Person · Open Library
- Born
- 1952-10-14
- Died
- 2023-06-02
- Works
- 20
Top works
- NoaNoa for Flute and Electronics
- Prisma
- Sarriaho
- Le passage des frontières
- al-Umm Adrīyānā
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Film & TV
Sound · Helsinki, Finland
Kaija Saariaho is a Finnish composer of contemporary classical music and opera.
Known for
- The Echoes of the Universe – The Music of Kaija Saariaho — Self2023
- Kaija im Porträt - Konzert und Dokumentation — Self2022
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Music · MusicBrainz
- Type
- Person
- Country
- FR
- Active from
- 1952-10-14
- Active to
Article
Kaija Anneli Saariaho ( Finnish: [ˈkɑi̯jɑ ˈsɑːriɑho]; née Laakkonen; 14 October 1952 – 2 June 2023) was a Finnish composer based in Paris, France. During the course of her career, Saariaho received commissions from the Lincoln Center for the Kronos Quartet and from IRCAM for the Ensemble Intercontemporain, the BBC, the New York Philharmonic, the Salzburg Music Festival, the Théâtre du Châtelet in Paris, and the Finnish National Opera, among others. In a 2019 composers' poll by BBC Music Magazine, Saariaho was ranked the greatest living composer.
Saariaho studied composition in Helsinki, Freiburg, and Paris, where she also lived since 1982. Her research at the Institute for Research and Coordination in Acoustics/Music (IRCAM) marked a turning point in her music away from strict serialism towards spectralism. Her characteristically rich, polyphonic textures are often created by combining live music and electronics.
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