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Sofia Gubaidulina, Soviet Union and Russian composer

Legendary Russian composer Gubaidulina dies in Germany

Legendary avant-garde composer Sofia Gubaidulina has died in Germany, where she spent more than 30 years of her life after the break-up of the Soviet Union. Gubaidulina, who was 93, was one of a group of composers blacklisted in the Soviet Union in 1979.

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Sofia Gubaidulina, Composer Who Provoked Soviet Censors, Dies at 93

Blacklisted at home but finding acclaim abroad, she sought to bridge East and West, the sacred and the secular, in vivid, colorful compositions.

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Sofia Gubaidulina, composer whose intensity was spurred by the tyranny of the Soviet regime

Sofia Gubaidulina, who has died aged 93, believed that it was Soviet repression which made her so powerful and distinctive a composer, though it was only after the fall of Communism that she became well known in the West;

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Sofia Gubaidulina, the composer who fused sound and spirituality, has died at age 93

One of the first modern women composers to reach international acclaim, Gubaidulina wrote bold music, inspired by Eastern and Western philosophies, and the joy of sound itself.

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A music producer found an old record. It opened up a world of Soviet-era disco

And this, by the 1980s, was pumping out around 200 million vinyl records just within the Soviet Union. (SOUNDBITE OF MUSIC) EISENBERG: With the death of Stalin, we see Nikita Khrushchev come to ...

A Composer Both Fully Modern and Sincerely Spiritual

Sofia Gubaidulina’s work, with its thorniness and religious themes, put her at odds with the Soviet government.

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Central Asian Soviet-era pop music anthology displays the region's vast diversity

MAYNES: By the early 1990s, the biggest club of them all - the Soviet Union - was set to shutter its doors. Upheaval had gripped Moscow, and it rippled across the USSR. (SOUNDBITE OF MUSIC ...

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