Alexander Vustin died this week of coronavirus. Vustin was a wonderful Russian composer who synthesized the music of socialist realism with atonality with postmodern eclecticism. Listen to this miraculous miniature: a perfect melding of Shostakovich, Schoenberg, and Schnittke. A tragic irony of this post is that this video comes from the youtube page of Dmitri Smirnov, a Russian immigrant composer to England who also died of coronavirus. We will probably also talk about him before too long.
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