Sofia Asgatovna Gubaidulina

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Sofia Asgatovna Gubaidulina ( Russian София Асгатовна Губайдулина , scientific transliteration Sofija Asgatovna Gubajdulina , Tatar Sofia Äsğät qızı Ğöbäydullina ; born  October 24, 1931 in Tschistopol , a Russian composer republic , Tatar Republic ) .

Sofia Gubaidulina in Sortavala , 1981

Life

Sofia Gubaidulina was born in the city of Chistopol in the Tatar Autonomous Republic to a Tatar-Russian family. Her father, Asgat Masgudowitsch Gubaidulin, was an engineering geodesist . The mother, Fedosiya Fedorovna Gubaidulina, b. Jelchowa, was a teacher. The grandfather, Masgud Gubaidulin, was a mullah. Gubaidulina herself professes the Russian Orthodox faith; she was baptized Russian Orthodox in March 1970. She was married three times in total.

In 1932 the family moved to Kazan . Gubaidulina studied composition and piano at the Kazan Conservatory and after graduating in 1954 continued her studies in Moscow until 1963. As a student, she was awarded a Stalin scholarship. During these studies her music was described as "neglected", but Dmitri Shostakovich encouraged her to continue on her "wrong track".

In the mid-1970s, Gubaidulina founded the Astreja ensemble together with the composers Viktor Suslin and Vyacheslav Artyomov , which improvised on instruments from Russian folk music. In the sixties and seventies her works were banned in the Soviet Union because her music did not correspond to the ideas of socialist realism.

Her success in the West was mainly supported by the star violinist Gidon Kremer (later also by Reinbert de Leeuw), who premiered her first violin concerto Offertorium in 1981. Since then, Sofia Gubaidulina, together with Alfred Schnittke and Edisson Denissow, has been one of the leading, world-renowned composers in Russia of the post-Shostakovich era.

In 2000 Gubaidulina received a composition commission for the project Passion 2000 (in memory of JS Bach ) from the International Bach Academy Stuttgart together with Tan Dun , Osvaldo Golijov and Wolfgang Rihm . Your contribution was a St. John Passion . In 2002 the composition Johannes-Easter followed . Both works form a diptych about the death and resurrection of Christ; Gubaidulina's most extensive work to date. The 2nd violin concerto In tempus praesens is dedicated to Anne-Sophie Mutter . In 2003, at the invitation of Walter Fink, she was the first woman to appear in the annual composer portrait of the Rheingau Music Festival .

Sofia Gubaidulina has lived in Germany since 1992 and lives in Appen ( Pinneberg district ). She is a member of the Akademie der Künste in Berlin , the Freie Akademie der Künste in Hamburg and the Royal Swedish Music Academy in Stockholm as well as an honorary member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters . In 1990 she was appointed a member of the Lenin Prize Awarding Committee . In 1999 she was accepted into the Order Pour le Mérite . Since 2001 she has been an honorary professor at the Kazan Conservatory, and since 2005 at the Beijing and Tianjin Conservatories.

In 2018 she was appointed to the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences , which awards the Oscars every year.

Works (selection)

  • Chaconne for piano (1963)
  • String Quartet No. 1 (1971)
  • Detto II for cello and thirteen instruments (1972)
  • Concerto for bassoon and low strings (1975)
  • Duo sonata 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 joys and sadnesses for flute, viola and harp (1980)
  • Offertory violin concerto, dedicated to Gidon Kremer , premiered on 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 violoncello, bayan and strings (1982)
  • Quasi hoquetus for viola, bassoon and piano (1984/85)
  • Et Exspecto . Sonata for bayan solo (1985)
  • Symphony Voices ... fall silent ... (1986)
  • Hommage à TS Eliot for octet and soprano (1987)
  • String Quartet No. 2 (1987)
  • String Quartet No. 3 (1987)
  • String Trio (1988)
  • Symphony Alleluja (1990)
  • Silenzio . Five pieces for bayan , violin and violoncello (1991)
  • Always snow now . Five pieces for speaker, chamber ensemble and chamber choir based on texts by Gennadi Aigi (1993)
  • String Quartet No. 4 (1993) (with sound from tape)
  • Music for flute, strings and percussion (1994)
  • From the visions of Hildegard von Bingen . For Contraalt Solo (1994)
  • Concerto for viola and orchestra (1997)
  • Der Sonnengesang for violoncello, choir, percussion and celesta (1997) (1998 world premiere with Mstislaw Rostropowitsch )
  • Two Paths - A Dedication to Mary and Martha (1999), for 2 violas and orchestra. Version for 2 cellos and orchestra by Johannes X. Schachtner (2014)
  • St. John Passion (2000 in Russian)
  • St. John's 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 waterphones (2003)
  • In tempus praesens 2nd violin concerto, dedicated to Anne-Sophie Mutter , premiered on August 30, 2007 in Lucerne
  • Glorious Percussion , concert for percussion ensemble and orchestra (world premiere 2008)
  • Triple Concerto for violin, violoncello, bayan and orchestra (world premiere in 2017 in Boston)

Discography

  • Works for double bass, piano and bayan , 2013, Wergo WER 6760 2 (grade 1)

Awards

literature

  • Michael Kurtz: Sofia Gubaidulina. A biography. Urachhaus , Stuttgart 2001, ISBN 3-8251-7226-0 .
  • Rainer Nonnenmann: musica contemplativa. A portrait sketch by Sofia Gubaidulina, in: MusikTexte 93, Cologne 2002, pp. 19–23.
  • Sofia Gubaidulina, in Soviet Music in the Light of Perestroika: Interpretations, Source Texts, Composers' Monographs. Edited by Hermann Danuser a. a. Laaber-Verlag 1990, pp. 345-347.
  • Boris Belge: Sounding Soviet Modernism. A music and social history of late socialism , Böhlau Verlag, Cologne / Weimar / Vienna 2018, ISBN 978-3-412-51066-4 .

Documentaries

  • One step towards my longing. The composer Sofia Gubaidulina. Documentary, Germany, 1996, 60 min., Script and director: Klaus Voswinckel, production: Klaus Voswinckel Filmproduktion, Bayerischer Rundfunk , SDR , film information from ARD .
  • Sophia. Biography of a Violin Concerto. Documentary with Sofia Gubaidulina and Anne-Sophie Mutter , Germany, 2011, 56 min., Written and directed by Jan Schmidt-Garre, production: Naxos Deutschland GmbH, distributor: ArtHaus Musik

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ viperson.ru
  2. ↑ biografija.ru
  3. ↑ a b yanko.lib.ru
  4. ↑ Academy invites 928 to Membersphip . In: oscars.org (accessed June 26, 2018).
  5. ^ The Musical Composition Prize 1987 | Fondation Prince Pierre In: fondationprincepierre.mc , accessed on August 27, 2018.
  6. ↑ a b Koussevitzky International Recording Award (KIRA) Winners In: musiciansclubofny.org , accessed on August 27, 2018.
  7. ^ Premio Abbiati ● 1990-1999 | In: criticimusicali.it , accessed on August 27, 2018.
  8. ↑ Previous winners In: braunschweig.de , accessed on August 27, 2018.
  9. ↑ 6th Roche Commission goes to Sofia Gubaidulina ( Memento from September 8, 2012 in the web archive archive.today ) In: Roche .com , August 27, 2010
  10. ^ ISCM Honorary Members
personal data
SURNAME Gubaidulina, Sofia Asgatovna
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Gubajdulina, Sofija Asgatovna
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Russian composer
DATE OF BIRTH October 24, 1931
PLACE OF BIRTH Chistopol , Tatarstan