The composer Sofia Gubaidulina, born on 24 October 1931 in Chistopol, a small town on the Volga in the Tartar ASSR, decidedly explored the tensions between Western and Eastern music. Her innovative use of microtonality and chromaticism, along with contrasting

Musical Toys is a set of 14 short pieces by the Tatar composer Sofia Gubaidulina, which she herself described as ‘pictorial miniatures’ that she would have liked to play as a child. Though this set is subtitled ‘A Collection of

An Uncompromising Vision Sofia Asgatovna Gubaidulina, born on 24 October 1931 in Tschistopol, a small town on the Volga in the Tartar Republic of the USSR, has never been in doubt about her personal and musical identity and convictions. “I