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(Zo-fya Goo’-ba-du’-lena) b. 1931 Russian composer Gubaydulina’s innovative works have grown from her belief in the spiritual power of music. She creates a mesmerizing sound-world that explores many different structures and sonorities, often using traditional instruments. One of her best-known works is the violin concerto Offertorium (1980), which elaborates the king’s theme from J. S. Bach’s Musical Offering. Garten von ...

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musical personality. Recommended Recording: Frankenstein!!, Nebelsteinmusik, 3 MOB Stücke, Ernst Kovacic, Camerata Academica Salzburg (cond) Franz Welser-Möst (EMI/Warner) Introduction | Contemporary | Classical Personalities | Sofiya Gubaydulina | Contemporary | Classical ...

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the Moscow Conservatory, and won the International Viola Competition, Munich, in 1976. He has given the first performance of viola concertos by Schnittke (Amsterdam, 1986) and Gubaydulina (Chicago, 1997) and of Britten’s Double Concerto for violin and viola with Gidon Kremer (Manchester, 1998). Introduction | Contemporary | Classical Personalities | Joshua Bell | Contemporary | ...

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composers: John Tavener (1944–2013) and Arvo Pärt (b. 1935) have drawn on the Eastern Orthodox tradition, Henryk Górecki (1933–2010) and James Macmillan (b. 1959) on Roman Catholicism and Sofiya Gubaydulina (b. 1931) on elements of both. The Age of Mass Production A musical culture already dominated by recording received further impetus with the arrival of the compact disc in the ...