Born in 1931, Sofia Gubaidulina was born in the Tatar Republic of the Soviet Union and studied piano and composition at the Kazan Conservatory before she moved to Moscow to study composition at the Moscow Conservatory. Though she wrote music to several films, until the political situation changed in her native Russia, Gubaidulina struggled in obscurity as a composer, and her music was officially rebuffed by government-controlled cultural institutions for over 25 years.
Gubaidulina was relatively unknown in the West until the 1980s.Although she now lives in Germany, she has been deemed Russia’s greatest living composer. In 2002 the Royal Swedish Academy of Music awarded her its esteemed Polar Music Prize in recognition of the years her career languished due to political tyranny.
Sounds of the forest is written in a style where the composer uses a musical language well-known to the listener but in a new way. It was composed in 1978 when Gubaidulina lived and worked in the Soviet Union and had very few contacts with the West. Kaori Fujii
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Sofia Gubaidulina
Sounds of the Forest Play
Recorded on 02/06/2013, uploaded on 07/11/2013
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Born in 1931, Sofia Gubaidulina was born in the Tatar Republic of the Soviet Union and studied piano and composition at the Kazan Conservatory before she moved to Moscow to study composition at the Moscow Conservatory. Though she wrote music to several films, until the political situation changed in her native Russia, Gubaidulina struggled in obscurity as a composer, and her music was officially rebuffed by government-controlled cultural institutions for over 25 years.
Gubaidulina was relatively unknown in the West until the 1980s. Although she now lives in Germany, she has been deemed Russia’s greatest living composer. In 2002 the Royal Swedish Academy of Music awarded her its esteemed Polar Music Prize in recognition of the years her career languished due to political tyranny.
Sounds of the forest is written in a style where the composer uses a musical language well-known to the listener but in a new way. It was composed in 1978 when Gubaidulina lived and worked in the Soviet Union and had very few contacts with the West. Kaori Fujii
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