. Before him are Ryuichi Sakamoto (1952), Ichirou Mizuki (1948), Toru Takemitsu (1930), Miki Matsubara (1959), Shunsuke Kikuchi (1931), and Kenji Kawai (1957). After him are Koichi Sugiyama (1931), Koji Kondo (1961), Keiko Abe (1937), Nobuo Uematsu (1959), Akira Ifukube (1914), and Yasushi Akutagawa (1925).

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