Tadao Sawai

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Mizu no hentai 16:14 Tools
Snowstorm 00:00 Tools
Tegoto 00:00 Tools
Rinzetsu 00:00 Tools
Kumiutahu 00:00 Tools
In Bloom 00:00 Tools
Early Spring 00:00 Tools
Early Summer Rain 00:00 Tools
Rokudan 00:00 Tools
Futatsu No Hensokyoku Sakura Sakura 00:00 Tools
Seoto 00:00 Tools
Midare 00:00 Tools
Onoe no matsu 00:00 Tools
Kinuta 00:00 Tools
After the Rain 00:00 Tools
Tegoto -Part 1- Tegoto 00:00 Tools
Itotake 00:00 Tools
Moonrise 00:00 Tools
Plum Blossoms 00:00 Tools
Faint Moonlight 00:00 Tools
Zangetsu 00:00 Tools
Tegoto - Part 3 - Rinzetsu 00:00 Tools
Tegoto -Part 2- Kumiutahu 00:00 Tools
Ripples 00:00 Tools
Tegoto - Part 3 - Rinzetsu (10/26/1971 00:00 Tools
The Hour of the Chicken - Hotaru 00:00 Tools
Tsuchiningyō 00:00 Tools
Kageou 00:00 Tools
Sanka (excerpt) 00:00 Tools
Godanginuta (Tegoto) 00:00 Tools
Rokudan-no-Shirabe 00:00 Tools
Taka 00:00 Tools
Toccata and Fugue in D Minor 00:00 Tools
The Hour of the Chicken (Hotaru) 00:00 Tools
Sleepers, Wake! 00:00 Tools
Tegoto: II. Kumiutahu 00:00 Tools
Sanka 00:00 Tools
Tegoto: I. Tegoto 00:00 Tools
Raden 00:00 Tools
Sakura 00:00 Tools
Jesu, Joy Of Man's Desiring 00:00 Tools
Minuet In G (from The Notebook For Anna Magdalena) 00:00 Tools
Polonaise (From Orchestral Suite No. 2) 00:00 Tools
"Little" Fugue In G Minor 00:00 Tools
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Tadao Sawai (沢井忠夫) was born in Aichi Prefecture, Japan in 1938. His father was a shakuhachi performer and at around the age of 10 Sawai began to study the koto. In 1958 he graduated from the traditional music department of Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music. In 1959 he was chosen by the Japanese national broadcasting company NHK as the best new performer, and from that time forward he began to be active as a performer and composer of contemporary music. He has performed widely throughout Japan and the world and his compositions are among the most widely performed in the koto world. He passed away on April 1, 1997. Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.