Author: Schnittke, Alfred; Author: Translator Goodliffe, John
Russian Music Studies; Hardback; Book; Index
352 pages
Published: August 2002
Indiana University Press
ISBN: 0253338182

This compilation assembles previously published and unpublished essays by Schnittke and supplements them with an interview with cellist and scholar Alexander Ivashkin.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.The first English-language collection of Schnittke's writings. The compositions of Alfred Schnittke are known for their exquisite construction, their unlikely embrace of material from disprate souces, their predisposition for melancholia, and their tremendous beauty. This title explores his life, work, other composers, and a broad range of topics.