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Japanese musician
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Place of birth
Tokyo City, Empire of Japan
Death
29 December 2001 (aged 93 years)
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Place of death
Kōbe, Japan
Age
93 years
Education
Kyoto University,
Awards
Order of the Rising Sun, 3rd class
Order of Culture
(1994)
Medal with Purple Ribbon
(1969)
Person of Cultural Merit
(1989)
Officer's Cross of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany
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Biography
Takashi Asahina (朝比奈 隆, Asahina Takashi, 9 July 1908 – 29 December 2001) was a Japanese conductor.
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Asahina was born in Tokyo as an illegitimate child of Kaichi Watanabe. He founded the Kansai Symphonic Orchestra (today the Osaka Philharmonic Orchestra) in 1947 and remained its chief conductor until his death in Kobe.Inspired by a meeting with Wilhelm Furtwängler in the 1950s, he began a lifelong attachment to the music of Anton Bruckner, recording the complete Bruckner symphonies several times.For many years, he was associated with the North German Radio Orchestra in Hamburg. In May and October 1996, he appeared with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra.
Awards and honors
- Asahi Prize
- Medal with Purple Ribbon
- Order of the Rising Sun, 3rd class
- Person of Cultural Merit
- Order of Culture
- Officers Crosses of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany
- Cross of Honour for Science and Art, First Class
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