Title Taki Rentaro

  • Oita
Topic(s):
Historic Sites/Castle Ruins
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Web Page Pamphlet App, QR code, etc.
Text Length:
≤250 Words
FY Prepared:
2023
Associated Tourism Board:
taketashitagengokaisetsukyogikai
Associated Address:
2120-1, Taketa, Taketa City, Oita

瀧廉太郎


瀧廉太郎(1879-1903)は、日本の近代音楽史上最も影響力のある作曲家の一人として知られている。日本で初めて西洋音楽の技法を使って作曲し、その代表的な作品は現在でも聴かれている。


瀧廉太郎は東京に生まれ、幼少期は父親の役所勤めの関係で全国を転々としていた。父親が現在の竹田市を含む地域の知事に任命された時から、彼の人生において特に影響が強かった時期が訪れた。廉太郎は12歳から15歳までの2年半をこの町で過ごし、学校でピアノを習った。この学校は、瀧の代表作のひとつである「荒城の月」のモチーフになったといわれる岡城跡の近くにあった。


瀧は1901年に東京音楽学校を卒業し、その後ドイツのライプツィヒに留学した。しかし、ライプツィヒで結核を患い、重病となる。帰国後は大分市で晩年を過ごし、わずか23歳でこの世を去った。


西洋の奏法を取り入れた瀧は、日本の音楽に革命を起こした。「荒城の月」は100年以上にわたって学校の教科書に掲載され、「お正月」や「花」などの曲も今日まで親しまれている。

Taki Rentaro


Taki Rentaro (1879–1903) is noted as among the influential composers of modern Japanese music. He was the first to write music in Japan using Western techniques, and his most prominent works are still cherished today.


Taki Rentaro was born in Tokyo and moved around the country several times in his childhood due to his father’s job with the government. One of the most influential periods of his life started when his father was appointed governor of what is now Taketa. Rentaro lived in the town for two and half years between the ages of 12 and 15 and learned how to play the piano in school. This school was near the Oka Castle Ruins, the site said to have inspired Kojo no tsuki (The Moon over the Ruined Castle), one of Taki’s best-known compositions.


Taki graduated from the Tokyo Music School in 1901 and soon after traveled to Leipzig, Germany to continue his studies. However, he contracted tuberculosis in Leipzig and fell seriously ill. He returned to Japan and spent his final years in the city of Oita, where he passed away at only 23 years of age.


Taki’s adoption of Western techniques sparked a revolution in Japanese music. Kojo no tsuki has been featured in school textbooks for more than a century, and pieces such as Oshogatsu (New Year’s Celebration) and Hana (Flower) also remain popular to this day.

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