Corona for pianist(s) premiered by Yuji Takahashi andToshi Ichiyanagi in Tokyo on February 1962. It is an experimental classical composition and the player is requested to play the music though he is at liberty to repeat the same piece if necessaryand not to follow the numerical order.

Toru Takemitsu tends to the universal through the large range of forms and instrumental groups that he has handled: orchestral music with or without a soloist, aleatory music, vocal and choral music,chamber