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Sofia Gubaidulina: Tatar Republic
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Sofia Gubaidulina was born in Chistopol in the Tatar Republic of the Soviet Union in 1931. After instruction in piano and composition at the Kazan Conservatory, she studied composition with Nikolai Peiko at the Moscow Conservatory, pursuing graduate studies there under Vissarion Shebalin. Until 1992, she lived in Moscow. Since then, she has made her primary residence in Germany, outside Hamburg.
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Sofia Gubaidulina was born in Chistopol, Tatar Republic, Soviet Union on October 24, 1931. She completed The Rider on the White Horse in August 2002. It was commissioned by the Eduard van Beinum Foundation of Hilversum, Netherlands, for a concert celebrating the fiftieth birthday of conductor Valery Gergiev. He conducted the Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra in the premiere on September 15, 2002. It runs approximately 15 minutes in performance and is scored for 3 flutes, 2 piccolos, oboe, 2 clarinets, E-flat clarinet, bass clarinet, bassoon, 3 horns, 3 Wagner tubas, 2 trumpets, piccolo trumpet, bass trumpet, 3 trombones, tuba, timpani, percussion, harpsichord, organ, piano, and orchestral strings.
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Sofia Gubaidulina, who celebrated her 75th birthday six weeks ago, was born in Chistopol, on the Kama River near Kazan, to a Tatar father—her grandfather was a mullah—and a Russian mother. She studied piano and composition at the Kazan Conservatory before enrolling at the Moscow Conservatory in 1954, where she studied composition first with Nikolai Peiko and, as a graduate student, with Vissarion Shebalin.
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Gubaidulina was born in Chistopol, in the Tatar ASSR. In her youth she would spend much time praying in the fields near her home that she might one day become a composer. She studied composition and piano at the Kazan Conservatory, graduating in 1954. In Moscow she undertook further studies at the Conservatory with Nikolay Peyko until 1959, and then with Shebalin until 1963.
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