Three composers died this week
RIPToshi Ichiyanagi, who died on October 7 aged 89, was the first husband of Yoko Ono from 1956 to 1962. He never remarried.
His works include five operas and ten symphonies.
Josep Soler, who died on October 9 aged 87, was a leading Catalan composer with 16 operas, 7 symphonies and 3 piano concertos to his name.
Leon Schidlowsky, who died on October 10 aged 91, was a prolific Chilean composer who migrated to Israel in the 1960s and taught at Tel Aviv Uiversity until 2000, cultivating a generation of Israeli composers.
photo: Toshi Ichiyanagi and Yoko Ono in 1961
More on the clappy couple here.
Ichiyanagi studied in the same class with Rautavaara. Rautavaara writes in his memoirs how determined Ichiyanagi was in becoming a major composer. He knew all the classic scores upside down.