Toshiro Mayuzumi

Toshiro Mayuzumi (1929-1997) was a Japanese composer born in Yokohama. He studied at the Tokyo University of the Arts and then at the Paris Conservatoire, where he came into contact with musique concrète and the music of Messiaen and Boulez. He was the first composer in Japan to work with musique concrète and one of the pioneers of electronic music there. He is best known for the Nirvana Symphony and for a large body of film music. Mayuzumi's early tape and electronic works include X, Y, Z (1953) and Music for Sine Wave by Proportion of Prime Number.