Seiji Ozawa

Seiji Ozawa ( 小澤 征爾 , Ozawa Seiji, September 1,

1935 – February 6, 2024) was a Japanese conductor Seiji Ozawa
known internationally for his work as music director of 小澤 征爾
the Toronto Symphony Orchestra, the San Francisco
Symphony, and especially the Boston Symphony
Orchestra (BSO), where he served from 1973 for 29
years. After conducting the Vienna New Year's Concert
in 2002, he was director of the Vienna State Opera
until 2010. In Japan, he founded the Saito Kinen
Orchestra in 1984, their festival in 1992, and the Tokyo
Opera Nomori in 2005.

Ozawa rose to fame after he won the 1959 Besançon

competition. He was invited by Charles Munch, then
the music director of the BSO, for the following year
to Tanglewood, the orchestra's summer home, where
he studied with Munch and Pierre Monteux. Winning Ozawa in 1963
the festival's Koussevitzky Prize earned him a Born September 1, 1935
scholarship with Herbert von Karajan and the Berlin Mukden, Fengtian, Manchukuo
Philharmonic and brought him to the attention of
Died February 6, 2024 (aged 88)
Leonard Bernstein, who made him his assistant with
Tokyo, Japan
the New York Philharmonic in 1961. He became
artistic director of the festival and education program Nationality Japanese

in Tanglewood in 1970, together with Gunther Occupation Conductor

Schuller. In 1994, the new main hall there was named Organizations Chicago Symphony Orchestra
after him.
Toronto Symphony Orchestra

Ozawa conducted world premieres such as György San Francisco Symphony

Ligeti's San Francisco Polyphony in 1975 and Olivier Boston Symphony Orchestra
Messiaen's opera Saint François d'Assise in Paris in Saito Kinen Orchestra
1983. He received numerous international awards. Vienna State Opera
Ozawa was the first Japanese conductor recognized
Spouses Kyoko Edo
internationally and the only one of superstar status.[1] ​
​(m. 1962; div. 1966)​
Miki Irie
​
Life and career ​(m. 1968)​

Children 2, including Yukiyoshi

Awards Koussevitzky Prize
Early years Grammy Award
Suntory Music Award
Ozawa was born on September 1, 1935, to Japanese Kennedy Center Honors
parents in the Japanese-occupied Manchurian city of
Mukden, now known as Shenyang in China.[2][3][4] He began piano lessons at age seven.[1] When his
family returned to Japan in 1944, he began studying piano with Noboru Toyomasu, with a focus on the
works of Johann Sebastian Bach.

After graduating from the Seijo Junior High School in 1950, Ozawa broke two fingers in a rugby game.
Hideo Saito, his teacher at the Toho Gakuen School of Music, brought him to a performance of
Beethoven's Piano Concerto No. 5, ultimately shifting his musical focus from piano performance to
conducting. He studied conducting and composition, achieving first prizes in both fields, and worked
with the NHK Symphony Orchestra and the Japan Philharmonic while still a student.[1] He graduated in
1957.[2][5]

International success
Ozawa travelled to Europe for further studies; he supported himself by selling Japanese motor scooters.[1]
He achieved the first prize at the 1959 International Competition of Orchestra Conductors in Besançon,
France, which made him known internationally;[1][6] Charles Munch, then the music director of the
Boston Symphony Orchestra, invited him to attend the Berkshire Music Center (now the Tanglewood
Music Center) the following year to study with Munch and Pierre Monteux.[1] Shortly after his arrival
there, Ozawa won the Koussevitzky Prize for outstanding student conductor, Tanglewood's highest honor,
which earned him a scholarship to study conducting with Herbert von Karajan.[1]

Ozawa moved to West Berlin. Under the tutelage of Karajan, Ozawa caught the attention of Leonard
Bernstein, who then appointed him as assistant conductor of the New York Philharmonic, where Ozawa
served during the 1961–1962 and 1964–1965 seasons.[6] He first conducted at Carnegie Hall in 1961 and
first conducted the San Francisco Symphony in 1962.[1] Ozawa remains the only conductor to have
studied under both Karajan and Bernstein.[2] In December 1962 Ozawa was involved in a controversy
with the NHK Symphony Orchestra when some players, unhappy with his style and personality, refused
to play under him. Ozawa went on to conduct the rival Japan Philharmonic Orchestra instead.[2][7] In July
1963, Ozawa was in New York to appear as a guest conductor, and while there appeared on the American
television program What's My Line?.[8]

From 1964 until 1968, Ozawa served as the first music director of the Ravinia Festival,[1] the summer
home of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra. In 1969 he served as the festival's principal conductor.[2] He
conducted the Vienna Philharmonic first in 1966 at the Salzburg Festival.[9]

Toronto Symphony Orchestra

In his first post as music director, Ozawa led the Toronto Symphony External audio
Orchestra (TSO) from 1965 to 1969. Basically every work on the Ozawa conducts the TSO
programs, such as the symphonies by Beethoven, Tchaikovsky and in honor of the Canadian
Mahler were new for him, and he described the audience as patient and Centennial in 1967
supportive in a later interview. Concerts were held at the Massey Hall; "Canadian Music In The
they played for the opening of the new Toronto City Hall in 1965, for Twentieth Century" Here on
the Commonwealth Arts Festival in Glasgow and the Expo 67 in archive.org (https://archive.o
Montreal.[10] rg/details/lp_canadian-music-
Ozawa made notable recordings with the TSO, including the in-the-twentieth-century_seiji-
Symphonie fantastique by Berlioz in 1966, a highly lauded recording ozawa-the-toronto-symphon
by music critics. y/disc1/01.02.+A+Saint+Mal
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Messiaen's Turangalîla-Symphonie that Koussevitzky had
[11]
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commissioned and Bernstein first conducted with the BSO. In Chicago Symphony
Ozawa's version, the first in North America, Yvonne Loriod was the Orchestra in Modest
pianist as in the premiere.[11][12][13] The recording was nominated for a Mussorgsky's "Pictures At An
Grammy Award.[14] When it was reissued on CD in 2004, a reviewer Exhibition"and Benjamin
noted: "The orgiastic fifth and 10th movements still pack quite a Britten's "The Young Persons
punch, and in a very real sense, while many more modern versions Guide to the Orchestra" in
have come and gone this one still holds its own with the best of 1968
them."[15] The composer would entrust Ozawa with the premiere of his Here on archive.org (https://
opera Saint François d'Assise in Paris in 1983.[12] archive.org/details/lp_picture
s-at-an-exhibition-young-pers
In 1969 Ozawa and the Toronto Symphony Orchestra recorded an
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album of four works of Japanese composer Toru Takemitsu, Asterism
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In 1973, he took the San Francisco Symphony on a European tour, 3)
which included a Paris concert that was broadcast via satellite in stereo
to San Francisco station KKHI.

He was involved in a 1974 dispute with the San Francisco Symphony's players' committee that denied
tenure to the timpanist Elayne Jones and the bassoonist Ryohei Nakagawa, two young musicians Ozawa
had selected.[17] He was committed to contemporary music then, for example commissioning San
Francisco Polyphony from György Ligeti in 1975.[1] During the time, he impressed by "the brilliance of
his interpretations, with his supreme command of the most intimidatingly complex scores and as a
graceful, even glamorous stage performer".[1]

Boston Symphony Orchestra

In 1970, Ozawa and Gunther Schuller became artistic directors of the External audio
Berkshire Music Festival in Tanglewood, the summer home of the Ozawa conducting
Boston Symphony Orchestra (BSO).[1] Ozawa became music director Beethoven's Choral Fantasy
of the BSO in 1973. He remained in that position for 29 years, the with Rudolf Serkin and the
longest tenure of any music director there, surpassing the 25 years held Boston Symphony Orchestra
by Serge Koussevitzky.[2] He conducted more world premieres, (BSO) & Tanglewood Festival
including works by Ligeti and Tōru Takemitsu.[12] Chorus in 1982
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television series, Evening at Symphony; in 1994, he was awarded his ntasyr.SerkinOzawa1982)
second Emmy for Individual Achievement in Cultural Programming Ozawa conducting
for Dvořák in Prague: A Celebration.[18] He played a key role as a Beethoven's Piano Concerto
teacher and administrator at the Tanglewood Music Center, the Boston No. 3 with Rudolf Serkin and
Symphony Orchestra's summer music home that has programs for the BSO in 1984
young professionals and high school students.[19] In 1994, the BSO archive.org (https://archive.or
dedicated its new Tanglewood concert hall "Seiji Ozawa Hall" in honor g/details/cd_beethoven-the-fi
of his 20th season with the orchestra.[2] In recognition of his impact on ve-piano-concertos_rudolf-se
the BSO, Ozawa was named music director laureate.[20] rkin-seiji-ozawa-boston-symp
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orchestra which included the Toho Gakuen School of Music Orchestra
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Tsuyoshi Tsutsumi and solo violist Nobuko Imai in a world-wide
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telecast (carried on the PBS television network in the United States)
from the United Nations building in New York City.[21] The concert
included a work by Beethoven and Strauss's Don Quixote with the two Japanese soloists.

In December 1979, Ozawa conducted a performance of Beethoven's Ninth Symphony with the Beijing
Symphony Orchestra.[22] This was the first time since 1961 that the symphony was performed live in the
People's Republic of China due to a ban on Western music.[22]

Ozawa made his debut with the Metropolitan Opera in New York City in 1992, conducting Tchaikovsky's
Eugene Onegin (opera), in a cast with Mirella Freni as Tatyana. He returned to the house in 2008 with
The Queen of Spades, both productions described as passionate and electrifying.[23]

Ozawa created a controversy in 1996–1997 with sudden demands for change at the Tanglewood Music
Center, which made Gilbert Kalish and Leon Fleisher resign in protest.[24] Subsequent criticism by Greg
Sandow generated controversy in the press.[25][26][27]

Ozawa used an unorthodox conducting wardrobe, wearing the traditional formal dress with a white
turtleneck instead of the usual starched shirt, waistcoat, and white tie.[28]

Saito Kinen Orchestra

In an effort to merge all-Japanese orchestras and performers with international artists, Ozawa, along with
Kazuyoshi Akiyama, founded the Saito Kinen Orchestra in 1984, named after his teacher.[1] Since its
creation, the orchestra has gained a prominent position in the international music community, establishing
a festival in Matsumoto in 1992, later named the Seiji Ozawa Matsumoto Festival.[1][29] A 2013
recording from the festival of Ravel's L'enfant et les sortilèges earned Ozawa his only Grammy Award in
2016, for best opera recording.[30][14]
In 1998, Ozawa conducted a simultaneous international performance of Beethoven's Ode to Joy at the
opening ceremony of the 1998 Winter Olympics in Nagano, Japan. Ozawa conducted an orchestra and
singers in Nagano, and was joined by choruses singing from Beijing, Berlin, Cape Town, New York City,
and Sydney – as well as the crowd in the Nagano Olympic Stadium. This was the first time a
simultaneous international audio-visual performance had been achieved.[31][32][33]

Vienna State Opera

On New Year's Day 2002, Ozawa conducted the Vienna
New Year's Concert,[9] the first Japanese in a long
tradition.[2] In 2002, he stepped down from the BSO music
directorship to become principal conductor of the Vienna
State Opera.[29][34] He had conducted at the house before,
Verdi's Ernani and Tchaikovsky's Eugene Onegin in 1988,
Pique Dame in 1992 and Verdi's Falstaff in 1993, and began
his tenure with productions of Janáček's Jenůfa and
Krenek's Jonny spielt auf.[35]
Ozawa (center) and his family with US
secretary of state John Kerry at the 2015
In 2005, he founded Tokyo Opera Nomori and conducted its
Kennedy Centers Honor dinner in
production of Richard Strauss's Elektra. On February 1, Washington, D.C.
2006, the Vienna State Opera announced that he had to
cancel all his 2006 conducting engagements because of
illness, including pneumonia and shingles. He returned to conducting in March 2007 at the Tokyo Opera
Nomori. Ozawa stepped down from his post at the Vienna State Opera in 2010, to be succeeded by Franz
Welser-Möst. He was named an honorary member of the Vienna Philharmonic then.[9] In 2021, he
conducted the orchestra a last time, on a Japan tour featuring the slow movement from Mozart's
Divertimento, K. 136.[9]

Personal life
Ozawa had three brothers, Katsumi, Toshio, and Mikio, the latter External videos
becoming a music writer and radio host in Tokyo.[36] Ozawa's first Seiji Ozawa is interviewed
wife was the pianist Kyoko Edo.[1][37] His second wife was Miki Irie by Charlie Rose on PBS in
("Vera"), a Russian-Japanese former model and actress (born in 1944 1999 Here on archive.org (h
in Yokohama). He was married to her from 1968 until his death in ttps://archive.org/details/Char
2024.[1] The couple had two children, a daughter named Seira and a lie-Rose-1999-08-31)
son named Yukiyoshi.[1] During his tenure with the Boston Symphony
Orchestra, Ozawa opted to divide his time between Boston and Tokyo
rather than move his family to the United States as he and his wife wanted their children to grow up
aware of their Japanese heritage.[36]

Ozawa and the cellist and conductor Mstislav Rostropovich formed a traveling musical group during the
later stages of Rostropovich's life, with the goal of giving free concerts and mentoring students across
Japan.[37]

Illness and death

On January 7, 2010, Ozawa announced that he was canceling all engagements for six months in order to
undergo treatments for esophageal cancer.[29] The doctor with Ozawa at the time of the announcement
said it was detected at an early stage.[38][39] Ozawa's other health problems included pneumonia[29] and
lower back problems requiring surgery in 2011.[29][40] Following his cancer diagnosis, Ozawa and the
novelist Haruki Murakami embarked on a series of six conversations about classical music that form the
basis for the book Absolutely on Music.[1][41]

His last concert took place on November 22, 2022, with the Saito Kinen Orchestra where he conducted,
in a wheelchair, Beethoven's 'Egmont' Overture, which was broadcast live to Koichi Wakata, an astronaut
onboard the International Space Station.[1][42]

Ozawa died of heart failure at his home in Tokyo, on February 6, 2024, at the age of 88.[43][44]

Daniel Froschauer, speaking for the Vienna Philharmonic, wrote: "We are happy to have experienced so
many artistic highlights with Seiji Ozawa. It was a gift to be able to go on a long journey with this artist,
who was characterized by the highest musical standards and at the same time humility towards the
treasures of musical culture as well as his loving interaction with his colleagues and his charisma, which
was also felt by the audience."[9]

His obituary in The New York Times noted: "In the waning years of his life, Mr. Ozawa came to recognize
the wisdom that comes from years of music making. 'A musician's special flavor comes out with age,' he
told [Haruki] Murakami in the 2016 book of conversations. 'His playing at that stage may have more
interesting qualities than at the height of his career.' "[45]

Honorary degrees
Ozawa held honorary doctorate degrees from the Sorbonne University,[46] Harvard University,[47] the
New England Conservatory of Music, the University of Massachusetts Amherst, National University of
Music Bucharest, and Wheaton College. He was a Member of Honour of the International Music
Council.[48]

Awards and honors

1959: International Competition of Orchestra Conductors, Besançon, France[49]
1960: Koussevitzky Prize for Outstanding Student Conductor, Tanglewood[50]
1976: Emmy Award for Evening at Symphony[18]
1992: Hans von Bülow Medal (given by the Berlin Philharmonic)[51]
1994: Emmy for Dvořák in Prague[18]
1994: Inouye Award, Japan[52]
1994: Inauguration of Seiji Ozawa Hall at Tanglewood, the BSO's summer home in
Massachusetts, where he also taught for the International Academy of Young Musicians[53]
1997: Musician of the Year (Musical America)[54]
1998: Chevalier of the Légion d'honneur (France), for the promotion of French
composers[55]
 2001: Member of the Académie des Beaux-Arts of the Institut de France (Given by French
President Jacques Chirac)[56]
2001: Person of Cultural Merit, Japan[57]
2002: Doctor honoris causa, National University of Music Bucharest, Romania[58]
2002: Austrian Cross of Honour for Science and Art, 1st class[59] (Given by Austrian
President Thomas Klestil)
2002: Les Victoires de la Musique Classique (French CD prize)[60]
2002: 34th Suntory Music Award (2002)[61]
2003: Mainichi Art Award and Suntory Music Prize[62]
2008: Order of Culture, Japan[57]
2009: Grand Decoration of Honour in Silver for Services to the Republic of Austria[63]
2011: Praemium Imperiale, Japan[64]
2012: Tanglewood Medal awarded, In Honor Of Tanglewood 75th Season, BSO begins new
tradition with first-ever medal awarded to Seiji Ozawa, BSO Music Director Laureate,[65]
Tanglewood
2015: Kennedy Center Honoree[66]
2016: Grammy Award for Best Opera Recording[14]
2016: Honorary Member of the Berlin Philharmonic[67]

Discography
Source:[68] External audio
Bartók: Ozawa conducting
Tchaikovsky's
The Miraculous Mandarin, Op. 19, Sz. 73 (suite); Music The Queen of Spades with
for Strings, Percussion and Celesta. BSO, 1977 – DG
Vladimir Atlantov, Mirella
The Miraculous Mandarin, Concerto for Orchestra. BSO,
Freni and the Boston
1994 – Philips
Symphony Orchestra in 1992
Music for Strings, Percussion and Celesta; Viola
Concerto. Berlin Philharmonic, 1992, 1989 – DG archive.org (https://archive.o
rg/details/FridayNightAtTheO
Berlioz:
pera-6410)
Symphonie fantastique. Toronto Symphony Orchestra,
1966 – RCA / Boston Symphony Orchestra, 1973 – DG
Roméo et Juliette. BSO, 1976 – DG
Grande Messe des Morts. BSO, 1993 – RCA
La damnation de Faust. Tanglewood Festival Chorus, BSO, Edith Mathis, Stuart
Burrows, Donald McIntyre, 1974 – DG
Nuits d'été. BSO, Frederica von Stade, 1984 – Sony
Brahms: Symphony No. 1. BSO, 1977 – DG
Debussy: La damoiselle élue, Tanglewood Festival Chorus, BSO, Susanne Mentzer,
Frederica von Stade, 1984 – Sony
Dutilleux: The Shadows of Time. BSO, 1998 – Erato
Dvořák:
Dvořák in Prague: A Celebration. Prague Philharmonic Chorus, Boston Symphony
Orchestra, Rudolf Firkušný, Yo-Yo Ma, Itzhak Perlman, Frederica von Stade, 1994 –
 Sony, and 2007 – Kultur Video
Cello Concerto in B minor. Mstislav Rostropovich, Boston Symphony Orchestra, 1987 –
Erato
Falla: El sombrero de tres picos. BSO, Teresa Berganza, 1977 – DG
Franck: Symphony in D minor. BSO, 1993 – DG
Ives: Symphony No. 4; Central Park in the Dark. BSO, 1976 – DG
Lalo: Symphonie espagnole. Anne-Sophie Mutter, violin, Orchestre National de France,
1984 – EMI
Liszt: Piano Concertos Nos. 1 & 2, Totentanz. Krystian Zimerman, piano. BSO, 1987 – DG
Mahler:
Symphony No. 1; Blumine. BSO, 1977 – DG
Symphony No. 8. BSO, Tanglewood Festival Chorus, 1981 – Philips
Symphony No. 9. Saito Kinen Orchestra. Recorded in Tokyo January 2–4, 2001. Sony.
Mendelssohn: A Midsummer Night's Dream. Tanglewood Festival Chorus, BSO, Kathleen
Battle, Judi Dench, Frederica von Stade, 1994 – DG
Messiaen: Turangalîla-Symphonie. Toronto Symphony Orchestra, Yvonne Loriod, 1967 –
RCA
Orff: Carmina Burana. New England Conservatory Chorus, BSO, Evelyn Mandac, Stanley
Kolk, Sherrill Milnes, 1970 – RCA
Panufnik: Sinfonia Votiva (Symphony No. 8). Boston Symphony Orchestra, 1982 – Hyperion
Poulenc
Concerto for Organ, Strings and Timpani. BSO, Simon Preston, 1993 – DG
Gloria; Stabat Mater. Kathleen Battle, BSO, 1987 – DG
Prokofiev:
Piano Concerto No. 2, Yundi, piano. Berlin Philharmonic, 2007 – DG
Symphonie Concertante. Mstislav Rostropovich, London Symphony Orchestra, 1987 –
Erato
Symphonies. Berlin Philharmonic, 1989–1992 – DG
Ravel:
Shéhérazade. BSO, Frederica von Stade, 1981 – Sony
Boléro; Rhapsodie espagnole; Valses nobles et sentimentales; Ma mère l'Oye; Menuet
antique; Le Tombeau de Couperin; La valse; Alborada del gracioso; Miroirs; Pavane
pour une infante défunte; Daphnis et Chloé. BSO, 1974–1975 – DG
Piano Concerto in G. Yundi, Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra, 2007 – DG
Respighi:
Ancient Airs and Dances, 1979 – DG
Roman Festivals; Fountains of Rome; Pines of Rome. BSO, 1978 – DG
Russo: Three Pieces for Blues Band and Symphony Orchestra; San Francisco Symphony,
1972 – DG
Saint-Saens: Symphony No. 3; Phaeton; Le Rouet d'Omphale. Philippe Lefebvre, organ.
National Orchestra of France, 1986 – EMI
Sarasate: Zigeunerweisen. Anne-Sophie Mutter, National Orchestra of France, 1984 – EMI
Sessions: Concerto for Orchestra. BSO, 1982 – Hyperion
Shostakovich: Cello Concerto No. 1. Rostropovich, London Symphony Orchestra, 1987 –
Erato
 Stravinsky:
Oedipus rex. Peter Schreier, Jessye Norman, Jocasta. Saito Kinen Orchestra, 1992 –
Philips
Suite from The Firebird; Petrouchka. BSO, 1970 – RCA
The Firebird (1910 version). Orchestre de Paris, 1973 – EMI
The Rite of Spring. Chicago Symphony Orchestra, 1968 – RCA
Takemitsu:
Quatrain (with Tashi); A Flock Descends into the Pentagonal Garden. BSO, 1980 – DG
Asterism For Piano And Orchestra, Requiem For String Orchestra, Green For Orchestra
(November Steps II), and The Dorian Horizon For 17 Strings. Toronto Symphony
Orchestra, 1969 – RCA
Tchaikovsky:
Symphony No. 4, Berlin Philharmonic, 1989 – DG 427 354–4 (cassette)
Symphony No. 5. BSO, 1977 – DG
Symphonie No. 6. BSO, 1986 – Erato
Variations on a Rococo Theme. BSO, 1987 – Erato
Vivaldi: The Four Seasons. BSO, 1982 – Telarc

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Further reading
"A Tribute to Seiji Ozawa" (https://www.bso.org/stories/a-tribute-to-seiji-ozawa). Boston
Symphony Orchestra. February 6, 2024. Retrieved February 9, 2024.

External links
Seiji Ozawa (https://www.allmusic.com/artist/q44503) at AllMusic
Seiji Ozawa (https://www.discogs.com/artist/Seiji+Ozawa) discography at Discogs
Seiji Ozawa (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0654724/) at IMDb
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ji.htm). Bach-cantatas.com. Archived (https://web.archive.org/web/20231005215623/https://
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Seiji Ozawa – Photographs and video interviews on gettyimages.com (https://www.gettyima
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rt=mostpopular)

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