伊福部 昭

Akira Ifukube (伊福部 昭 Ifukube Akira, born 31 May,1914) is a Japanese composer of classical music and film scores, perhaps best known for his work on the soundtracks of the Godzilla movies.

Akira Ifukube born on May

Akira Ifukube (伊福部 昭 Ifukube Akira, born 31 May,1914) is a Japanese composer of classical music and film scores, perhaps best known for his work on the soundtracks of the Godzilla movies.

Akira Ifukube born on May 31, 1914 in Kushiro on the Japanese island of Hokkaido, the third son of a Shinto priest. Much of his childhood was spent in areas with a mixed Japanese and Ainu population, and his father, unusually for the time, socialised with Ainu. Ifukube was strongly influenced by the musical traditions of both peoples, and studied the violin and the shamisen. While attending secondary school in Hokkaido's capital, Sapporo, he fist encountered classical music, and legend has it that Ifukube decided to become a composer at the age of 14 after hearing a radio performance of Igor Stravinsky's Rite of Spring, and he also cites the music of Manuel de Falla as a major influence.