Rentarō Taki
Rentarō Taki (滝 廉太郎, Taki Rentarō, 24 August 1879 – 29 June 1903) was a Japanese pianist and composer of the Meiji era. Taki was born in Tokyo, but moved to many places during his childhood owing to his father's job. He graduated from the Tokyo Music School in 1901. One of his famous pieces is "Kōjō no Tsuki" (Moon Over the Ruined Castle), which was included in the songbook for junior high school students, along with the "Hakone-Hachiri" (箱根八里). "Hana" (花, "Flower") is also a well-known song. In the same year, Taki went to the Leipzig Conservatory in Germany for further studies, but fell seriously ill with pulmonary tuberculosis and therefore returned to Japan. He lived quietly in the country afterwards, but soon died at the age of 23. His posthumous work is a solo piano piece called "Urami" (憾, "Regret"), which he wrote four months before he died. |
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Recordings
Company | Matrix No. | Size | First Recording Date | Title | Primary Performer | Description | Role | Audio |
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Victor | BS-07917 | 10-in. | 4/22/1937 | Kōjō no tsuki | Yoshie Fujiwara ; Vincent Lopez Orchestra | Jazz/dance band, with male vocal solo | composer | |
Columbia (U.K.) | CL6038 | 10-in. | 1/22/1937 | Kojo no tsuki | Marcel Moyse | Flute solo, with piano | composer |
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Discography of American Historical Recordings, s.v. "Taki, Rentarō," accessed November 1, 2024, https://adpprod1.library.ucsb.edu/names/105895.
Taki, Rentarō. (2024). In Discography of American Historical Recordings. Retrieved November 1, 2024, from https://adpprod1.library.ucsb.edu/names/105895.
"Taki, Rentarō." Discography of American Historical Recordings. UC Santa Barbara Library, 2024. Web. 1 November 2024.
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LCNAR: Taki, Rentarō, 1879-1903 - http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n88136477
Wikidata: 瀧廉太郎 - http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q717957
VIAF: http://viaf.org/viaf/44569100
MusicBrainz: 瀧廉太郎 - https://musicbrainz.org/artist/a730d503-f55f-489c-95a9-0169d89a95ff
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