The Routledge Handbook to the Music of Alfred Schnittke

Contents

• CHAPTER 1: ERAS AND TECHNIQUES
• STUDENT WORKS 1953–1963
• SERIAL PERIOD 1963–1971
• Serialism — Sonorism: Ligeti and the Polish School
• FUNEREAL AND RELIGIOUS WORKS 1972–1980
• Funereal Works: Schnittke’s Quiet Period — Religious Works — Liturgical Allusions in Instrumental Works — Representations of the Cross — Common-Mediant Chord Relations — Bells
• POLYSTYLISM 1968–1991
• Representations of Evil: Popular Music and the Banal — Bach and the Baroque — Monograms — Harmonic and Contrapuntal Techniques — Non-tonal Triadic Relations — The [0,1,6,7] Pitch Set — Schnittke Stretto — Structural Innovations — Sonoristic Cadences — Cod
• LATE STYLE 1985–1994
• CHAPTER 2 – STAGE WORKS
• BALLETS
• Introduction — Labyrinths — Der gelbe Klang — Gogol Suite and Sketches — Peer Gynt
• OPERAS
• Introduction — Life with an Idiot — Gesualdo — Historia von D. Johann Fausten
• THEATRE MUSIC
• CHAPTER 3: CHORAL WORKS
• Introduction — Nagasaki — Songs of War and Peace — Voices of Nature — Requiem — Der Sonnengesang des Franz von Assisi — Minnesang — Seid nüchtern und wachet... (Faust Cantata) — Three Choruses — Choir Concerto — Penitential Psalms — Opening Verse for the
• CHAPTER 4: SOLO VOCAL WORKS
• Introduction — Three Poems of Marina Tsvetaeva — 10 Songs from Turandot — Eight Songs from Don Carlos — Magdalina’s Song — Three Madrigals — Three Scenes — Drei Gedichte von Viktor Schnittke — Mutter — 5 Fragments to Paintings by Hieronymus Bosch/Fragment
• CHAPTER 5 – ORCHESTRAL WORKS
• SYMPHONIES
• Introduction — Symphony No. 1 — Symphony No. 2 ‘St Florian’ — Symphony No. 3 — Symphony No. 4 — Concerto Grosso No. 4/Symphony No. 5 — Symphony No. 6 — Symphony No. 7 — Symphony No. 8 — Symphony No. 9 —
• CONCERTOS AND CONCERTI GROSSI
• Introduction — Violin Concerto No. 1 — Concerto for Piano and Orchestra — Music for Piano and Chamber Orchestra — Violin Concerto No. 2 — Concerto for Oboe and Harp — Cadenzas to Concertos by Beethoven and Mozart — Concerto Grosso No. 1 — Violin Concerto
• OTHER ORCHESTRAL WORKS
• pianissimo... — Passacaglia — Ritual — (Kein) Sommernachtstraum — Four Aphorisms for Chamber Orchestra — Sutartinės — Hommage a Grieg — Symphonic Prologue and For Liverpool
• CHAPTER 6: CHAMBER WORKS
• Introduction
• WORKS FOR STRING QUARTET
• String Quartet No. 1 — String Quartet No. 2 — String Quartet No. 3 — String Quartet No. 4 — Canon in Memoriam Igor Stravinsky — Variations for String Quartet
• WORKS FOR VIOLIN AND PIANO/VIOLIN DUET/VIOLIN SOLO
• Violin Sonata No. 1 — Violin Sonata No. 2 (Quasi una Sonata) — Violin Sonata No. 3 — Suite in the Old Style and Musica Nostalgica — Greeting Rondo — Prelude in Memoriam Dmitry Shostakovich — Stille Nacht — A Paganini — Madrigal in Memoriam Oleg Kagan — Po
• WORKS FOR CELLO AND PIANO/CELLO SOLO/CELLO AND ENSEMBLE
• Cello Sonata No. 1 — Cello Sonata No. 2 — Dialogue for Cello and 7 Instrumentalists — 4 Hymns for Cello and Ensemble — Klingende Buchstaben — Epilogue from Peer Gynt — Improvisation for Unaccompanied Cello
• WORKS FOR STRING ENSEMBLE/STRINGS AND PIANO
• Piano Quintet — Stille Musik — String Trio/Piano Trio — Canon An das Frankfurter Opernhaus — Piano Quartet
• OTHER CHAMBER WORKS
• Serenade — Cantus Perpetuus for Keyboard and Percussion — Polyphonic Tango — Moz-Art/Moz-Art à la Haydn/Moz-Art à la Mozart — Septet — Lebenslauf — Schall und Hall — 3x7 — For the Ninetieth Birthday of Alfred Schlee — Percussion Quartet
• CHAPTER 7: KEYBOARD WORKS
• Introduction
• PIANO SONATAS
• Piano Sonata No. 1 — Piano Sonata No. 2 — Piano Sonata No. 3
• OTHER PIANO WORKS
• Children’s Pieces, 1960 and 1971 — Prelude and Fugue — Improvisation and Fugue — Variations on a Chord — Dedication to Igor Stravinsky, Sergei Prokofiev and Dmitri Shostakovich for Piano Six Hands — Five Aphorisms for Piano and Reciter — Sonatina for Pian
• ORGAN AND HARPSICHORD WORKS
• Two Short Pieces for Organ — Three Fragments for Harpsichord
• CHAPTER 8: FILM MUSIC
• Introduction — Igor Talankin — Andrei Khrzhanovsky — Aleksandr Mitta — Larisa Shepitko —
• Elem Klimov — Late Film Scores — Concert Suites
• WORKS LIST
• A NOTE ON SOURCES
• BIBLIOGRAPHY
• INDEX