Toshio Hosokawa studied in Tokyo and in Germany (with Isang Yun, among others). His first opera 'Vision of Lear' had its first performance at the 1998 Munich Festival, where it was highly praised as '...
In this work the organ takes the place of the Sho, a Japanese mouth-organ which is part of the Gagaku orchestra. The sounds and chords made by the right and the left hand and by the pedals represent t...
