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Kaija Saariaho
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Finnish composer (1952–2023)
Person · Open Library
- Works
- 20
Top works
- NoaNoa for Flute and Electronics
- Prisma
- Sarriaho
- Le passage des frontières
- al-Umm Adrīyānā
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Film & TV
Sound · Helsinki, Finland
Kaija Saariaho is a Finnish composer of contemporary classical music and opera.
Known for
- The Echoes of the Universe – The Music of Kaija Saariaho — Self2023
- Kaija im Porträt - Konzert und Dokumentation — Self2022
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Music · MusicBrainz
- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Female
- Origin
- France
- Active from
- 1952
- Active to
- 2023
Discography
- A Portrait of Kaija Saariaho1985
- Lichtbogen / Io / Verblendungen / Stilleben1989
- Maa1992
- Du Cristal / …À La Fumée / Nymphéa1993
- Private Gardens1997
- La Dame à la Licorne / Cloud Music1998
- Meet the Composer: Kaija Saariaho1999
- From the Grammar of Dreams2000
- New Gates2000
- Château de l'âme / Graal théâtre / Amers2001
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Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 43,317
- Total plays
- 388,823
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Kaija Saariaho (* 14. October 1952 in Helsinki; † 2. June 2023 in Paris) was a Finnish composer. For 13 years Saariaho attended the Helsinki Rudolf Steiner School, a school with a strong arts and music curriculum, and studied violin and piano at the Sibelius Academy. She later studied composition in Freiburg (under Brian Ferneyhough and Klaus Huber) and at IRCAM in Paris, where she has lived since 1982. Saariaho was influenced by post-serialism <a href="https://www.last.fm/music/Kaija+Saariah
Recent publications · Crossref
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Key facts
- Born
- Kaija Laakkonen , ( 1952-10-14 ) 14 October 1952, Helsinki , Finland
- Died
- 2 June 2023 (2023-06-02) (aged 70), Paris, France
- Era
- Contemporary
- Works
- List of compositions
- Spouse
- Jean-Baptiste Barrière [ de ; fr ] ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. 1984 )
- Children
- 2, incl. Aleksi Barrière
- Website
- https://saariaho.org/
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Anneli
- Gender
- female
- Citizenship
- France
- Place of birth
- Helsinki
- Place of death
- 8th arrondissement of Paris
- Occupation
- conductor
- Educated at
- Sibelius Academy
- Languages spoken
- German
- Native language
- Finnish
- Student of
- Brian Ferneyhough
- Field of work
- music
- Genre
- opera
- Official website
- saariaho.org
- Image
- Kaija Saariaho in 2022.png
- Number of children
- 2
- Work location
- Helsinki
- Residence
- Paris
Show 13 more facts
- date of birth
- 1952-10-14
- member of
- Académie des beaux-arts
- birth name
- Kaija Anneli Laakkonen
- married name
- Kaija Anneli Saariaho
- described at URL
- www.wisemusicclassical.com/composer/1350/Kaija-Saariaho
- Commons category
- Kaija Saariaho
- related category
- Category:Compositions by Kaija Saariaho
- date of death
- 2023-06-02
- cause of death
- glioblastoma
- manner of death
- natural causes
- name in native language
- Kaija Saariaho
- medical condition
- glioblastoma
- P12674
- Avicennia
Sources (12)
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Works in European collections
1 object attributed to Kaija Saariaho, held across European museums, libraries & archives · via Europeana
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Encyclopedic overview
Kaija Anneli Saariaho ( Finnish: [ˈkɑi̯jɑ ˈsɑːriɑho]; née Laakkonen; 14 October 1952 – 2 June 2023) was a Finnish composer based in Paris, France. During the course of her career, Saariaho received commissions from the Lincoln Center for the Kronos Quartet and from IRCAM for the Ensemble Intercontemporain, the BBC, the New York Philharmonic, the Salzburg Music Festival, the Théâtre du Châtelet in Paris, and the Finnish National Opera, among others. In a 2019 composers' poll by BBC Music Magazine, Saariaho was ranked the greatest living composer.
Saariaho studied composition in Helsinki, Freiburg, and Paris, where she also lived since 1982. Her research at the Institute for Research and Coordination in Acoustics/Music (IRCAM) marked a turning point in her music away from strict serialism towards spectralism. Her characteristically rich, polyphonic textures are often created by combining live music and electronics.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Kaija Saariaho” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.