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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 960,387 page views. His biography is available in 15 different languages on Wikipedia (down from 16 in 2019). Toshi Ichiyanagi is the 962nd most popular composer (down from 817th in 2019), the 967th most popular biography from Japan (down from 849th in 2019) and the 11th most popular Japanese Composer.

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  • 15

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.80

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.61

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Among COMPOSERS

Among composers, Toshi Ichiyanagi ranks 962 out of 1,216. Before him are Karen Khachaturian, Walter Braunfels, Maximilian Steinberg, Nicola Vicentino, Patrick Doyle, and Pietro Filippo Scarlatti. After him are Friedrich Silcher, Peter Benoit, Harry Gregson-Williams, Alexander Goldenweiser, Jāzeps Vītols, and Ruperto Chapí.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1933, Toshi Ichiyanagi ranks 241. Before him are Siân Phillips, Ceija Stojka, Madhubala, Yang Chuan-kwang, Isao Iwabuchi, and Jean-Pierre Mocky. After him are Dianne Feinstein, Kerstin Ekman, Henry Darrow, Helmuth Rilling, Chen Jingrun, and C. Odumegwu Ojukwu. Among people deceased in 2022, Toshi Ichiyanagi ranks 226. Before him are Nick Bollettieri, Piet Schrijvers, Börje Salming, Pharoah Sanders, Mitchell Ryan, and Agostino Cacciavillan. After him are Philippe Streiff, Alice von Hildebrand, Muhammad Rafiq Tarar, Ernest Shonekan, Hans-Jürgen Dörner, and Anatoly Filipchenko.

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In Japan

Among people born in Japan, Toshi Ichiyanagi ranks 967 out of 6,048. Before him are Shinobu Hashimoto (1918), Isao Iwabuchi (1933), Sayako Kuroda (1969), Kiyoshi Atsumi (1928), Yuki Kajiura (1965), and Sadakazu Tanigaki (1945). After him are Hidetaka Nishiyama (1928), Sanpei Shirato (1932), Hidemaro Watanabe (1924), Ōmura Masujirō (1824), Nobuo Kawakami (1947), and Tatsumi Kimishima (1950).

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Among COMPOSERS In Japan

Among composers born in Japan, Toshi Ichiyanagi ranks 11. Before him are Miki Matsubara (1959), Shunsuke Kikuchi (1931), Keiko Abe (1937), Nobuo Uematsu (1959), Kenji Kawai (1957), and Akira Ifukube (1914). After him are Yasushi Akutagawa (1925), Fumio Hayasaka (1914), Koji Kondo (1961), Akira Yamaoka (1968), Hiroyuki Sawano (1980), and Junichi Masuda (1968).

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