Finnish composer Kaija Saariaho died Friday in Paris on the age of 70, her household and writer mentioned in separate statements.
Her household mentioned she had died in her mattress at her Paris dwelling, having lived within the French capital for 4 many years.
“Kaija fought against illness with all her might and with grace,” mentioned her writer Chester Music.
Saariaho — a uncommon case of a feminine composer breaking by means of the glass ceiling and a figurehead for a technology of Finnish artists — received France’s Victoires de la Musique Classique accolade for her opera Innocence final yr.
The multilingual work, seven years within the making, had help from two of her compatriots — playwright Sofi Oksanen, who wrote the libretto, and Susanna Malkki who led the orchestra.
Saariaho had additionally gained renown together with her 2002 work “L’Amour de loin” (“Love from afar”) with a libretto written by Amin Maalouf, which later was reprised by the New York Met.
Although she earned normal renown as early because the Eighties, it wasn’t till the daybreak of the twenty first century when Saariaho broke by means of to wider in style consciousness on this planet of latest music and opera.
Born Kaija Anneli Laakkonen on October 14, 1952 in Helsinki, she grew up in a household with no hyperlinks to music however as a toddler discovered to play piano and violin.
She went on to check composition at Helsinki’s Sibelius Academy and undertook additional examine in Germany.
She then transferred to France’s IRCAM institute of music from 1982, and two years later married French composer Jean-Baptiste Barriere.
In March of this yr Finnish President Sauli Niinisto conferred on Saariaho the honorary title of Academician of Arts — an accolade beforehand solely granted to a handful of artists.
Source: www.anews.com.tr
