早坂文雄 Japan

Biography

Tag as ???? Fumio Hayasaka (???? Hayasaka Fumio August 19, 1914 - October 15, 1955) was a Japanese composer of classical music and film scores. Hayasaka was born in Sendai on the main Japanese island of Honsh?. In 1918, Hayasaka and his family moved to Sapporo on the northern island of Hokkaid?. He was a church organist as a young man and wrote his first original composition, Prelude for Two Hymns, in 1936. Other early works include a Nocturne (1936) for piano and the orchestral Ancient Dance (1938).