British composer and conductor Oliver Knussen died Sunday at age 66, and since then, the tributes from those who knew and worked with him have flooded the British media. Reading their words, you might ...

Oliver Knussen, an influential British composer and conductor who gained renown as a teenage prodigy, adapted the Maurice Sendak picture book “Where the Wild Things Are” into a hit opera and became an ...

Oliver Knussen, composer, conductor, teacher, and director of the Tanglewood Festival of Contemporary Music from 1986-1993, died at his home in Snape, England, on July 8 at age 66. Knussen, who first ...

The Kennedy Center has been awash in CrossCurrents, a remarkable week of contemporary music created by composer Oliver Knussen and pianist Joseph Kalichstein. The festival wraps up Sunday. I wish I ...

Composer and conductor Oliver Knussen rose to fame at 15 when he conducted the London Symphony Orchestra for the first time after the principle conductor fell ill. This is an excerpt from "Symphony No ...

When the Cleveland Orchestra announced last week that this month's world premiere of "Cleveland Pictures" had been called off, no one could have been truly surprised. After all, Oliver Knussen, the ...

Composer and conductor Oliver Knussen, one of Britain's most influential contemporary classical figures, died Sunday, July 8, at the age of 66. His passing was announced by his publisher, Faber Music, ...

The Morgan Library & Museum explores a dense, underappreciated period in the artist’s career in an exhibition of sketches, dioramas and more. By Zachary Woolfe Quotes from notable actors, musicians, ...

The opera “Where the Wild Things Are,” which became one of composer Oliver Knussen’s most beloved works, had its origin when he was in The Bookstore in Lenox and picked up Maurice Sendak’s famous book ...

British composer Oliver Knussen — who leapt to fame at 15 conducting the London Symphony Orchestra in his First Symphony, created a wild rumpus of an opera out of Maurice Sendak’s “Where the Wild ...