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Contemplating Shostakovich marks an important new stage in the
understanding of Shostakovich and his working environment. Each
chapter covers aspects of the composer's output in the context of
his life and cultural milieu. The contributions uncover 'outside'
stimuli behind Shostakovich's works, allowing the reader to
perceive the motivations behind his artistic choices; at the same
time, the nature of those choices offers insights into the workings
of the larger world - cultural, social, political - that he
inhabited. Thus his often ostensibly quirky choices are revealed as
responses - by turns sentimental, moving, sardonic and angry - to
the particular conditions, with all their absurdities and
contradictions, that he had to negotiate. Here we see the composer
emerging from the role of tortured loner of older narratives into
that of the gregarious and engaged member of his society that, for
better and worse, characterized the everyday reality of his life.
This invaluable collection offers remarkable new insight, in both
depth and range, into the nature of Shostakovich's working
circumstances and of his response to them. The collection contains
the seeds for a wide range of new directions in the study of
Shostakovich's works and the larger contexts of their creation and
reception.
Contemplating Shostakovich marks an important new stage in the
understanding of Shostakovich and his working environment. Each
chapter covers aspects of the composer's output in the context of
his life and cultural milieu. The contributions uncover 'outside'
stimuli behind Shostakovich's works, allowing the reader to
perceive the motivations behind his artistic choices; at the same
time, the nature of those choices offers insights into the workings
of the larger world - cultural, social, political - that he
inhabited. Thus his often ostensibly quirky choices are revealed as
responses - by turns sentimental, moving, sardonic and angry - to
the particular conditions, with all their absurdities and
contradictions, that he had to negotiate. Here we see the composer
emerging from the role of tortured loner of older narratives into
that of the gregarious and engaged member of his society that, for
better and worse, characterized the everyday reality of his life.
This invaluable collection offers remarkable new insight, in both
depth and range, into the nature of Shostakovich's working
circumstances and of his response to them. The collection contains
the seeds for a wide range of new directions in the study of
Shostakovich's works and the larger contexts of their creation and
reception.
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."
This biography of the Russian composer Alfred Schnittke (b.1934)
presents a fascinating portrait of a man whose musical output is
inextricably linked to the strictures of life in the former Soviet
Union. For most of his adult life in Russia Schnittke's music was
powerfully shaped by the frustrations of the Soviet period and he
reacted strongly against the ideology of the era. His symphonies
lie arguably at the end of the Germanic symphonic tradition, yet
each represents a new concept of the genre for the twentieth
century. His works reveal the influence of Shostakovich among
others, but remain strongly original. Each of his compositions can
be understood primarily to offer a unique synthesis of many
different influences and styles.The author gives a detailed
discussion of Schnittke's music and theories, arguing that the
various stylistic elements in his works - his polystylism - may be
perceived as part of a new, more universal language.
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