Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 25. Chapters: Seiji Ozawa, Koichi Sugiyama, Missa Johnouchi, Ichiro Fujiyama, Yoshikazu Fukumura, Toshiyuki Shimada, Katsuhisa Hattori, Hidemaro Konoye, Kosaku Yamada, Heiichiro Ohyama, Tomomi Nishimoto, Akira Endo, Ken-Ichiro Kobayashi, Kazushi Ono, Junichi Hirokami, Hiroyuki Iwaki, Yasuhide Ito, Eiji Oue, Takuo Yuasa, Hiroshi Wakasugi, Chosei Komatsu, Shigeru Kan-no, Tadaaki Otaka, Masaaki Suzuki, Yutaka Sado, Toshiyuki Kamioka, Morihiko Nakahara, Joji Hattori, Akeo Watanabe, Kazuyoshi Akiyama, Masao Mukai, Takashi Asahina, Kazuhiro Koizumi, Klaus Pringsheim, Sr., Yuzo Toyama, Ko Matsushita, Kazuo Yamada, Tadashi Mori. Excerpt: Seiji Ozawa Ozawa Seiji, born September 1, 1935) is a Japanese conductor, particularly noted for his interpretations of large-scale late Romantic works. He is most known for his work as music director of the Boston Symphony Orchestra and principal conductor of the Vienna State Opera. Seiji Ozawa was born on September 1, 1935 to Japanese parents in the city of Shenyang, Manchukuo in what is now northeastern China. When his family returned to Japan in 1944, he began studying piano with Noboru Toyomasu, heavily studying the works of Johann Sebastian Bach. After graduating from the Seijo Junior High School in 1950, Ozawa sprained his finger in a rugby game. Unable to continue studying the piano, his teacher at the Toho Gakuen School of Music (Hideo Saito), brought Ozawa to a life-changing performance of Beethoven's Symphony No. 5, which ultimately shifted his musical focus from piano performance to conducting. Almost a decade after the sports injury, Ozawa won the first prize at the International Competition of Orchestra Conductors in Besançon, France. His success in France led to an invitation by Charles Münch, then the music director of the Boston Symphony Orchestra, to attend the Berkshire Music Center (n...