Oliver Knussen

Oliver Knussen
Knussen in 2008 conducting the Orchestra Mozart
Born
Stuart Oliver Knussen

(1952-06-12)12 June 1952
Glasgow, Scotland
Died8 July 2018(2018-07-08) (aged 66)
Occupations
  • Composer
  • conductor
WorksList of compositions

Stuart Oliver Knussen CBE (12 June 1952 – 8 July 2018) was a British composer of contemporary classical music and conductor. Among the most influential British composers of his generation, his relatively few compositions are "rooted in 20th-century modernism, [but] beholden to no school but his own"