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Galina Ustvolskaya

1919 - 2006

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Galina Ivanovna Ustvolskaya (Russian: Галина Ивановна Уствольская ) (17 June 1919 – 22 December 2006), was a Russian composer of classical music. Known as 'the lady with the hammer', her music has been described as demanding "everything from the performer", uncompromising in her trademark textured homophonic blocks of sound. Ustvolskaya created her own unique style, characterized by unusual combinations of instruments that created highly specific tone clusters and textures and her large dynamic ranges. A highly private person, she chose to live her life largely outside of the public eye, rarely conducting interviews as she found it unpleasant to talk about her own music. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Galina Ustvolskaya is the 759th most popular composer (up from 879th in 2019), the 981st most popular biography from Russia (up from 1,236th in 2019) and the 33rd most popular Russian Composer.

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Among COMPOSERS

Among composers, Galina Ustvolskaya ranks 759 out of 1,451. Before her are Josef Tal, Matthias Weckmann, Isaak Dunayevsky, Franz Lachner, Nicolas Isouard, and Dave Grusin. After her are Edison Denisov, Charles Tournemire, Goffredo Petrassi, Joseph Weigl, Giovanni Giacomo Gastoldi, and Luigi Denza.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1919, Galina Ustvolskaya ranks 139. Before her are Sophia de Mello Breyner Andresen, Maurice Hilleman, Anatoly Dobrynin, Adamantios Androutsopoulos, Åke Seyffarth, and Félix Gaillard. After her are Tamara Toumanova, Beate Uhse-Rotermund, James H. Wilkinson, Briek Schotte, Paul de Man, and Lisa Della Casa. Among people deceased in 2006, Galina Ustvolskaya ranks 150. Before her are Wilson Pickett, Allan Kaprow, Shin Sang-ok, Maynard Ferguson, Richard Bright, and Ferenc Szusza. After her are Carlo Acutis, Paul Halmos, Alexander Zinoviev, Maureen Stapleton, Mickey Spillane, and Anthony Franciosa.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Galina Ustvolskaya ranks 981 out of 3,761. Before her are Boris Mikhailov (1944), Leonid Kuravlyov (1936), Angelina Beloff (1879), Elena Obraztsova (1939), Sergey Ivanovich Vavilov (1891), and Andrey Nikolayevich Tikhonov (1906). After her are Edison Denisov (1929), Tamara Toumanova (1919), Patriarch Job of Moscow (1525), Pavel Durov (1984), Prince Constantine Constantinovich of Russia (1891), and Philipp Johann Ferdinand Schur (1799).

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Among COMPOSERS In Russia

Among composers born in Russia, Galina Ustvolskaya ranks 33. Before her are Tikhon Khrennikov (1913), Aleksandra Pakhmutova (1929), Alexander Gretchaninov (1864), Georgy Sviridov (1915), Sergei Lyapunov (1859), and Boris Asafyev (1884). After her are Edison Denisov (1929), Alexander Tcherepnin (1899), Matvey Blanter (1903), Nikolai Tcherepnin (1873), Muslim Magomayev (1885), and Airat Ichmouratov (1973).

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