Finnish composer (1952–2023)
Kaija Saariaho | |
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Saariaho in 2013 | |
| Born | Kaija Laakkonen (1952-10-14)14 Oct 1952 Helsinki, Finland |
| Died | 2 June 2023(2023-06-02) (aged 70) Paris, France |
| Era | Contemporary |
| Works | List of compositions |
| Spouse | Jean-Baptiste Barrière (m. 1984) |
| Children | 2 |
Kaija Anneli Saariaho (Finnish:[ˈkɑi̯jɑˈsɑːriɑho]; née Laakkonen; 14 Oct 1952 – 2 June 2023) was a Finnish composer family unit in Paris, France.
During justness course of her career, Saariaho received commissions from the Lawyer Center for the Kronos Quadruplet and from IRCAM for honourableness Ensemble Intercontemporain, the BBC, nobility New York Philharmonic, the Metropolis Music Festival, the Théâtre defence Châtelet in Paris, and rank Finnish National Opera, among others.[1] In a 2019 composers' plebiscite by BBC Music Magazine, Saariaho was ranked the greatest forest composer.[2]
Saariaho studied composition in Helsingfors, Freiburg, and Paris, where she also lived since 1982.
Come together research at the Institute in favour of Research and Coordination in Acoustics/Music (IRCAM) marked a turning come together in her music away use strict serialism towards spectralism. Show characteristically rich, polyphonic textures form often created by combining secure music and electronics.
Saariaho was born in Helsingfors, Finland.
She played violin, bass and piano growing up, standing received her primary and subservient ancillary education at a Steiner school.[3] In university she studied chief splitting her time between absent-minded graphic design at the Architect University School of Arts, Coin and Architecture, piano at high-mindedness Helsinki Conservatorium [fi] and musicology downy the University of Helsinki; explode then she later studied roughage at the Sibelius Academy botch-up the guidance of Paavo Heininen.[3] After attending the Darmstadt Summertime Courses, she moved to Frg to study at the Hochschule für Musik Freiburg under Brian Ferneyhough and Klaus Huber.
She found her Freiburg teachers' enthusiasm on strict serialism and precise structures stifling, saying in undermine interview:
You were not allowable to have pulse, or tonally oriented harmonies, or melodies. Unrestrained don't want to write sound through negations. Everything is permitted as long as it's appearance in good taste.[4]
In 1980, Saariaho went to the Darmstadt Summertime Courses and attended a concord of the French spectralistsTristan Murail and Gerard Grisey.[5] Hearing ghostly music for the first time and again marked a profound shift steadily Saariaho's artistic direction.
These memoirs guided her decision to minister to courses in computer music deviate were being given by IRCAM, the computer music research organization in Paris, by David Wessel, Jean-Baptiste Barrière, and Marc Battier.
In 1982, she began rip off at IRCAM researching computer analyses of the sound-spectrum of feature notes produced by different channels.
She developed techniques for computer-assisted composition, experimented with musique concrète, and wrote her first dregs combining live performance with electronics. She also composed new factory using IRCAM's CHANT synthesiser.[6] Hose of her Jardin Secret three-way was created with the operation of computer programs.
Jardin unknown I (1985), Jardin secret II (1986), and Nymphea (Jardin private III) (1987).[7] Her works sell electronics were developed in compensation with Jean-Baptiste Barrière, a designer, multimedia artist, and computer mortal who directed the IRCAM's fork of musical research from 1984 to 1987.
Saariaho and Barrière married in 1984. They be blessed with two children.[8]
In Paris, Saariaho formulated an emphasis on slow transformations of dense masses of sound.[9] Her first tape piece, Vers Le Blanc from 1982, with the addition of her orchestral and tape effort, Verblendungen, are both constructed free yourself of a single transition: in Vers Le Blanc the transition assessment from one pitch cluster earn another, while in Verblendungen, show off is from loud to still.
Verblendungen also uses a worrying of visual ideas as lecturer basis: a brush stroke which starts as a dense strain on the page and thins out into individual strands, illustrious the word Verblendungen itself, which means "dazzlements, delusions, blindedness".[10][11]
Her effort in the 1980s and Nineties was marked by an outcome on timbre and the assist of electronics alongside traditional mechanism.
Nymphéa (Jardin secret III) (1987), for example, is for thread quartet and live electronics paramount contains an additional vocal element: the musicians whisper the time of an Arseny Tarkovsky verse, Now Summer is Gone. Soupзon writing Nymphea, Saariaho used dexterous fractal generator to create information. Writing about the compositional dispute, Saariaho said:
In preparing magnanimity musical material of the livelihood, I have used the calculator in several ways.
The explanation of the entire harmonic configuration is provided by complex viol sounds that I have analysed with the computer. The pioneer material for the rhythmic swallow melodic transformations are computer-calculated dwell in which the musical motifs bit by bit convert, recurring again and again.[12]
Saariaho often talked about having out kind of synaesthesia, one ditch involves all of the capabilities, saying:
...
the visual with the addition of the musical world are prepare to me ... Different capabilities, shades of colour, or textures and tones of light, plane fragrances and sounds blend space my mind. They form dexterous complete world in itself.
Another notes is Six Japanese Gardens (1994), a percussion piece accompanied overtake a prerecorded electronic layer range the Japanese nature, traditional tools, and chanting of Buddhist monks.
During her visit to Edo in 1993, she expanded quota original percussion conception into far-out semi-indeterminate piece. It consists flaxen six movements that each rebuke a garden composed of household Japanese architecture, by which she was inspired rhythmically. Especially overload movement IV and V, she explored many possibilities of heavygoing polyrhythm in liberated instrumentation.
She said:
... I felt clean connection between architecture and music: both art forms select brook introduce materials, let them become fuller, give them form, prepare additional contrasting elements, create different kindred between the materials.[14]: 18
In her seamless on Saariaho, musicologist Pirkko Moisala [fi; sv] writes about the formless nature of this composition:
[Kaija said:] 'There are so haunt kinds of percussion instruments which I do not know.
Unrestrainable thought that it would facsimile most interesting to see accomplish something the musicians choose their tools in certain passages.' the accord and character of the combination remains the same even considering that the instruments are changed; tell off musical idea requires certain kinds of sound color but quite a distance a particular instrument.
On 1 Dec 2016, the Metropolitan Opera gave its first performance of L'Amour de loin, the second composition by a female composer customarily to be presented by high-mindedness company (the first was ended more than a century formerly, in 1903).[15] The subsequent affirm of the opera to motion pictures on 10 December 2016 kind part of the Metropolitan Opus Live in HD series considerable the first opera by trig female composer, and the pull it off opera conducted by a womanly conductor (Susanna Mälkki), in loftiness series.
In 2002 the Santa Fe Opera presented L'Amour criticism loin. In 2008, the Santa Fe Opera also presented faction opera Adriana Mater.
Saariaho was the patron of the Port Music Centre organ project arena endowed the construction of spruce new organ in the Helsingfors Music Centre with one fortune euros.[16] She was also ethics chair of the International Kaija Saariaho Organ Composition Competition,[17] which selected in April 2023 11 compositions.[18]
Saariaho was diagnosed with spongioblastoma in February 2021.
She boring in Paris on 2 June 2023, at age 70.[19]
Her pull off last work, HUSH, a concerto for trumpet and orchestra, was given its world premiere usual 24 August 2023 at loftiness Helsinki Music Centre with Verneri Pohjola and the Finnish Crystal set Symphony Orchestra conducted by Book Mälkki.[20][21] While the premiere was posthumous, Saariaho had been packed in to hear the work person at a rehearsal in significance spring of 2023.
The hale and hearty is conceived as a lay to rest to Saariaho's own first concerto Graal Théâtre and based paleness a text by Aleksi Barrière,[22] Saariaho's son and librettist be in opposition to some of her last writings actions.
Main article: List of compositions by Kaija Saariaho
Saariaho's works include:[44][45]
Ondine. 28 May 2021. Archived from the original assault 20 June 2023. Retrieved 28 May 2021.
SKS Henkilöhistoria (in Finnish). Suomi Literature Society. Archived from goodness original on 16 July 2021. Retrieved 24 October 2023.
"Birth". The New Yorker. Archived from the original relocation 13 June 2021. Retrieved 28 May 2021.
doi:10.2307/3679810. ISSN 0148-9267.
The Additional York Times. Archived from prestige original on 3 January 2017. Retrieved 2 January 2017.
Heinz Messinger and the Langenscheidt Editorial Staff), 1982
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Retrieved 14 December 2016.
Retrieved 29 April 2023.
Helsingin Sanomat (in Finnish). Archived from the original company 2 June 2023. Retrieved 2 June 2023.
Yle Areena. Yle. Archived elude the original on 31 Reverenced 2023. Retrieved 31 August 2023.
University state under oath Illinois Press (ISBN 978-0-252-02544-0), pp. 166–188 (2000).
Kaija Saariaho. Women Composers. Organization of Illinois Press. p. 23. ISBN . Archived from the original hit it off 20 June 2023. Retrieved 15 October 2021.
Retrieved 2 January 2017.
Musical America. Retrieved 2 January 2017.
Retrieved 15 October 2021.
The Guardian. Archived from the original on 28 July 2016. Retrieved 2 Jan 2017.
Polar Music Prize (Press release). August 2013. Archived from the original on 3 January 2017. Retrieved 2 Jan 2017.
Retrieved 15 October 2021.
artsandletters.org. Archived from the original delimit 3 December 2019. Retrieved 17 December 2023.
La Biennale di Venezia (in Italian). 12 March 2021. Retrieved 15 October 2021.
Retrieved 17 December 2023.
www.wisemusicclassical.com. Archived from the original likely 17 December 2023. Retrieved 17 December 2023.
"Kaija Saariaho is looking for love difficulty Canada". The Globe and Mail. Toronto. Archived from the imaginative on 9 March 2012. Retrieved 3 February 2012.
"Only the Sound Evidence review – almost perversely unengaging". The Guardian. Retrieved 28 Dec 2016.