A Schnittke Reader

Contents

• Preliminary Table of Contents:
• Preface by Mstislav Rostropovich
• Translator's Note
• Schnittke talks about himself
• From an interview with Alexander Ivashkin
• Letter to the Lenin Prize Committee (1990)
• Schnittke on his own compositions
• On Concerto Grosso No. 1
• On the premiere of his Fourth Symphony
• On film and film music
• On staging Tchaikovsky's The Queen of Spades
• Schnittke on creative artists
• Composers
• On Shostakovich: circles of influence
• On Prokofiev
• On Gubaidulina
• On Kancheli
• In Memory of Filipp Moiseevich Gershkovich (Philip Hershkovish)
• Peformers
• On Svyatoslav Richter
• On Gennady Rozhdestvensky
• Subjective Notes on an Objective Performance (on Aleksey Lyubimov)
• A Writer
• On Viktor Yerofeev
• A Painter
• On the Paintings of Vladimir Yankilevsky
• V. Schnittke on twentieth-century music
• 1. Polystylistic tendencies in modern music
• 2. The orchestra and "the new music"
• 3. The problem of giving outward expression to a new idea
• 4. From Schnittke's archive
• 5. On jazz
• 6. Timbral relationships and their functional use: the timbral scale
• 7. "Klangfarbenmelodie"-"Melody of timbres"
• 8. Functional instability of voice-leading in musical texture
• 9. A new approach to composition: the statistical method
• 10. Stereophonic tendencies in modern orchestral thinking
• 11. Using rhythm to overcome metre
• 12. Static form: a new conception of time
• 13. Paradox as a feature of Stravinsky's musical logic
• 14. Timbre modulations in Bartok's Music for Strings, Percussion, and Celesta
• 15. The closed system of timbre connections in the Bach-Webern Ricercata fugue
• 16. The third movement of Luciano Berio's Symphony
• 17. Orchestral micropolyphony in the music of Ligeti
• VI. Schnittke as seen by others
• Gidon Kremer
• Gennady Rozhdestvensky
• Vladimir Yankilevsky
• Mstislav Rostropovich
• Mark Lubotsky
• Sources
• Index of names and works