尾高　尚忠

Odaka, Hisatada

1911 - 1951

In 1934, Otaka returned to Vienna again, studied composition with Joseph Marx, and conducting with Weingartner at Master Class of the Academy of Music. “Nihon Kumikyoku (Japanese Suite)” was composed for the piano in 1936 and later arranged for orchestra as his graduation work. This work was awarded the Weingartner prize. After graduation, he was active as a conductor of the Vienna Symphony Orchestra and Berlin Philharmonic. Otaka returned home in 1940. In the next year, he played his own orchestral music together with works of Mozart and Brahms at the New Symphony Orchestra (currently named the NHK Symphony Orchestra), debuting as conductor and composer. Starting in 1942, he became a permanent conductor of the Orchestra. He dedicatedly worked during and just after the World War. He composed a lot of works mainly for Orchestra. He played his several works, one after another, such as “Rhapsody for Piano and Orchestra” (1943), “Symphonic Fantasia ‘The Prairie’ “ (1944), “Cello Concerto” (1944), and “Concert Suite for Piano and Orchestra”(1946) at the concert of his Orchestra.