Sofia Asgatovna Gubaidulina is a Soviet-Russian composer and an established international figure.
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25 Facts About Sofia Gubaidulina
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Sofia Gubaidulina's is considered one of the foremost Russian composers of the second half of the 20th century.
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Sofia Gubaidulina was born in Chistopol, Tatar Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic, Russian SFSR, to an ethnically mixed family of a Volga Tatar father and an ethnic Russian mother.
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Sofia Gubaidulina quickly learned to keep her spiritual interests secret from her parents and other adults since the Soviet Union was against any religious ideas.
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Sofia Gubaidulina's studied composition and piano at the Kazan Conservatory, graduating in 1954.
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Sofia Gubaidulina's was supported by Dmitri Shostakovich, who in evaluating her final examination encouraged her to continue down her path despite others calling it "mistaken".
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Sofia Gubaidulina's was allowed to express her modernism in various scores she composed for documentary films, including the 1963 production, On Submarine Scooters, a 70mm film shot in the unique Kinopanorama widescreen format.
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Sofia Gubaidulina's composed the score to the well-known Russian animated picture "Adventures of Mowgli" .
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Sofia Gubaidulina became better known abroad during the early 1980s through Gidon Kremer's championing of her violin concerto Offertorium.
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Sofia Gubaidulina's later composed an homage to T S Eliot, using the text from the poet's Four Quartets.
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Sofia Gubaidulina is a devout member of the Russian Orthodox church.
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Profoundly spiritual person, Sofia Gubaidulina defines "re-ligio" as re-legato or as restoration of the connection between oneself and the Absolute.
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Sofia Gubaidulina's finds this re-connection through the artistic process and has developed a number of musical symbols to express her ideals.
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Sofia Gubaidulina's music is characterised by the use of unusual instrumental combinations.
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Melodically, Sofia Gubaidulina's is characterized by the frequent use of intense chromatic motives rather than long melodic phrases.
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Harmonically, Sofia Gubaidulina's music resists traditional tonal centers and triadic structures in favor of pitch clusters and intervallic design arising from the contrapuntal interaction between melodic voices.
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Sofia Gubaidulina's believes that this abstract theory is the foundation of her personal musical expression.
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Sofia Gubaidulina experimented with other like series, including the Lucas Series which begins by adding 2 instead of 1 to the initial value; the only thing setting it apart from Fibonacci.
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On 4 October 2013, Sofia Gubaidulina became the recipient of the Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement for the Music section of the Venice Biennale.
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Sofia Gubaidulina's has won the BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award in the contemporary music category.
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On 27 February 2017, Sofia Gubaidulina was awarded an honorary doctor of music degree by the New England Conservatory, in Boston.
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Sofia Gubaidulina's was celebrated in a week of chamber and orchestral music.
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Sofia Gubaidulina considers the following four works the most important in this genre:.
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