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Sofia Gubaidulina
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Soviet and Russian composer (1931–2025)
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Sofia Gubaidulina was a Russian female composer and author. Born on October 24, 1931, she passed away on March 13, 2025. Her musical output is categorized under contemporary classical, avant-garde, and classical genres. She is associated with the Russian musical tradition.
Her recorded works include "Waltz by Johann Strauss for Piano and String Quartet," "Song Without Words and Two Ballads," "Roses," "Two piano sonatas," and "Selected Piano Works." Open Library lists seven works attributed to her, while Crossref records five. Her music has been tagged by listeners with descriptors such as contemporary classical, avant-garde, classical, and Russian composer.
Synthesized by Vinony from 19 facts across 6 sources: Wikidata, Last.fm, MusicBrainz, Open Library, Crossref, Vinony graph. Generated from structured data (not the Wikipedia text) and checked against those facts — may still contain errors.
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
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Part of
- Khrennikov's Seven
- Given name
- Sofia
- Gender
- female
- Citizenship
- Russia
- Place of birth
- Chistopol
- Place of death
- Appen
- Educated at
- Moscow Conservatory
- Languages spoken
- Spanish
- Religion
- Eastern Orthodox Church
- Student of
- Nikolay Peyko
- Field of work
- film score
- Genre
- classical music
- Instrument
- piano
- Record label
- Melodiya
- Image
- Sofia Gubaidulina (2016-11-03).jpg
- Work location
- Soviet Union
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- Commons category
- Sofia Gubaidulina
- date of birth
- 1931-10-24
- member of
- American Academy of Arts and Letters
- Commons gallery
- Sofia Gubaidulina
- related category
- Category:Compositions by 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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Encyclopedic overview
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).
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Sofia Gubaidulina” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.