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Sofia Gubaidulina
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Soviet and Russian composer (1931–2025)
Person · Open Library
- Works
- 7
Top works
- Waltz by Johann Strauss for Piano and String Quartet
- Song Without Words and Two Ballads
- Roses
- Two piano sonatas
- Selected Piano Works
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Music · MusicBrainz
- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Female
- Origin
- Russia
- Active from
- 1931-10-24
- Active to
- 2025-03-13
Discography
- Denisov / Schnittke / Gubaidulina / Mansurian1983
- Offertorium1989
- Genzmer / Nielsen / Gubaidulina / Debussy1991
- In Croce1991
- Chamber Music1992
- Modern Trumpet1992
- Górecki : Lerchenmusik / Gubaidulina: Punkte, Linien Und Zickzack1993
- Modern Portraits II1993
- Offertorium / Freue Dich1993
- Symphony "Stimmen... Verstummen" / Stufen1993
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- 45,720
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- 393,143
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Sofia Asgatovna Gubaidulina, (Tatar Saniya Äsğät qızı Ğobäydullina, Russian София Асгатовна Губайдулина) (24 October 1931-13 March 2025) is a Soviet-Tatar composer. Lives in Germany since 1991. Gubaidulina was born in Chistopol, in the Tatar Republic. She studied composition and piano at the Kazan Conservatory, graduating in 1954. In Moscow she undertook further studies at the Conservatory with Nikolay Peyko until 1959, and then with Shebalin until 1963. <a href="https://www.last.fm/music/Sofi
Key facts
- Born
- ( 1931-10-24 ) 24 October 1931, Chistopol , Tatar ASSR, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union
- Died
- 13 March 2025 (2025-03-13) (aged 93), Appen , Schleswig-Holstein, Germany
- Occupation
- Composer
- Works
- List of compositions
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- Sofia Gubaidulina (2016-11-03).jpg
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- Sofia Gubaidulina
- date of birth
- 1931-10-24
- Commons gallery
- Sofia Gubaidulina
- P8168
- Profumo
- P12674
- Eugen Hultsch
- date of death
- 2025-03-13
- described at URL
- baike.sogou.com/v155780.htm
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Article
Sofia Asgatovna Gubaidulina (24 October 1931 – 13 March 2025) was a Soviet and Russian composer of modernist sacred music. She was highly prolific, producing numerous chamber, orchestral and choral works. Her output has been described as exploring the tensions between Western and Eastern music, and has been characterised by "innovative use of microtonality and chromaticism, rhythm over form and use of contrasting tonalities.
Her compositions have been praised for their "emotional intensity", while she described her music as bringing legato, that is, a sense of "connected flow into the fragmented staccato of life." Alongside Alfred Schnittke, Arvo Pärt and Edison Denisov, Gubaidulina was considered one of the foremost composers of the former Soviet Union who were disfavoured by the authorities including the KGB, but whose work became frequently commissioned and performed by major international orchestras, with her first major breakthrough being her violin concerto Offertorium (1980).