Yoshihisa Taira

Japanese-born French composer

Yoshihisa Taira (or Taïra) (平義久, Taira Yoshihisa; 3 March 1937 – 13 March 2005) was a Japanese composer of contemporary classical music primarily active in France. Grove Music Online remarks that "His treatment of time and space, sonority, poetic lyricism, silence [...] were derived from traditional Japanese music and art, and are compatible with a French modernist aesthetic".

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Works

Convergence I
Dimorphie
Hiérophonie V
Monodrame I
Monodrame III
Méditations
Pentalpha
Radiance