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...