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Biography
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.
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Awards & recognition
- BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award · 2016
- Order "Duslyk" · 2016
- Bach Prize of the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg · 2007
- Goethe Medal · 2001
- Léonie Sonning Music Prize · 1999
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- Praemium Imperiale · 1998
- State Prize of the Russian Federation · 1992
- Honored art worker of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic · 1990
- Alexander Men Prize
- honorary citizen of Kazan
- Honored art worker of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic
- Knight Commander's Cross of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany
- Order — Merit in Culture and Art
- Order of Friendship
- Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany
- Pour le Mérite
- Pour le Mérite — Sciences and Arts order
