Oliver Knussen
Oliver Knussen | |
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Knussen in 2008 conducting the Orchestra Mozart | |
| Born | Stuart Oliver Knussen 12 June 1952 Glasgow, Scotland |
| Died | 8 July 2018 (aged 66) Snape, Suffolk, England |
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| Works | List 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"