Buch, Englisch, 176 Seiten, Format (B × H): 140 mm x 206 mm, Gewicht: 204 g
Reihe: The Oxford Keynotes Series
Buch, Englisch, 176 Seiten, Format (B × H): 140 mm x 206 mm, Gewicht: 204 g
Reihe: The Oxford Keynotes Series
ISBN: 978-0-19-065372-9
Verlag: Sydney University Press
Thanks to it and his other similar compositions, Schnittke became one of the most-performed and most-recorded living composers at the end of the twentieth century.
Peter J. Schmelz's Alfred Schnittke's Concerto Grosso no. 1 represents the first accessible and comprehensive study of this composition. The novel structure of the book engages with the piece conceptually, historically, musically, and phenomenologically, with the six movements of the composition framing the six chapters. Augmenting and complicating the insights of existing English, Russian, and German publications on the Concerto Grosso no. 1, the book adds new information
from underused primary sources, including Schnittke's unpublished correspondence and his many published interviews. It engages further with his sketches for the piece, and with contemporary Soviet musical criticism, resulting in a more objective, historical account of this rich, multifaceted composition, its influences,
and its impact on music making in the USSR and worldwide.