Background
Kazuo Yamada was born on October 19, 1912 in Tokyo, Japan.
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Kazuo Yamada was born on October 19, 1912 in Tokyo, Japan.
He began studies at Gakushuin and then Tokyo University of the Arts (formerly the Tokyo Music School). Studied piano with Leo Sirota and Paul Weingarten, and composition with Klaus Pringsheim. Graduated from Tokyo University of the Arts in 1937. Kazuo graduated at the top of his class.
After graduating from Tokyo University of the Arts in 1937, Yamada was briefly professor at Tokyo University of the Arts and then proceeded to Europe for further training in music. Studied composing and conducting under Pringsheim and Rosenstock. Belonged to the romantic school of music.
Among his compositions are "A Song Which a Young Man Sings" and "Symphonic Kiso" (Kiso is the name of a province in central Japan).
In 1976, Yamada was awarded the Medal with Purple Ribbon (for artistic excellence) by the Government of Japan. He was further awarded the Minister of Education Award for Fine Arts in 1979, the Order of the Rising Sun, Gold Rays with Rosette, Fourth Class in 1984, and the Japan Art Academy Award in 1986.
A live recording of Yamada conducting Symphony No. 9 (Mahler) with the New Japan Philharmonic was released in 2011, a quarter-century after the 1986 performance, which was awarded the Grand Prize for recording in the Arts Festival of the Japan Ministry for Cultural Affairs.
