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many composers – from Joseph Haydn (1732–1809) to Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (1840–93). The Concerti grossi parody Baroque styles with a degree of wit. Unlike other exponents of collage style, Schnittke retains a personal voice, gradually refining and paring his technique down to the taut expression of the Symphony No. 5 (1988). Schnittke’s music lends itself to the satirical plot ...

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dynamic. Recommended Recording: Choral and Orchestral Works, Orchestra and Chorus of Polish Radio and TV, Kraków (cond) Jürg Wyttenbach (Accord) Introduction | Contemporary | Classical Personalities | Alfred Schnittke (also Shnitke) | Contemporary | Classical ...

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Russian violist Bashmet studied at the Moscow Conservatory, and won the International Viola Competition, Munich, in 1976. He has given the first performance of viola concertos by Schnittke (Amsterdam, 1986) and Gubaydulina (Chicago, 1997) and of Britten’s Double Concerto for violin and viola with Gidon Kremer (Manchester, 1998). Introduction | Contemporary | Classical Personalities | ...

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are a thousand ways of probing the future.’ Olivier Messiaen Leading Exponents John Cage Elliott Carter Witold Lutosławski Karlheinz Stockhausen Pierre Boulez György Ligeti Luciano Berio Per Nørgård Alfred Schnittke Harrison Birtwistle Peter Maxwell Davies George Crumb Steve Reich Arvo Pärt Olivier Messiaen Contemporary Style Contemporary classical music often incorporates naturalistic sounds within the melodies, which are accompanied by ...

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spirit ranging from the near-pastiche of Michael Nyman (b. 1944), which revels unashamedly in its own artificiality, to the anxiety and disorientation of Wolfgang Rihm (b. 1952) and Alfred Schnittke (1934–98), whose allusions to past styles often seem to lament the loss of that same authenticity, that ability to speak clearly in one’s ‘own’ voice. The New Century The ...

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(b. 1943). The possible list is extensive and includes neo-tonal composers like Arvo Pärt (b. 1935, who draws on the music of Perotin), Steve Reich (b. 1936) and Alfred Schnittke (1934–98). The diversity of styles is perhaps surprising, but composers are often drawn to the same music for entirely different reasons. Perhaps the common thread engaging their fascination is ...

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Rex (‘King Ubu’, 1991) are acerbic satires. Opera from Communist Nations Penderecki is one of the few composers from former Communist nations whose works have reached the West. The Russian Schnittke had left the Soviet Union by the time his bleakly parodistic Life with an Idiot (1992) was premiered, while Historia von D. Johann Fausten (1995) is a wild collage ...

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statements, sometimes overt, sometimes covert, as with the Tenth Symphony (1953) and its haunting depiction of Russia under Stalinism. Dissent also found expression in the music of Schnittke, whose use of serial techniques was sufficient to ensure his marginalization within the Soviet Union, and in works such as Miserere (1981) by Górecki, explicitly written in ...

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and Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue. Martin Scorsese’s 2010 film Shutter Island used an extensive compilation score of contemporary music by Ligeti, Penderecki, Cage, Feldman, Scelsi, Schnittke and others. ...