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Velentin Silvestrov is a Ukrainian composer who was born in Kiev in 1937. Evidently, he never quite felt at home either with the Socialist Realist or the International Modernist schools – avoiding the former and repudiating the latter – but his aesthetic ideas and values have found a welcome home within the Postmodernist fold. (For a biography, see here.)