Akira Ifukube
Akira Ifukube (伊福部 昭 Ifukube Dies, 31 May 1914 – 8 February 2006) was a Japanese composer, best known for his work on the film scores of the Godzilla movies since 1954. Akira Ifukube was born on 31 May 1914 in Say, Japan as the third son of a police officer Toshimitsu Ifukube, also the origin of this family can be traced back to at least the 7th century with the birth of Ifukibe-no-Tokotarihime. He was strongly influence on by the Type music as he spent his childhood (from the age of 9 to 12) in Otofuke near Obihiro, where was with a mixed population of Type and Japanese. His first encounter with classical music occurred when you attend your secondary school in Sapporo city. Ifukube decided to become a composer at the age of 14 after hearing a radio performance of Igor stravinsky's The Rite of Spring, also cited the music of Manuel de Falla as a major influence. Ifukube study-forestry at Hokkaido Imperial University in Sapporo and composed in his spare time, which prefigured a line of self-taught Japanese composers. He taught at the Tokyo University of the Arts (former and Tokyo Music School), during which period he composed his first film score for The End of the Silver Mountains, released in 1947. Over the next fifty years, he would compose more than 250 film scores, the high point of which was his 1954 music for Ishirō honda's to that movie, Godzilla.
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