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A Schnittke Reader Alfred Schnittke

A Schnittke Reader By Alfred Schnittke

A Schnittke Reader by Alfred Schnittke

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The compositions of Alfred Schnittke (1934-1998) are known for their exquisite construction, their unlikely embrace of material from disparate sources, their predisposition for melancholia, and their tremendous beauty. This title presents his life, his works, other composers, and a range of topics in twentieth-century music.

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A Schnittke Reader by Alfred Schnittke

This compilation assembles previously published and unpublished essays by Schnittke and supplements them with an interview with cellist and scholar Alexander Ivashkin. The book is illustrated with musical examples, many of them in Schnittke's own hand. In A Schnittke Reader, the composer speaks of his life, his works, other composers, performers, and a broad range of topics in 20th-century music. The volume is rounded out with reflections by some of Schnittke's contemporaries.

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I have read all of Alfred's articles with enormous interest and enjoyment... [He] had such a profound insight into the music of other composers, and ... he found in it so many regular features that were hidden from others. --from the foreword by Mstislav Rostropovich This collection of writings by or about Alfred Schnittke, including many previously unpublished, is a major contribution to our understanding of the most important Russian composer of recent times.--Classical Music, 4 January 2003 This collection of writings by or about Alfred Schnittke, including many previously unpublished, is a major contribution to our understanding of the most important Russian composer of recent times.--Classical Music, 4 January 2003

About Alfred Schnittke

Alfred Schnittke was one of the great composers of the twentieth century.

Alexander Ivashkin is Professor of Music and Director of the Centre for Russian Music at the University of London. A cellist, he often performs works by Schnittke.
Translator John Goodliffe is based in Christchurch, New Zealand.

Table of Contents

Preliminary Table of Contents:

Preface by Mstislav Rostropovich
Translator's Note

Schnittke talks about himself
From an interview with Alexander Ivashkin

Letter to the Lenin Prize Committee (1990)

Schnittke on his own compositions
On Concerto Grosso No. 1
On the premiere of his Fourth Symphony
On film and film music
On staging Tchaikovsky's The Queen of Spades

Schnittke on creative artists
Composers
On Shostakovich: circles of influence
On Prokofiev
On Gubaidulina
On Kancheli
In Memory of Filipp Moiseevich Gershkovich (Philip Hershkovish)
Peformers
On Svyatoslav Richter
On Gennady Rozhdestvensky
Subjective Notes on an Objective Performance (on Aleksey Lyubimov)
A Writer
On Viktor Yerofeev
A Painter
On the Paintings of Vladimir Yankilevsky

V. Schnittke on twentieth-century music
1. Polystylistic tendencies in modern music
2. The orchestra and the new music
3. The problem of giving outward expression to a new idea
4. From Schnittke's archive
5. On jazz
6. Timbral relationships and their functional use: the timbral scale
7. Klangfarbenmelodie-Melody of timbres
8. Functional instability of voice-leading in musical texture
9. A new approach to composition: the statistical method
10. Stereophonic tendencies in modern orchestral thinking
11. Using rhythm to overcome metre
12. Static form: a new conception of time
13. Paradox as a feature of Stravinsky's musical logic
14. Timbre modulations in Bartok's Music for Strings, Percussion, and Celesta
15. The closed system of timbre connections in the Bach-Webern Ricercata fugue
16. The third movement of Luciano Berio's Symphony
17. Orchestral micropolyphony in the music of Ligeti

VI. Schnittke as seen by others
Gidon Kremer
Gennady Rozhdestvensky
Vladimir Yankilevsky
Mstislav Rostropovich
Mark Lubotsky

Sources

Index of names and works

Additional information

CIN0253338182G
9780253338181
0253338182
A Schnittke Reader by Alfred Schnittke
Alfred Schnittke
Used - Good
Hardback
Indiana University Press
20020816
296
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