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AKIRAIFUKUBE.ORG
is the official English language website
devoted
to the great Japanese composer, Akira Ifukube.
AKIRA IFUKUBE
1914 - 2006
1914 - 2006
Akira
Ifukube was a pre-eminent Japanese composer. His vast oeuvre includes
such concert masterpieces as Japanese Rhapsody (1936), 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.
