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Alexander Kuzmich Vustin, composer
Noteworthy, Profiles, Russia

Alexander Kuzmich Vustin, composer

Alexander Kuzmich Vustin a Russian composer died in Moscow on 19 April 2020 from pneumonia, or COVID-19. His works, including the opera The Devil in Love, were played and recorded internationally. Vustin studied composition first with Grigory Frid at a regional music college, and later with Vladimir Ferè at the Moscow Conservatory, graduating in 1969. Between 1969 and 1974, Vustin worked as a music editor at USSR Radio. From 1974 he worked as an editor at the Kompozitor publishing house. Vustin composed from 1963, but regarded only works written since 1972 as valid. His musical language is distinctive by the remarkable organization of its musical texture. Vustin uses the twelve-tone technique, but in his own original way. His first notable compositions were written in the mid...
Alexander Thynn, aristocratic landowner
High Profilers, Profiles, United Kingdom

Alexander Thynn, aristocratic landowner

Alexander George Thynn ‑ 7th Marquess of Bath-styled Viscount Weymouth between 1946 and 1992, and a British aristocratic landowner, who sat in the House of Lords from 1992 until 1999, and a self- acclaimed artist and author ‑ died on 4 April, 2020 at the age of 87 due to COVID-19. Ranked 359th in the Sunday Times Rich List 2009 with an estimated wealth of £157 million, Lord Bath was in the media spotlight for his hippy fashion-sense and for developing  Longleat as an animal sanctuary and tourist attraction. Thynn was born in London, the son of Henry Thynne, 6th Marquess of Bath and Daphne Fielding, and grew up at his family seat, Longleat, a grand Elizabethan house set in Wiltshire parkland landscaped in the 18th century by Capability Brown. After attending Ludgrove ...