Tag: Galina Ustvolskaya

Portents of dissent and change pervade the chamber music of the Soviet Union’s later years. Many of its composers – including Arvo Pärt, Sofia Gubaidulina, Alfred Schnittke, Viktor Galina Ustvolskaya – were writing music that began to break from the “Socialist realism” mandated by the Ministry of Culture, and laid the groundwork for new directions…