Sofiya Gubaydulina was born on October 24, 1931 in Chistopol, Tatarskaya ASSR, Russian SFSR, USSR [now Chistopol, Tatarstan, Russia]. She was a composer, known for The Killing of a Sacred Deer (2017), Sturm an der Steilwand (1966) and Den angela (1968). She was married to Mark Liando, Nikolai Bokov and Pyotr Meshchaninov. She died on March 13, 2025 in Appen, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany.
