US TARIFFS UPDATE | August 2025 | No impact expected on your Presto orders | Read full details
Yasuji Kiyose
Born: 13th November 1900, Oita, Japan
Died: 14th September 1981
Nationality: Japanese
Yasuji Kiyose was a Japanese composer. He studied composition privately with Kōsaku Yamada and Kōsuke Komatsu and in 1930, took an active part in organizing the Shinkō Sakkyokuka Renmei, (which later grew into the Japanese section of the ISCM).
In 1948, Kiyose took on Hiroyoshi Suzuki and Tōru Takemitsu for a brief period as pupils in composition.
His music at times incorporates Japanese pentatonic scales, and other elements of Japanese folk-song; his far better known pupil Takemitsu, developed this tendency further in a great number of his works.
Read more at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yasuji_Kiyose
