1989/03/01 by Ivan Moody · 2 citations
Arts and Humanities · #Aesthetics #Art #Diverse Musicological Studies #Focus (optics) #History #Inheritance (genetic algorithm) #Irony #Literature #Music History and Culture #Musicology and Musical Analysis #Natural (archaeology) #Successor cardinal
paper · doi:10.1017/s0040298200024876
openalex publication_date 1989/03/01 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/06/11
In recent years, Alfred Schnittke has seemed to provide a point of focus for interest in Russian music which has been absent since the death of Shostakovich in 1975: not least because he appears in some respects to be the latter's natural successor. Many of Shostakovich's aesthetic as well as technical preoccupations have played a significant part in Schnittke's work. Schnittke has developed these preoccupations, in fact, to a further extreme: his principal inheritance from Shostakovich, the sense of irony and alienation, has become the most obvious trait in the music of a composer who has consistently followed his own star quite independently of any stylistic clique.