Born in 1943. “The Petersburgian, who is popular and highly estimated more in the West, than in his Motherland…” (Iosif Raiskin, 2000). Knaifel is the author of more than 70 compositions in all the spheres of music. The premières of his compositions took place at the greatest music festivals in Paris, London, Amsterdam, New York, Zurich, Salzburg, Berlin, Frankfurt, Köln, Maastricht, Ferrara. In 1992 the festival of Knaifel`s music was held in Frankfurt-am-Main.
Alexander Knaifel was the first among the Russian musicians to be awarded the International DAAD prize. His recent large-scaled work is the opera “Alice in Wonderland” to Lewis Carroll, commissioned by Der Nederlandse Opera. The première took place in Amsterdam in 2001.
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