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Seiji Ozawa
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Seiji Ozawa (1935–2024) was a Japanese conductor, music director, and musician. Born in Shenyang, he studied at the Toho Gakuen School of Music under Hideo Saito, Charles Munch, Leonard Bernstein, and Herbert von Karajan. His professional career began in 1959. He performed classical music and played the piano. Ozawa was a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the Académie des beaux-arts.
He received the Knight of the Legion of Honour, the Order of Culture, an Emmy Award, and the Praemium Imperiale. He was also recognized in the Grammy Winners, American Academy Arts Sciences, and Kennedy Center Honors collections. Ozawa recorded for Deutsche Grammophon and spoke Japanese, English, and Standard Chinese. He had two children, including Yukiyoshi Ozawa. He died in Setagaya.
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Music · MusicBrainz
- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Male
- Country
- Japan
- Active from
- 1935
- Active to
- 2024
Discography
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Listeners · Last.fm
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- 19,339
- Total plays
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Seiji Ozawa (小澤征爾, born September 1, 1935) is a Japanese conductor, particularly noted for his interpretations of large-scale late Romantic works. Born in Shenyang, China in 1935 to Japanese parents, Seiji Ozawa studied both Western and Oriental music as a child and later graduated from Tokyo's Toho School of Music. In 1959 Ozawa won first prize at the International Conducting Competition at Besancon and was invited to Tanglewood by Charles Munch. <a href="https://www.last.fm/music/Seiji+Ozawa"
Key facts
- Born
- ( 1935-09-01 ) September 1, 1935, Mukden , Fengtian , Manchukuo
- Died
- February 6, 2024 (2024-02-06) (aged 88), Tokyo, Japan
- Occupation
- Conductor
- Organizations
- Chicago Symphony Orchestra Toronto Symphony Orchestra San Francisco Symphony Boston Symphony Orchestra Saito Kinen Orchestra Vienna State Opera
- Spouses
- Kyoko Edo [ ja ] ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. 1962 ; divorced</span>"}]]}'>div. 1966 ) Miki Irie [ ja ] ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. 1968 )
- Children
- 2, including Yukiyoshi
- Awards
- Koussevitzky Prize Grammy Award Suntory Music Award Kennedy Center Honors
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Official website
セイジ・オザワ 松本フェスティバル
1992年、小澤征爾が創立し、毎夏、長野県松本市で行なわれる音楽祭。世界中から優れた音楽家たちが結集し、サイトウ・キネン・オーケストラを中心に多彩な演目が披露される。OMFの大きな特色である小澤征爾音楽塾の公演では、数多くの子どもたちに生の音楽に触れてもらっている。
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- Empire of Japan
- Place of birth
- Shenyang
- Place of death
- Setagaya
- Child
- Yukiyoshi Ozawa
- Occupation
- musician
- Educated at
- Toho Gakuen School of Music
- Languages spoken
- Standard Chinese
- Student of
- Herbert von Karajan
- Field of work
- classical music
- Genre
- classical music
- Instrument
- piano
- Record label
- Deutsche Grammophon
- Sport
- rugby
- Official website
- www.ozawa-festival.com
- Image
- Seiji Ozawa - a candidate for membership of the Japan Art Academy.png
- Number of children
- 2
- Residence
- Setagaya
Show 10 more facts
- date of birth
- 1935-09-01
- name in kana
- おざわ せいじ
- member of
- Académie des beaux-arts
- start of work period
- 1959-00-00
- name in native language
- 小澤 征爾
- Commons category
- Seiji Ozawa
- date of death
- 2024-02-06
- manner of death
- natural causes
- cause of death
- heart failure
- end of work period
- 2024-00-00
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Encyclopedic overview
Seiji Ozawa (小澤 征爾, Ozawa Seiji; September 1, 1935 – February 6, 2024) was a Japanese conductor known internationally for his work as music director of the Toronto Symphony Orchestra, the San Francisco Symphony, and especially the Boston Symphony Orchestra (BSO), where he served from 1973 for 29 years. After conducting the Vienna New Year's Concert in 2002, he was director of the Vienna State Opera until 2010. In Japan, he founded the Saito Kinen Orchestra in 1984, their festival in 1992, and the Tokyo Opera Nomori in 2005.
Ozawa rose to fame after he won the 1959 Besançon competition. He was invited by Charles Munch, then the music director of the BSO, for the following year to Tanglewood, the orchestra's summer home, where he studied with Munch and Pierre Monteux. Winning the festival's Koussevitzky Prize earned him a scholarship with Herbert von Karajan and the Berlin Philharmonic and brought him to the attention of Leonard Bernstein, who made him his assistant with the New York Philharmonic in 1961. He became artistic director of the festival and education program in Tanglewood in 1970, together with Gunther Schuller. In 1994, the new main hall there was named after him.
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