Biography
Ikuma Dan was born on 7 April 1924 in Tokyo and died on 17 May 2001 in Suzhou, China. He came from a well-known industrialist family and graduated from the Tokyo Music School in 1946, studying with, among others, Kōsaku Yamada. Besides six symphonies and seven operas, he composed music for around 120 films, the first in 1952, the same year his best-known opera, "Yūzuru", premiered. From 1979 he devoted himself increasingly to cultural exchange with China, where he later died.
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