Hiroshi Miyagawa

Hiroshi Miyagawa (1931-2006) was a Japanese composer, arranger and pianist, born in Rumoi, Hokkaido. He came from jazz and pop and wrote hit songs for The Peanuts in the 1960s. He is best known for the music of the anime Space Battleship Yamato (1974), whose theme and score he kept developing through the sequels and films of the series. Miyagawa worked as pianist and arranger for Watanabe Shin & Six Joes.