Takashi Yoshimatsu ( 吉松隆 ): Water Color Scalar (1993)

Score Maker, Music Chat Discord Server: Takashi Yoshimatsu ( b. 1953 ) Takashi Yoshimatsu was born in Tokyo in 1953, at a time when Japanese composers had embraced the trend towards avantgarde techniques. While absorbing these, Yoshimatsu opposed the general fashion, returning to popular rhythms and romantic melody and coming to be regarded as the standardbearer of NeoRomanticism in Japan. He studied under Teizo Matsumura, a pupil of Ifukube, for some time, but acquired much of his craft by himself. He is a great admirer of Sibelius and his works include five symphonies, and concertos of piano, for saxophone, and for bassoon. Water Color Scalar Op. 57 ( 1993 ) Water Color Scalar, Op. 57 is a series of five small dances for solo classical guitar, composed by Takashi Yoshimatsu in 1993. It was written as a subset of pieces from a set of three pieces that the composer wrote for classical guitarist Kazuhito Yamashita entitled Wind, Water, Sky and bearing the tit