Александр Рабинович-Бараковский

Alexandre Rabinovitch-Barakovsky is a Russian-born composer, conductor and classical pianist who lives in Switzerland. He is one of the first composers of minimalism ; "La Belle Musique N.3" (1977) is the first work for orchestra in the minimalist field. He emigrated to Paris from Moscow in 1974, and now lives in Switzerland. He has collaborated with numerous musical artists, notably with the pianist Martha Argerich, with whom he has recorded works by Rachmaninoff and Brahms.