Death of a Russian composer

Death of a Russian composer

RIP

norman lebrecht

June 27, 2024

The unsettlingly slow avantgardist Alexander Knaifel died today suddenly at the age of 80.

He made his living writing for Soviet movies and his reputation with two Eng-lit operas, operas The Ghost of Canterville and Alice in Wonderland. He was almost a minimalist, but too edgy to be classified.

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