Tomita found a lasting pull
towards the French impressionist composers. He describes the music as a painter
who mixes colours on a palate, to produce a wash of sound. He felt the early
synthesizers had the potential to mimic any sound one could possibly imagine.
It was this flair Tomita had of creating a vast soundscape of music to emulate
these composers.
“Even after composing such pieces as the Tale of Genji,
which uses an orchestra as well as synthesizers, I still have a sympathetic
feeling towards the music of the French impressionists, particularly Ravel's
'Daphnis et Chloe'. French composers of the period are somehow different from
their contemporaries in other countries, and that might be due to the influence
of Japanese court music, which was heard at the Great Exposition in Paris at
the turn of the century. I strongly feel that composers such as Debussy and Ravel
might well have been influenced by this music, even subconsciously. So, I feel
that I have something in common, some kind of empathy with such composers.”
(Tomita)[1]
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