Galina Ustvolskaya (born June 17, 1919) is a Russian composer of classical music. June 17 is the 168th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (169th in leap years), with 197 days remaining. ... 1919 was a common year starting on Wednesday (see link for calendar). ...

Born in St Petersburg, she was a pupil of Dmitri Shostakovich from 1939 to 1947 but showed few of his stylistic influences. As a modernist, she had few public performances. Until the fall of the USSR, only the violin sonata of 1952 was played with any frequency. On an exchange visit, Roy Harris of the American delegation found it "kind of ugly". Saint Petersburg (Russian: Санкт-Петербу́рг, English transliteration: Sankt-Peterburg), colloquially known as Питер (transliterated Piter), formerly known as Leningrad (Ленингра́д, 1924–1991) and Petrograd (Петрогра́д, 1914–1924), is a city located in Northwestern Russia on the delta of the river Neva at the east end of the Gulf of Finland... Dmitri Dmitrievich Shostakovich   listen? (Russian: ) (September 25, 1906 – August 9, 1975) was a Russian composer of the Soviet period. ... 1939 was a common year starting on Sunday (link will take you to calendar). ... 1947 was a common year starting on Wednesday (link will take you to calendar). ... Le Corbusiers Villa Savoye, 1929-30: The modern style is noted for its rigorous geometrical forms. ... A violin sonata is a musical composition for solo violin, often (but not always) accompanied by a piano or other keyboard instrument, or by figured bass in the Baroque. ... Roy Ellsworth Harris (February 12, 1898 – October 1, 1979) was an American classical composer who wrote much music on American subjects and is perhaps best known for his . ...

Given the secular priorities of life in the Soviet Union, it is surprising that four of her symphonies, but not the first (1955), have Christian subtitles.

• Symphony no 2 - "True and Eternal Bliss" (1979)
• Symphony no 3 - "Jesus Messiah, Save Us" (1983)
• Symphony no 4 - "Prayer"(1985/7) (6 minutes long)
• Symphony no 5 - "Amen" (1989/90)

She is also the author of "Compositions" (numbers 1 to 3).

Her "Sonata No. 6" has been recorded. It is dissonant and monotempic.

She could be classed as a new Russian mystic, along with Sofia Gubaidulina. She is a recluse. Sofia Asgatovna Gubaidulina, (Russian София Асгатовна Губайдулина, Tatar Sofia Äsğät qızı Ğöbäydullina) (born October 24, 1931) is a Russian-Tatar composer of deeply religious music. ...