1. Viscount Hidemaro Konoye was a Japanese conductor and composer of classical music.
13 Facts About Hidemaro Konoye
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Hidemaro Konoye was the younger brother of pre-war Japanese Prime Minister Fumimaro Konoe.
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Hidemaro Konoye was the younger son of Duke Konoe Atsumaro, scion of one of the Five Regent Houses of the Fujiwara clan.
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Hidemaro Konoye's decision was supported by his older brother, Fumimaro.
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Hidemaro Konoye attended the Gakushuin Peers School, where he became close friends with Takashi Inukai.
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Around this time, Hidemaro Konoye frequently visited the Tokyo Music School and was privately educated by Kosaku Yamada.
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Hidemaro Konoye studied in Paris under Vincent d'Indy and Berlin under Franz Schreker.
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Hidemaro Konoye studied conducting under Erich Kleiber, and Karl Muck.
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Hidemaro Konoye co-founded the Japan Symphonic Association in 1925, and the following year became conductor of the orchestra.
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Additionally, Hidemaro Konoye made numerous guest appearances in Europe and America, conducting some 90 different orchestras in the course of his career including the orchestra of La Scala, Milan and the NBC Symphony Orchestra.
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Hidemaro Konoye created friendships with Erich Kleiber, Leopold Stokowski, Wilhelm Furtwangler and Richard Strauss.
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Hidemaro Konoye went to Germany and conducted Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra in the second half of the 1930s.
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Hidemaro Konoye wrote original compositions, but was more deeply interested in arranging existing music, including, for example, Modest Mussorgsky's Pictures at an Exhibition and Schubert's String Quintet, which he orchestrated.