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Death of a Russian composer

Death of a Russian composer

The unsettlingly slow avantgardist Alexander Knaifel died today suddenly at the age of 80.

He made his living writing for Soviet movies and his reputation with two Eng-lit operas, operas The Ghost of Canterville and Alice in Wonderland. He was almost a minimalist, but too edgy to be classified.

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