Toshio Hosokawa

Japanese composer

Toshio Hosokawa (細川俊夫, Hosokawa Toshio; born 23 October 1955) is a Japanese composer of contemporary classical music. He studied in Germany but returned to Japan, finding a personal style inspired by classical Japanese music and culture. He has composed operas, the oratorio Voiceless Voice in Hiroshima, and instrumental music.

He was the cofounder and artistic director of a Japanese festival for contemporary music and has been a composer in residence at international festivals such as the Venice Biennale, Lucerne Festival, Warsaw Autumn and Rheingau Musik Festival. His operas premiered at the Munich Biennale and La Monnaie, among others.

Hosokawa lives in Nagano and Mainz.

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Works

12 Japanese Songs: no. 1 Sakura
12 Japanese Songs: no. 10 Oshougatsu
12 Japanese Songs: no. 11 Kaasan no Uta
12 Japanese Songs: no. 12 Edo no Komoriuta
12 Japanese Songs: no. 2 Haru no Ogawa
12 Japanese Songs: no. 3 Tooryan-se
12 Japanese Songs: no. 4 Kokyo
12 Japanese Songs: no. 5 Yamadera no Oshousan
12 Japanese Songs: no. 6 Aka-Tombo
12 Japanese Songs: no. 7 Kojo no Tsuki
12 Japanese Songs: no. 8 Yuyake-koyake
12 Japanese Songs: no. 9 Yuki no furu Machi wo
A Song From Far Away - In nomine
Ans Meer
Atem-Lied
Autumn Wind
Ave Maria
Banka
Birds Fragments II
Birds Fragments III
Blossoming
Blossoming II
Ceremonial Dance
Ceremony
Chant
Circulating Ocean
Circulating Ocean: Breeze on the Ocean
Circulating Ocean: Cloudscape in the Sky
Circulating Ocean: Introduction
Circulating Ocean: Mist on the Ocean
Circulating Ocean: Silent Ocean
Circulating Ocean: Storm
Circulating Ocean: The Water Returning to the Sky Again
Circulating Ocean: Waves
Circulating Ocean: Waves From the Ocean
Cloud and Light
Cloudscape
Cloudscapes - Moon Night
Die Lotosblume
Drawing
Duo für Violine und Violoncello
Elegy
Etudes for Piano
Etudes for Piano: I. 2 Lines
Etudes for Piano: II. Point and Line
Etudes for Piano: III. Calligraphy, Haiku, 1 Line
Etudes for Piano: IV. Ayatori, Magic By 2 Hands, 3 Lines
Etudes for Piano: V. Anger
Etudes for Piano: VI. Lied, Melody
Ferne-Landschaft II
Floral Fairy
Flute Concerto "Per-Sonare"
Fragmente II
Futari Shizuka (The Maiden from the Sea)
Horn Concerto, "Moment of Blossoming"
Im Frühlingsgarten
Im Nebel
In die Tiefe der Zeit
Interim
Kalligraphie
Kalligraphie: I
Kalligraphie: II
Kalligraphie: III
Kalligraphie: IV
Kalligraphie: V
Kalligraphie: VI
Klage
Konzert für Saxophon und Orchester
Koto-uta
Kuroda-Bushi
Landscape I
Landscape II
Landscape III
Landscape V
Lied
Lotus Under the Moonlight
Meditation - to the victims of Tsunami 3.11
Melodia
Melodia II
Memory of the Sea (Hiroshima Symphony)
Nach dem Sturm
Nachtmusik
New Variations on a Waltz by Anton Diabelli: Verlust
Nocturne
Prayer
Regentanz
Renka I (Manyô-shû)
Renka I (Manyô-shû): Aky no ta no...
Renka I (Manyô-shû): Kimi ga yuku...
Renka I (Manyô-shû): Yura no to o...
Sakura
Sakura / Solitude
Sakura für Otto Tomek
Schneeglöckchen
Sen I
Sen IV
Sen V
Sen VI
Serenade
Serenade: I. In the Moonlight
Serenade: II. Dream Path
Silent Flowers
Singing Garden
Singing Garden in Venice
Singing Garden in Venice: Abenddämmerung
Singing Garden in Venice: Das Meer vor dem Sturm
Singing Garden in Venice: Dämmerung
Singing Garden in Venice: Nachspiel. Nacht – Schlaf
Singing Garden in Venice: Vorspiel. Nacht
Slow Motion
Small Chant
Small River in a Distance
Spell
Sublimation
Tabi-bito
The Raven
Threnody
Trumpet Concerto "Im Nebel"
Urbilder
Urbilder: I
Urbilder: II
Urbilder: III
Urbilder: IV
Urbilder: V
Uzu
Variations for Wind Ensemble
Vertical Song I
Vertical Time Study I
Vertical Time Study III
Violin Concerto "Genesis"
Violin Concerto "Genesis": I. —
Violin Concerto "Genesis": II. —
Violin Concerto "Genesis": III. —
Violin Concerto "Genesis": IV. —
Violin Concerto "Genesis": V. —
Violin Concerto "Genesis": VI. —
Violin Concerto "Genesis": VII. —
Voyage I
Voyage IX "Awakening"
Voyage V
Voyage VI
Wie ein Atmen im Lichte
Winter Bird
Woven Dreams