Fumio Hayasaka

Fumio Hayasaka (早坂文雄 Hayasaka Fumio August 19, 1914 - October 15, 1955) was a Japanese composer of classical music and film scores. Hayasaka was born in Sendai on the main Japanese island of Honshū. In 1918, Hayasaka and his family moved to Sapporo on the northern island of Hokkaidō. He was a church organist as a young man and wrote his first original composition, Prelude for Two Hymns, in 1936. Other early works include a Nocturne (1936) for piano and the orchestral Ancient Dance (1938).