Ikuma Dan


Ikuma Dan was a Japanese composer.

Biography

Dan was born in Tokyo, the descendant of a prominent family, his grandfather Baron Dan Takuma having been President of Mitsui before being assassinated in 1932. He graduated from Aoyama Gakuin and Tokyo Conservatory of Music in 1946. He studied with teachers including Kosaku Yamada, Saburō Moroi, Kan'ichi Shimofusa, Kunihiko Hashimoto, and Midori Hosokawa.
During his career he completed six symphonies, all recorded and released on the Decca label in Japan, and wrote seven operas as well as a number of filmscores, and many songs. He wrote celebratory music for the Japanese imperial family, actively promoted cultural exchange with China, and received the commission to write an opera for the 1997 opening of the New National Theatre, Tokyo, Japan's main opera house.
Dan is known in Japan for his 1951 opera Yūzuru, which is regularly revived there.

Honors

Stage

;Popular songs
;Children's songs