八村　義夫

Hachimura, Yoshio

1938 - 1985

Hachimura’s Opus 1 is “Improvisation for Piano” (1957), which made use of principles of atonality and indeterminacy. Hachimura subsequently composed “Shigarami I” (1959), a piece based on the traditional jōruri piece “Katsuragawa Renri no Shigarami”, and “Hitoiki goto ni Ichi-jikan (Every Breath, One Hour)” (1960), a piece influenced by P. Boulez. From around 1963, Hachimura also assisted Tōru Takemitsu in making fair copies of scores. Hachimura finished composing “Seishin-fu” in 1969 and “Shigarami II” in 1970. “Sakuran no Ronri (The Logic of Insanity)”, which was premiered in 1975, was awarded the Fukuyama Prize and the piece was later awarded a prize by the National Contemporary Music Association. On June 15 in 1985, Hachimura passed away at the age of 46, unable to complete “La Folia”.