Takashi Yoshimatsu ( 吉松隆 ): Guitar Sonata “Sky Color Tensor” (1992)

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 avant-garde techniques. While absorbing these, Yoshimatsu opposed the general fashion, returning to popular rhythms and romantic melody and coming to be regarded as the standard-bearer of Neo-Romanticism 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. Guitar Sonata “Sky Color Tensor” Op. 52 ( 1992 ) Guitar Sonata “Sky color Tensor is a series of five movements in a symphonic work for solo classical guitar, composed by Takashi Yoshimatsu in 1992. It was written as a subset of pieces from a set of three pieces that the composer wrote for classical guitarist Kazuhito Yamashita