Asahina Takashi
Asahina Takashi at the establishment of the Kansai Opera Association in 1949
Born(1908-07-09)9 July 1908
Tokyo, Empire of Japan
Died29 December 2001(2001-12-29) (aged 93)
Higashinada-ku, Kobe, Japan
Occupationconductor

Asahina Takashi (朝比奈 隆, 9 July 1908 – 29 December 2001) was a Japanese conductor.

Person

Asahina was born in Tokyo as an illegitimate child of Kaichi Watanabe.[1] He founded the Kansai Symphonic Orchestra (today the Osaka Philharmonic Orchestra) in 1947 and remained its chief conductor until his death in Kobe. Inspired by a meeting with Wilhelm Furtwängler in the 1950s, he began a lifelong attachment to the music of Anton Bruckner, recording the complete Bruckner symphonies several times. For many years, he was associated with the North German Radio Orchestra in Hamburg. In May and October 1996, he appeared with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra.

Awards and honors

References

  1. ↑ 中丸美繪 オーケストラ、それは我なり(in Japanese) Bungeishunjū pp.35-49, 2008 ISBN 9784163705804


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