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Title

Sofia Gubaidulina : a biography / Michael Kurtz ; foreword by Mstislav Rostropovich ; translated by Christoph K. Lohmann ; edited by Malcolm Hamrick Brown.

Author

Kurtz, Michael, 1948-

Publication

Bloomington : Indiana University Press, c2007.

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Additional Authors

• Brown, Malcolm Hamrick
• Brown, Malcolm Hamrick.

Description

xviii, 335 p. : ill., music; 25 cm.

Summary

Russian composer Sofia Gubaidulina (1931- ) has achieved international acclaim for her unique musical oeuvre which draws on Eastern and Western musical traditions. This text places her life and the evolution of her work within the broader cultural and political context of the post-Stalin Soviet Union.

Series Statement

Russian music studies

Uniform Title

• Sofia Gubaidulina. English
• Russian music studies (Bloomington, Ind.)

Alternative Title

Sofia Gubaidulina.

Subject

• Gubaidulina, Sofia, 1931-
• Composers > Biography

Genre/Form

Biographies

Note

• Translated from the German.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 313-318) and index.
• "List of works": p. 275-293.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Ancestors -- Childhood and youth, 1932-1949 -- At the Kazan Conservatory, 1949-1954 -- At the Moscow Conservatory, 1954-1959 -- Searching for her own way, 1959-1965 -- A late artistic birth, 1965-1970 -- Finding the legato in the staccato of life, 1970-1975 -- Composing and improvising, 1975-1979 -- Offertorium--a musical offering, 1979-1981 -- The rhythm of musical form, 1981-1985 -- Travels, travels, and more travels, 1985-1991 -- Worldwide fame, worldwide demand, 1991-1996 -- The center of life: St. John Passion and St. John Easter, 1996-2004.

ISBN

• 9780253349071 (cloth : alk. paper)
• 0253349079 (cloth : alk. paper)

LCCN

^^2006102062

OCLC

• 77504033
• SCSB-10492191

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library