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AKIRAIFUKUBE.ORG is the official English language website
devoted to the great Japanese composer, Akira Ifukube.



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

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Contatto con L'Oriente - The Official Re-Release


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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.



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