Sofia Gubaidulina
Sofia Gubaidulina Asgatowna (Russian: София Асгатовна Губайдулина, scientific transliteration Sofija Asgatovna Gubaidulina, Sofia Tatar Äsğät Qizi Ğöbäydullina; * October 24, 1931 in Autonomous Tschistopol, Tatar Soviet Republic) is a Russian composer.
Life
Sofia Gubaidulina was born in the city Tschistopol the Tatar Autonomous Republic in a Tatar - Russian family. Her father, Gubaidulin Asgat Masgudowitsch, was an engineer - surveyor. The mother, Gubaidulina Fedossija Fedorovna, born Jelchowa, was a teacher. The grandfather, Masgud Gubaidulin, Mullah was. Gubajdulina itself committed to the Russian Orthodox faith. In 1932 the family moved to Kazan. Gubaidulina studied composition and piano at the Conservatory of Kazan and led after the completion of her studies in Moscow in 1954 and 1963 continued. As a student she was awarded a Stalin scholarship. During these studies, their music has been called " faithless ", but Dmitri Shostakovich encouraged them to continue their "wrong track ".
In the mid-1970s Gubaidulina founded together with the composers Viktor Suslin and Vyacheslav Artyomov the ensemble Astraea, the improvised instruments on the Russian folk music.
Your success in the West (later also by de Leeuw ) primarily supported by Gidon Kremer, of her violin concerto Offertory premiered in 1981. For two decades, Sofia Gubaidulina belongs together with Alfred Schnittke and Edison Denisov 's leading, world-renowned Russian composers of the era by Shostakovich.
In 2000, Gubaidulina received together with Tan Dun, Osvaldo Golijov, and Wolfgang Rihm by the International Bach Academy in Stuttgart a commission on the project Passion 2000 ( in memory of JS Bach). Their contribution was a St. John's Passion. Followed in 2002 by the composition of St. John Easter. Both works form a diptych of death and resurrection of Christ; the most comprehensive work to date Gubaidulina. The second violin concerto In tempus praesens dedicated Anne -Sophie Mutter. In 2003 she was invited by Walter Fink, the first woman music festival in 2003 occurred at the annual composer's portrait of the Rheingau.
Sofia Gubaidulina has lived since 1992 in Germany and lives in Appen (Pinneberg ). She is a member of the Academy of Arts in Berlin, the Freie Akademie der Künste in Hamburg and the Royal Swedish Academy of Music in Stockholm and an honorary member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters. In 1990 she was appointed a member of the Committee for awarding the Lenin prices. In 1999 she was inducted into the Order Pour le Mérite. Since 2001 she is an honorary professor of the Conservatory of Kazan, since 2005. Well at the conservatories in Beijing and Tianjin
Works
- String Quartet No. 1 (1971 )
- Benedetto II for Cello and thirteen instruments ( 1972)
- Concerto for bassoon and low strings (1975 )
- Duosonate for two bassoons (1977 )
- Lamento for Tuba and Piano ( 1977)
- De Profundis for bayan solo ( 1978)
- Introit for Piano and Orchestra ( 1978)
- In croce for bayan and cello (1979 )
- Garden of Joy and Sorrow for flute, viola and harp (1980 )
- Offertory Violin Concerto, dedicated to Gidon Kremer, UA: May 30, 1981 in Vienna
- Rejoice! Sonata for Violin and Cello ( 1981)
- Silenzio Five Pieces for bayan, violin and cello (1981 )
- Seven Words of Jesus on the cross for cello, bayan and strings (1982 )
- Quasi hoquetus for viola, bassoon and piano (1984 /85)
- Et Exspecto. Sonata for bayan solo ( 1985)
- Symphony voices ... silent ... (1986 )
- Hommage à T.S. Eliot for Octet and Soprano (1987 )
- String Quartet No. 2 (1987 )
- String Quartet No. 3 (1987 )
- String Trio (1988 )
- Alleluia Symphony (1990 )
- Silenzio. Five Pieces for bayan, violin and cello (1991 )
- Now, more snow. Five pieces for narrator, chamber ensemble and chamber choir on texts by Gennadi Aigi (1993 )
- String Quartet No. 4 ( 1993) ( with sound on tape )
- Music for Flute, Strings and Percussion ( 1994)
- From the visions of Hildegard of Bingen. For Contraalt Solo ( 1994)
- Concerto for Viola and Orchestra ( 1997)
- The Canticle for Cello, Choir, Percussion and Celesta (1997) (1998 premiere with Mstislav Rostropovich )
- Two Paths ( two-way ) - A Dedication to Mary and Martha (1999), for two violas and orchestra. Version for 2 cellos and orchestra by John X. Schachtner (2014)
- St. John Passion (2000 in Russian)
- St. John Easter (2001 in Russian)
- Under the Sign of Scorpio. Variations on six hexachords for bayan and orchestra ( 2003)
- On the edge of the abyss for seven cellos and two Water Phones
- Glorious Percussion, concerto for percussion ensemble and orchestra ( premiered in 2008 )
- Chaconne for Piano ( 1963)