Oliver Knussen: 'It never occurred to me that not everybody thought music was the most important thing in life'

As the composer and conductor celebrates his 60th birthday year, he talks to Fiona MaddocksRead Tom Service's guide to Knussen's musicDid you always find music a living entity – in the sense that you were always a composer, never content with performing only what already existed?Yes, I've done a lot of thinking about this. Although there wasn't actual parental pressure, I was immersed in music from the beginning and it never occurred to me that not everybody thought it was the most important t...

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