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Ivan Tcherepnin

Ivan Tcherepnin was an experimental, then later modernist/postmodernist, composer. He was born into a highly musical family, his father and grandfather, Alexander and Nikolai, being distinguished Russian composers, and his mother Ming a well-known pianist...

's orchestral work, Le va et le vient ("the coming and the going"), refers to the birth of his son, Stefan Tcherepnin (born September 29, 1977), which was immediately followed by the death of his father, Alexander Tcherepnin

Alexander Tcherepnin

Alexander Nikolayevich Tcherepnin was a Russian-born composer and pianist. His father, Nikolai Tcherepnin and his son, Ivan Tcherepnin were also composers, as are two of his grandsons, Sergei and Stefan. His son Serge was involved in the roots of electronic music and instruments...

 (died September 29, 1977). It was premiered at the Lucerne Music Festival on August 8, 1978, with the composer conducting.