Isang Yun
Korean-born composer who made his later career in West Germany.
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Kurt Böhme
German bass.
German bass.
His repertoire grew to 120 roles, including an impressive list of premieres that include Strauss' Arabella (1933) and Die schweigsame Frau (1935), Sutermeister's Romeo und Julia (1940) and Die Zauberinsel (1942), Werner Egk's Irische Legende (1955), Rolf Liebermann's Schule der Frauen (1957) und Isang Yun's Sim Tjon (1972).
Gerd Zacher
German composer, organist, and writer on music.
German composer, organist, and writer on music.
He interpreted the scores of numerous contemporary composers, including John Cage, Juan Allende-Blin, Mauricio Kagel, György Ligeti, Hans Otte, Luis de Pablo, and Isang Yun.
Concertino (composition)
Diminutive of concerto, thus literally a small or short concerto.
Diminutive of concerto, thus literally a small or short concerto.
Isang Yun: Concertino for accordion and string quartet (1983)
List of symphony composers
List of composers who have written symphonies, listed in chronological order by year of birth, alphabetical within year.
List of composers who have written symphonies, listed in chronological order by year of birth, alphabetical within year.
Isang Yun (1917–1995), Korean composer of 7 symphonies
Piano trio repertoire
Among the fairly large repertoire for the standard piano trio (violin, cello, and piano) are the following works:
Among the fairly large repertoire for the standard piano trio (violin, cello, and piano) are the following works:
Isang Yun
Aki Takahashi
Japanese pianist specializing in contemporary classical music.
Japanese pianist specializing in contemporary classical music.
She has released numerous recordings and many 20th-century composers, including John Cage, Morton Feldman, Peter Garland, Alvin Lucier, Isang Yun, Joji Yuasa, Toshi Ichiyanagi, Carl Stone, Maki Ishii, and Takehisa Kosugi, have written pieces for her.
Koreans in Germany
Koreans in Germany numbered 31,248 individuals, according to the statistics of South Korea's Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade.
Koreans in Germany numbered 31,248 individuals, according to the statistics of South Korea's Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade.
In 1967, South Korea forcibly extradited, without the consent of the West German government, a number of Koreans suspected of spying for the North, the most famous of whom was composer and later German citizen Isang Yun.
Michalis Travlos
Born in 1950 in Piraeus, Greece.
Born in 1950 in Piraeus, Greece.
In 1975, he was accepted to the Hochschule das Künste Berlin, where he studied composition with Isang Yun until 1980, when he obtained his diploma in Music Composition.
Daniel Asia
American composer.
American composer.
His major teachers include Jacob Druckman, Stephen Albert, Gunther Schuller, and Isang Yun in composition, and Arthur Weisberg in conducting.