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- Toshi Ichiyanagi was born on February 4, 1933 in Kobe, Japan. He was a composer, known for Farewell to the Summer Light (1968), A Story Written with Water (1965) and Wangan dôro (1984). He was married to Sumiko and Yoko Ono. He died on October 7, 2022 in Tokyo, Japan.
- SpousesSumiko(1963 - 1993) (her death, 1 child)Yoko Ono(1956 - 1962) (divorced)
- First husband of Yoko Ono.
- After WWII, he was hired to play piano at an American military base, performing everything from Broadway songs to Strauss waltzes. Here he was exposed to jazz music for the first time.
- His father was a cellist and his mother was a pianist.
- He attended the University of Minnesota. During the summers, he took classes at Tanglewood in western Massachusetts with composer Aaron Copland.
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