Sofia Gubaidulina

✶October 24, 1931

†March 13, 2025

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About their life

Sofia Asgatovna Gubaidulina 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.

Soviet and Russian composer (1931–2025)

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Biography from the article Sofia Gubaidulina on the English Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.