Kosaku yamada biography of rory

When Kosaku Yamada was only 10-years-old, his father died.

Kosaku yamada biography of rory

According to his father’s wishes, Kosaku attended a Christian missionary school. He later went to live with his sister, who was married to an Englishman, Edward Gauntlet. They allowed him to pursue his higher education and Gauntlet, an amateur musician and an organist for the Anglican Church, fostered his interest in Western music and in 1904 Yamada entered the Tokyo Music School.

Because that School did not have a composing department at that time, Yamada studied singing and later cello and theory under two German teachers, August Junker and Heinrich Werkmeister. Yamada wrote string quartets, instrumental pieces, songs and chorals.

In 1910, he moved to Berlin to continue his studies at the conservatory guided by famous composers like Max Bruch and Leopold Wolf, where he wrote a symphony and an opera, both the first attempts ever by a Japanese composer.

When Yamada was on a visit to Japan, he was forced to stay there due to