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Ikuma Dan
Ikuma Dan is credited on 118 releases across 19 albums tracked on Gatefold, active 1958–2021 — the collector-built map of who actually made the music.
118
Pressings credited
19
Albums
8
Decades active
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In collections
Biography
Ikuma Dan (團 伊玖磨, Dan Ikuma; 7 April 1924 – 17 May 2001) was a Japanese composer. Dan was born in Tokyo, the descendant of a prominent family, his grandfather Baron Dan Takuma having been President of Mitsui before being assassinated in 1932. He graduated from Aoyama Gakuin and Tokyo Music School in 1946. He studied with teachers including Kosaku Yamada, Kunihiko Hashimoto, Kan'ichi Shimofusa, Saburō Moroi, and Midori Hosokawa. During his career he completed six symphonies, all recorded and released on the Decca label in Japan, and wrote seven operas as well as a number of filmscores, and many songs. He wrote celebratory music for the Japanese imperial family, actively promoted cultural exchange with China (from 1979 until his death in Suzhou, China, in 2001), and received the commission to write an opera (Takeru) for the 1997 opening of the New National Theatre, Tokyo, Japan's main opera house. Dan is known in Japan for his 1951 opera Yūzuru (Twilight Crane), which is regularly revived there.
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Credited work
118 releases · 19 albums · active 1958–2021
- Performance · 112
- Other credits · 45
Studios: St. Barnabas Church, London · Walthamstow Assembly Hall · Kingsway Hall · St. Barnabas Church, Woodside
Discography
Records they worked on — most-collected first.
Frequent collaborators
- Various
- Octetto Tokyo-Berlin
- Dorothy Guyver Britton
- The Folk Crusaders
- Philip Jones Ensemble
- Yoshikazu Mera
- Yūzō Toyama
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