Minao Shibata
柴田 南雄
Born	(1916-09-29)September 29, 1916 Tokyo
Died	February 2, 1996(1996-02-02) (aged 79) Tokyo
Occupation	composer

Minao Shibata (柴田 南雄,Shibata Minao); September 29, 1916, Tokyo – February 2, 1996, Tokyo) was a Japanese composer.

Minao studiedbotany atTokyo University, graduating in 1939, and made further studies in the fine arts while studying music privately withSaburo Moroi and playing cello as a member of theTokyo String Orchestra. His early works are mostly for chamber groups and are indebted toRomanticism.

In 1948, he took a position as a professor of theory atTōhō Gakuen School of Music, working there through 1955; he also taught atOchanomizu Women's College in 1952, remaining there until 1959. He began incorporating elements ofserialism andmusique concrete in the 1950s, and wrote for increasingly larger orchestral forces.

Shibata accepted a professorship atTokyo University of the Arts in 1959, where he remained until 1969, and while there his compositions incorporated aspects ofaleatory music. He wrote pieces which used graphic or artistic scoring notations and made use ofmicrotonal sonorities. From 1973 he composed theater works which combined elements of Japanese folk music with European-derived song structures.

Shibata also write extensively on music history and theory, and was an editor ofThe New Grove's Japanese edition.

• Masakata Kanazawa, "Minao Shibata".The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, 2nd edition.

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