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First name: Saburo
Last name: Muroi
Dates: 1903-1977
Category: Quartet
Nationality: japanese
Opus name: Piano Quartet Opus 9 (1934)
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Information: From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Saburō Moroi (Moroi Saburō; Tokyo, 7 August 1903 — 24 March 1977) was a Japanese composer. Moroi was self-taught in composition while studying at the Tokyo Imperial University before moving in 1932 to Germany to study in the Berlin Musikhochschule under Leo Schrattenholz and Walter Gmeindl. While Moroi had been active in the Tokyo musical scene, forming with other colleagues a society named Surya, he claimed that his creative life truly started from his Berlin days. Returning to Japan in 1934, he built a successful career in subsequent years. Soon after completing his Symphony No. 3 in 1944 he was called up by the Japanese Army to serve in the Pacific War. Following the country's surrender he centered in teaching and writing books on music theory, composing just eight works in the following three decades, including two more symphonies. In his last works he turned to the twelve-tone system.