The art music of the West has developed through out its history by means of individual geniuses, and out of the soil supporting them; non-Western musicians were born, and grew like the grasses of the field.
-- Toru Takemitsu
   
Toru Takemitsu   Name:
Toru Takemitsu
Type:
Composer
Nationality:
Japanese
Birth:
October 8, 1930
Death:
February 20, 1996
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