Covid kills Moscow composer, 76
mainFriends have reported the death of Alexander Vustin, a composer much performed by Gidon Kremer and Vladimir Jurovsky.
Vustin was a modernist who frequently composed in a serial style that felt somehow ironic and contrmporary. He wrote many works for orchestra nad chorus, none of them designated as symphonies or concertos.
He was his own man.
Jurovsky said: ‘We only knew each other for about five years, but I seem to have known him all my life. He was a man of unique spiritual qualities and a composer of a unique gift.’
There are reports that Vustin’s son Yuri is seriously ill with Covid-19.
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