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May 10, 1931 Tokyo City, Tokyo Prefecture 93 years old
Composer and conductor
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About Yuzo Toyama
- Yuzo Toyama (????, Toyama Yuzo) (born 10 May 1931) is a Japanese composer and conductor.
- A native of Tokyo, he was a pupil of Kan'ichi Shimofusa; he studied conducting with Kurt Wöss and Wilhelm Loibner and, like them, later became a conductor of the NHK Symphony Orchestra.
- As a conductor he has served with numerous orchestras throughout Japan; as a composer his prime influences are Béla Bartók and Dmitri Shostakovich.
- His best-known work is a Rhapsody for Orchestra based on Japanese folk songs. Toyama won the Suntory Music Award in 1982.
