さくら変奏曲：成田為三 / 佐川馨 [トロンボーン4重奏]

さくら変奏曲

作曲は東京音楽学校に在学中に、ドイツ留学から帰国して間もない山田耕筰に師事した。同門には指揮者の近衛秀麿、「椰子の実」で知られる大中寅二らがいる。大正10（1921）年、27歳の時にドイツに留学し、音楽界の重鎮ロベルト・カーンの下で4年間に亘って作曲を学んだ。「浜辺の歌」が有名過ぎるために唱歌や童謡の作曲家と思われがちであるが、ピアノ曲からオーケストラまで幅広く作曲し、当時の作曲家の中でも最新の音楽理論に裏付けされた高い実力を持った一人であった。300曲余りの作品があるとされているが、残念ながら大半が第二次大戦の空襲で焼失している。

「さくら変奏曲」はピアノのための独奏曲である。14小節の日本古謡「さくらさくら」のテーマに続いて9つの変奏がなされ、箏の手事を連想させるようなcodaで締めくくる。作曲年代は未詳であるが、同種の作品に昭和18（1943）年出版の「君が代変奏曲」、昭和17（1942）年出版の「浜辺の歌変奏曲」があるので、その近辺であると予想される。この編曲では、トロンボーンの演奏に適する箇所を抜粋して再構成した。（佐川馨）

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SAKURA-VARIATION

Renowned for "Song of the Seashore", popularly used as a middle school teaching resource, as well as children's song "Canary", Tamezo Narita (1893~1945) was a composer from the town of Yonaizawa, Akita Prefecture. From the associate teacher preparation center of his hometown's elementary school, he went on to graduate from Akita Normal School to become an elementary school teacher. However, captivated by the Western music he heard during his tenure at the normal school, after a year of teaching, he disregarded the notice of transfer, instead moving to Tokyo to attend Tokyo Music School's first class normal school course.

His composing journey during his time at Tokyo Music School was overlooked by Kosaku Yamada, who had just returned from an exchange to Germany. Fellow students included conductor Hidemaro Konoe, as well as Toraji Onaka, who was known for his choral arrangement of "Coconuts". In 1921, at the age of 27, Narita would go on exchange to Germany for four years, studying composition under the wing of Robert Kahn, a musical luminary of the time. Due to the immense popularity of Narita's "Song of the Seashore", he is often seen as a composer of choral works and children's songs, but in reality he composed for a wide range of instrumentation ranging from piano solo to orchestra, and expressed a keen interest and ability in the newest developments in music theory, even among composers of his era. He is believed to have composed over 300 works, but unfortunately a large majority of these were destroyed by aerial bombing during World War Two.

"SakuraVariation" is a piece for solo piano. Following the 14bar theme of the traditional Japanese folk song "Sakura Sakura", there are nine variations, after which the coda, reminiscent of the sound of a koto, concludes the piece. The year of composition is unknown, but similar works like his 1943 "Variations on the Theme of Kimigayo" and his 1942 "Song of the Seashore Variations" lead many to believe it was composed around the time. This arrangement is a reorganized selection of passages to better suit the trombone instrumentation.

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