Alfred Schnittke
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Alfred Schnittke, Sofia Gubaidulina und Edison Denisov zählten seit den 1960er Jahren in der Sowjetunion und im Westen zu den namhaftesten Komponisten. Sie galten als „Erben Šostakovčs“und schufen für viele Sowjetbürger aufregende Klänge,... more
Focusing on a selection of musical works from within three genres –- symphony, string quartet, and the piano repertoire –- I argue that the experience of music from the late 20th and early 21st centuries must be understood in terms of its... more
The famous theory of the “anxiety of influence” (Harold Bloom) seems to be insufficient to explain the admiration and reverence for Bach which highly different composers such as Mahler and Reger, Schoenberg and Shostakovich, and Webern... more
Liner Notes for album booklet of "Violin Declamations from the Twilight of the Workers' Paradise", a CD released on January 12, 2018 by Urlicht AudioVisual (UAV-5984). By Elmira Darvarova ©2017
Existen conciertos de compositores, existen conciertos de obras y existen también conciertos de intérpretes. El concierto de hoy es difícilmente clasificable por ser, de forma maravillosa, mágica, una mezcla de todos ellos. En primer... more
[ITA] Il saggio indaga sui caratteri stilistici di alcune composizioni di musicisti del secolo appena trascorso (Stravinskij, Ligeti, Schnittke, Nono e Berio), mettendole in relazione con la tradizione al fine di evidenziare il processo... more
Explores the ideas of Alfred Schnittke on music and logic.
This paper written from the creative perspective of composer, I will examine the concept of “Engaged Music” through an analysis of fragments of Alfred Schnittke’s opera “Life with an Idiot” from 1991.
“Fragments from a Broken Country: Jérôme Blais, in Discussion with Philipp Reisner,” Intersections: Canadian Journal of Music 38/1–2 (2018) 153–62.
Το παρόν κείμενο συνιστά μια υβριδική μορφή μεταξύ άρθρου και κριτικού αναστοχασμού, πραγματευόμενο ζητήματα ιστορίας, ιδεολογικών ζητημάτων και ερμηνείας, ορμώμενο από την παρουσίαση του Κοντσέρτου για Χορωδία του Άλφρεντ Σνίτκε υπό τη... more
Diskussion Musikpädagogik 73 (2017) 49–55 [together with Nils Hilbricht].