Kaija Saariaho, a Finnish composer who was brought up in the world of male-dominated high modernism but who broke away to forge an identity of her own, becoming the first woman to have more than one work of hers staged by the Metropolitan Opera, died on Friday at her home in Paris.She was 70.She had been diagnosed with brain cancer in 2021, said her publisher, Chester Music, which confirmed the death.
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