Knussen
Britishnoun
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Anderson completed “Litanies” in 2019, several months after the fire and a year after the death of his close friend Oliver Knussen, the influential composer and conductor.
From New York Times • Dec. 5, 2022
In the 1980s and 1990s, Knussen was regularly invited to conduct here by the orchestra’s executive director, Ernest Fleischmann.
From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 11, 2019
When the composer and conductor Oliver Knussen, a gentle and towering giant of British music, suddenly died of a massive heart attack at 66 last year, he was beloved.
From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 11, 2019
Where Knussen piled on, György Kurtág’s “Tre pezzi,” from 1979, pared away: lean whispers in the outer pieces, hard, uncompromising thumps in the center.
From Washington Post • Nov. 24, 2019
Survivors include his daughter, contralto Sonya Alexandra Knussen of Baltimore; a brother; and a sister.
From Washington Post • Jul. 12, 2018
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