Galina Ustvolskaya

Russia, 1946–2006

Soviet composer and a pupil of Shostakovich, known for an austere and deliberately limited idiom. Her six piano sonatas and symphonies use extreme dynamics and quasi-liturgical repetition, and stand apart from the mainstream of Soviet music.

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Who influenced Galina Ustvolskaya?

• Dmitri Shostakovich — Ustvolskaya was Shostakovich's pupil (1939–48); he held her in the highest regard, consulted her and even quoted her Clarinet Trio — though her music broke away into something utterly her own.