Composer Kaija Saariaho, of Finland, arrives for the Polar Music Prize ceremony, where she was named Polar Music Prize laureate Composer for 2013, at the Stockholm concert hall in Stockholm on Aug. 27, 2013. Saariaho, who wrote acclaimed works that made her the among the most prominent composers of the 21st century, died Friday, June 2, 2023, at her apartment in Paris, her family said in a statement posted on her Facebook page. She was 70. Saariaho had been diagnosed in February 2021 with glioblastoma, an aggressive and incurable brain tumor. (Christine Olsson/TT News Agency via AP, File)
