The first groups of postwar Japanese composers to introduce dodecaphony, as developed by Arnold Schoenberg and Anton Webern, were
Sibata Minao
(1916–1996) and
Irino Yosirô
(1921–1980); both composed many pieces using this method. Western post-Webern composers, represented by
Karlheinz Stockhausen
and
Pierre Boulez
, composed music that their Japanese counterparts considered “objectivist
” because the compositional procedures were clearly stated. The notion of...
