SAITOH, TAKANOBU

Takanobu Saitoh was born in Tokyo in 1924, the year after an earthquake destroyed nearly half of the city. Interested in music from his early youth, he decided to enroll in the composition curriculum at the Tokyo National Academy of Music in 1943. In October of that same year he transferred to the Army Band of Toyama School (formerly known as the Japanese Army Institute of Gymnastics and Military Music ) as a trainee and completed the student course in June,...