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    Stuart Oliver Knussen CBE (12 June 1952 – 8 July 2018) was a British composer of contemporary classical music and conductor. Among the most influential...
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  • "grotesques". When working on the 1983 opera adaptation of the book with Oliver Knussen, Sendak gave the monsters the names of his relatives: Tzippy, Moishe...
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  • Asko Ensemble and the Ensemble Modern, often under the direction of Oliver Knussen, who was, until his death in 2018, a regular collaborator and advocate...
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  • Where the Wild Things Are (opera) (category Operas by Oliver Knussen)
    nine scenes, by Oliver Knussen to a libretto by Maurice Sendak, based on Sendak's own 1963 children's book of the same title. Knussen composed the music...
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  • In 2012, the Festival's Artist in Residence was composer-conductor Oliver Knussen, a former artistic director of the Festival, and featured works by Helmut...
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    Danish footballer Oliver Knight (born 1969), British singer-songwriter Oliver Knight (cyclist) (born 2001), British cyclist Oliver Knussen (1952–2018), English...
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  • Silence, 5. Knussen, Oliver, Liner notes to Takemitsu: Quotation of Dream, performed by Paul Crossley/Peter Serkin/London Sinfonietta/Oliver Knussen, Deutsche...
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    Anderson [pupils] Simon Bainbridge [pupils] Gary Carpenter David Fanshawe Oliver Knussen [pupils] Jonathan Lloyd Ian McQueen Carlos Miranda Barrington Pheloung...
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  • since 2000. Composers have also written concertos in the 21st century. Oliver Knussen's Violin Concerto, Op. 30, written for Pinchas Zukerman, premièred in...
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  • championing new compositions,[citation needed] including works by John Adams, Oliver Knussen, Thomas Adès and Luca Francesconi. In 2008–09 she performed the world...
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