Russian composer of Tatare origin, Sofia Goubaïdoulina, died Thursday, March 13, at her home in the vicinity of Hamburg, announced her publishers Boosey and Hawkes and Sikorski. She was 93 years old. Completely unknown to the west until the early 1980s, she embodied the revival of music in the Soviet Union within a Troika who associated her with Edison Denisov (1929-1996) and Arthur Schnittke (1934-1998). His holy Trinity to her brought together Jean-Sébastien Bach, Anton Webern and Dimitri Chostakovitch, who encouraged him to find his way.
Sofia Goubaïdoulina was born on October 24, 1931 in Tchistopol (Tatare Republic), a Russian mother, teacher, and a Tatare father, geodetic engineer. In 1932, the family moved to Kazan, still on the banks of the Volga. A granddaughter of a mullah and daughter of an intellectual subject to Stalinist pressure, Sofia Goubaïdoulina does not grow in serenity. Only an accordionist of the streets, whose wanderings she accompanies while dancing, introduces a little cheerfulness in her gloomy daily life.
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