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Knussen, Oliver

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Personal name headingKnussen, Oliver
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Variant(s)Knussen, Stuart Oliver
Associated countryGreat Britain
Birth date1952-06-12
Death date2018-07-08
Place of birthGlasgow (Scotland)
Place of deathSnape (England)
Profession or occupationComposers Conductors (Music)
Found inHis Symphony no. 1, 1968.
His Symphony no. 3 [SR] c1981: container (Oliver Knussen; b. 1952)
Int. ww in mus., 16th ed. (Knussen, (Stuart) Oliver; b. June 12, 1952, Glasgow, Scotland; composer, conductor)
Wikipedia, November 2, 2015 (Oliver Knussen; born June 12, 1952, Glasgow, Scotland; British composer and conductor; lives in Snape, Suffolk)
New York times WWW site, viewed July 10, 2018 (in obituary published July 9: Oliver Knussen; b. Stuart Oliver Knussen, June 12, 1952, Glasgow; d. Sunday [July 8, 2018], Snape, England, aged 66; composer who leapt to fame at 15 conducting the London Symphony Orchestra in his First Symphony, created a wild rumpus of an opera out of Maurice Sendak's Where the wild things are, and championed contemporary composers as a conductor and mentor)
678 field information, July 10, 2018 (composer-conductor)