Overture in D Major

Composer: YAMADA, Kōsaku
  • Yamada completed this work on March 22, 1912.1
  • Yamada composed this work while he was studying composition at the Hochschule für Musik in Berlin.2
  • This piece is notable for being the first Western-style orchestral work by a Japanese composer.3

Sources

  1. Morihide Katayama, liner notes to Yamada: Symphony in F Major, ‘Triumph and Peace’, Takuo Yuasa, Zealand Symphony Orchesta, Ulster Orchestra, Naxos 8.555350, CD, 2004.
  2. Masakata Kanazawa and Yo Akioka, “Yamada, Kōsaku,” Grove Music Online (2001), accessed February 2, 2022,  https://www.oxfordmusiconline.com/grovemusic/view/10.1093/gmo/9781561592630.001.0001/omo-9781561592630-e-0000030669.
  3. Katayama, liner notes to Yamada: Symphony in F Major, ‘Triumph and Peace’.

Cut IDs

24375