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Oliver Knussen CBE (born 12 June 1952) is a British composer and conductor. ==Biography== Oliver Knussen was born in Glasgow, Scotland. His father, Stuart Knussen, was principal double bass of the London Symphony Orchestra, and also participated in a number of premieres of Benjamin Britten's music.〔Reed, Philip & Mervyn Cooke. ''Letters from a Life: The Selected Letters of Benjamin Britten, 1913-1976: Vol. 5: 1958-1965''. Boydell Press, 2010: p. xxxviii〕 Oliver Knussen studied composition with John Lambert between 1963 and 1969, and also received encouragement from Britten. He spent several summers studying with Gunther Schuller at Tanglewood in Massachusetts and in Boston. He later became the head of contemporary music activities at Tanglewood, between 1986 and 1993. He was married to Sue Knussen, a US-born producer and director of music programmes for BBC television and for the UK's Channel 4 – for which she made ''Leaving Home'', an introduction to 20th-century music presented by Simon Rattle in a series of seven one-hour programmes, which won the 1996 BAFTA award for "Best Arts Series".〔( ''Sue Knussen'' – obituary, Variety, 16 April 2003 ).Accessed on 19 August 2007.〕 She ran the Los Angeles Philharmonic's education department in the late 1990s. Oliver and Sue Knussen had a daughter, Sonya, who is a mezzo-soprano. Sue Knussen died of a blood infection in London in 2003. The ''Sue Knussen Composers Fund'' (previously, the ''Sue Knussen Commissioning Fund'') "honours her memory and professional legacy...and...commissions works from emerging composers to be performed by contemporary music ensembles worldwide."〔(''Singsthings'', Sonya Knussen's website ).Accessed on 19 August 2007.〕 Knussen lives in Snape, Suffolk, Benjamin Britten's base during one of his most creative periods.〔( ''Benjamin Britten's long association...'' – John Waddell, snapevillage.org.uk ).Accessed on 19 August 2007.〕 Snape Maltings concert hall is the home of the Aldeburgh Festival. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Oliver Knussen」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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