Yamada Kósçak. Ten short poems for piano

Boston: Oliver Ditson Co, 1922. — 26 p.Kósçak Yamada was an important pioneer in modern Japanese music. He studied with Max Bruch in Berlin and wrote a series of orchestral works and operas that introduced something new to Japan. He also laid the foundations for the present prosperous state of Japanese music, encouraging orchestras and opera companies, with a view to having Japanese works performed by them. He conducted the New York Philharmonic in 1918, met Rachmaninov, Prokofiev, Shostakovich and Ornstein, and in the 1930s conducted the Berlin Philharmonic and the Leningrad Philharmonic. Writing at first under the influence of European Classical styles, he developed a musical language that prepared the way for composers such as Takemitsu.