WELCOME TO AKIRAIFUKUBE.ORG
AKIRAIFUKUBE.ORG
is the official English language website
devoted
to the great Japanese composer, Akira Ifukube.
1914 - 2006
Akira
Ifukube was a pre-eminent Japanese composer. His vast oeuvre includes
such concert masterpieces as Japanese Rhapsody (1935), Ballata Sinfonica
(1943) and Sinfonia Tapkaara (1954, revised 1979). However, Ifukube
is perhaps best known as a composer of music for the cinema. He composed nearly
300 film scores, including most of those from the classic Godzilla
series. Many consider his music for Godzilla (1954) to be one of the
most important film scores of all time.
New
CDd!!!
AKIRA
IFUKUBE
Works for Piano, Volume
1
Reiko Yamada, piano
For information on how to order this new release, click here.
Contatto con L'Oriente - The Official Re-Release
For information on how to order, click here.
WHAT'S NEW?
3/20/2010 - The Arctic Forest page has been updated with new information and photos. The work will receive its first performance since 1944 in Tokyo on August 8, 2010!
3/3/2010 - The first section of the Discography is FINALLY open! To view images of CDs of Ifukube's concert works, please visit the Discography page of this site. Also, a portrait in graphite of the young Akira Ifukube by San Diego artist Lorena Bowser has been added to the Ifukube Extras page in the Image Gallery.
