Kaija Saariaho

E590933

Kaija Saariaho was a Finnish composer renowned for her innovative use of timbre, electronics, and spectral techniques, and for her influential operas and orchestral works in contemporary classical music.

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Label Occurrences
Kaija Saariaho canonical 4

Statements (52)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Finnish composer
composer
human
awardReceived Ernst von Siemens Music Prize NERFINISHED
Grawemeyer Award for Music Composition NERFINISHED
Grawemeyer Award for Music Composition 2003 NERFINISHED
Lionel Robbins Memorial Lecture in Music NERFINISHED
Nordic Council Music Prize NERFINISHED
countryOfCitizenship Finland
dateOfBirth 1952-10-14
dateOfDeath 2023-06-02
educatedAt Freiburg University of Music NERFINISHED
IRCAM NERFINISHED
Sibelius Academy NERFINISHED
employer IRCAM NERFINISHED
familyName Saariaho NERFINISHED
fieldOfWork composition
fullName Kaija Anneli Saariaho NERFINISHED
genre contemporary classical music
spectral music
givenName Kaija NERFINISHED
hasInfluenced 21st-century orchestral music
contemporary opera
influencedBy electroacoustic music
spectral composers
languageOfWork English
Finnish
French
movement post-serialism
spectralism
notableFor innovative use of timbre
operas
orchestral works
use of electronics in composition
use of spectral techniques
notableWork Adriana Mater NERFINISHED
D'om le vrai sens NERFINISHED
Du cristal NERFINISHED
Emilie NERFINISHED
Graal théâtre NERFINISHED
Innocence NERFINISHED
L'Amour de loin NERFINISHED
Laterna magica NERFINISHED
Lichtbogen NERFINISHED
Notes on Light NERFINISHED
Only the Sound Remains NERFINISHED
Orion NERFINISHED
Verblendungen NERFINISHED
…à la fumée NERFINISHED
placeOfBirth Helsinki, Finland NERFINISHED
placeOfDeath Paris
surface form: Paris, France
residence Paris
surface form: Paris, France

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Subject: Kaija Saariaho
Description of subject: Kaija Saariaho was a Finnish composer renowned for her innovative use of timbre, electronics, and spectral techniques, and for her influential operas and orchestral works in contemporary classical music.

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