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

Classical Music Discord: 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. 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 titles Wind Color Vecto