# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/yuzo-toyama
# Generated: 2026-08-15T05:15:16.190Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/yuzo-toyama"
name: "Yūzō Toyama"
slug: "yuzo-toyama"
description: "Yūzō Toyama  was a Japanese composer and conductor. A native of Tokyo, he was a pupil of Kan'ichi Shimofusa; he studied conducting with Kurt Wöss and Wilhelm Loibner and, like them, later became a conductor of the NHK Symphony Orchestra. As a conductor he served with numerous orchestras throughout Japan; as a composer his prime influences are Béla Bartók and Dmitri Shostakovich. Mstislav Rostropovich performed the world premiere of the composer's six-movement 1967 First Cello Concerto, a piece described by Gramophone as \"attractive\", with the additional comment that it \"sounds like Japanese folk music rendered orchestral by Kodaly\". His best-known work is a Rhapsody for Orchestra based on Japanese folk songs. Toyama won the Suntory Music Award in 1982."
tagline: "Japanese composer and conductor"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Japan"
  isoCode: "JP"
category:
  name: "Musicians"
  slug: "musicians"
profileType:
  name: "Singer / Musician"
  slug: "singer"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q177220"
birthDate: "1931-05-10"
deathDate: "2023-07-11"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           48.47
  momentum:             3.242574257425743
  historical:           8.391113333333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     59.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm7240762/"
    handle:    "nm7240762"
sources:
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    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%8A%D8%A7%D9%88%D8%B2%D9%88_%D8%AA%D9%88%D9%8A%D8%A7%D9%85%D8%A7"
    title: "ياوزو توياما"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://da.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yuzo_Toyama"
    title: "Yuzo Toyama"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Y%C5%ABz%C5%8D_Toyama"
    title: "Yūzō Toyama"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yuzo_Toyama"
    title: "Yuzo Toyama"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Y%C5%ABz%C5%8D_Toyama"
    title: "Yūzō Toyama"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E5%A4%96%E5%B1%B1%E9%9B%84%E4%B8%89"
    title: "外山雄三"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yuzo_Toyama"
    title: "Yuzo Toyama"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://musicbrainz.org/artist/36022d14-f085-4e8d-adac-180112e56aa7"
    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q323475"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/4396816"
    title: "Yuzo Toyama"
    type:  "DATABASE"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump