Hiroshi Oguri
Hiroshi Oguri, sometimes given as Hiroshi Ohguri, was a Japanese composer.
Biography
Hiroshi Oguri was born in Osaka, Japan on 9 July 1918.He was from a merchant family in the Senba district of Osaka. His father was an amateur Gidayu player, and he grew up surrounded by traditional Japanese music. He was introduced to European classical music in 1931, upon his entry into high school, where he joined the wind band and learned to play the French horn. After a spell in his family's store, in 1941 he went to Tokyo, where he joined the Tokyo Symphony Orchestra as a hornist. In 1946 he became principal horn of the Japan Symphony Orchestra; in 1949 he resigned and returned to Osaka, where in 1950 he joined the Osaka Philharmonic Orchestra. Here he remained until 1966. Ohguri also taught music in Kyoto Women's University and Osaka College of Music. He died in Osaka on April 18, 1982.
Works
Opera
Akai Jinbaori, text by Junji Kinoshita Jigokuhen, text by Ryūnosuke Akutagawa Poseidon Kamensai, text by Kunio TsujiOrchestral
Fantasy on Osaka Folk Tunes Violin Concerto- ''Rhapsody on Osaka Nursery Rhymes''
Wind Orchestra
Rhapsody Shinwa - after the Tale of Ama-no-Iwayado Burlesque for band- ''Kamen Gensō''