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Stuart Oliver Knussen CBE (12 June 1952 – 8 July 2018) was a
British composer of
contemporary classical music and conductor.
Among the most influential...
- nine scenes, by
Oliver Knussen to a
libretto by
Maurice Sendak,
based on Sendak's own 1963 children's book of the same title.
Knussen composed the
music from...
- been
performed by many
notable conductors such as: Sir Mark Elder,
Oliver Knussen,
Daniel Harding, and Jac van Steen.
Charlotte Bray was born in
Oxford in...
- "grotesques". When
working on the 1983
opera adaptation of the book with
Oliver Knussen,
Sendak gave the
monsters the
names of his relatives: Tzippy, Moishe, Aaron...
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served as
music director from 1994 to 1998; he was
succeeded by
Oliver Knussen from 1998 to 2002.
Following 10
years as the ensemble's
Education Officer...
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Maxwell Davies and at
Guildhall School of
Music and
Drama with
Oliver Knussen. In 1986 Vir was a
composition fellow at Tanglewood. The
following year...
- of
Oliver Knussen's one act
fantasy opera Where the Wild
Things Are,
based on
Maurice Sendak's 1963 children's book of the same title.
Knussen composed...
-
orchestral texture", Paul
Griffiths wrote in The New York Times.
Oliver Knussen,
himself a well-known composer-conductor,
observed that "his rehearsals...
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commission new
works from Timo Andres,
Chick Corea,
Alexander Goehr,
Oliver Knussen,
Thomas Adès and Brad Mehldau, with
additional commissions scheduled for...
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Deutsche Grammophon include Hildur Guðnadóttir,
Sofia Gubaidulina,
Oliver Knussen, Mark-Anthony Turnage,
Mohammed Fairouz, Péter Eötvös,
Luigi ****, Sven...
