Makoto Moroi

(17 December 1930 – 2 September 2013) was a Japanese composer. Biography Makoto Moroi was born in Tokyō, and is the son of Saburō Moroi. He studied composition with Tomojirō Ikenouchi at the Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music, graduating in 1952. He also studied Gregorian chant privately with Paul Anouilh, and Renaissance and Baroque music with Eta Harich-Schneider. He was one of the leading composers who introduced Japanese audiences to new musical styles and devices, including twelve-tone technique, serialism, and aleatory music. He was one of the first Japanese composers to embrace electronic music, and also introduced traditional Japanese instruments like the shakuhachi into his compositions. He died, aged 82, on 2 September 2013. List of works Opera *1959 – The Stars of Pythagoras *1960 – Red Cocoon *1961 – Die lange, lange Strasse lange *1962 – Yamauba *1965 – Phaeton the charioteer Choral *1959 – Chamber Cantata No. 1 *1959 – Chamber Cantata No. 2 *1970 – Izumo, my home *1972 – A romance of playing cards Orchestral *1953 – Composition No. 1 *1958 – Composition No. 2 *1958 – Composition No. 3 *1960 – Composition No. 4 *1961 – Ode to Schoenberg *1966 – The Vision