Special Offer (September 2009)

Alfred Schnittke - 75th Birthday on November 24, 2009:

Alfred Schnittke, born on 24 November 1934 in Engels on the Volga, started his musical career in 1946 in Vienna, where his father worked for a newspaper at the time. He had private piano lessons, went to operas and concerts, and wrote his first compositions. After moving to Moscow in 1948, Schnittke first studied to be a choral conductor. Subsequently, from 1953 to 1958, he studied composition and counterpoint with Yevgeni Golubev and instrumentation with Nikolai Rakov at the Moscow Conservatory. At this time he was influenced by Filip Gershkovich, a student of Webern, who lived in Moscow.

Schnittke composed numerous works during his three postgraduate years. After a period of dodecaphonic writing in the sixties, his music later attained a "polystylistic" technique which made use of earlier historical styles. Schnittke taught instrumentation at the Moscow Conservatory from 1962 until 1972. Here he began to publish numerous theoretical works on various aspects of contemporary music.

From 1975 onwards, his music began to be played at all the important contemporary music festivals, and in the 1980s it was included in the concert programmes of leading orchestras throughout the world. His works were performed in festivals and concert cycles held in many cities, including Moscow, Stockholm, London, Huddersfield, Vienna, Berlin, Turin, Lucerne, Hamburg and Cologne. Schnittke was professor of composition at the Hamburg Musikhochschule from 1989 to 1994. Numerous and prestigious awards were proof of the high esteem in which Alfred Schnittke was held by the musical world during his lifetime.

During the last years of his life Schnittke suffered from a severe and crippling illness, which led to his death on August 3, 1998.

HARRASSOWITZ has compiled the following list of works by Alfred Schnittke. This list contains authorized photocopies of important works by Schnittke, which have not been available on sale until now. The publisher of all these print-on-demand editions is Sikorski (Hamburg).

Stage works

Gesualdo. Oper in sieben Bildern, einem Prolog und einem Epilog. Full score.
EUR 432.00
HARR ID 015011157

Historia von D. Johann Fausten. Oper in drei Akten und einem Epilog. Full score.
EUR 527.50
HARR ID 015011158

Life with an idiot. Opera in 2 acts. Full score.
EUR 236.50
HARR ID 095015810

Peer Gynt. Ballett in drei Akten frei nach Henrik Ibsens dramatischem Gedicht. Full score.
EUR 365.50
HARR ID 095015817

Sketches. Ballet in one act after themes by Nikolai Gogol. Full score.
EUR 233.00
HARR ID 095015820

Works for choir and orchestra

Agnus Dei. For solo voices, women choir and orchestra. Score.
EUR 11.50
HARR ID 095015786

Der gelbe Klang. Ballettsuite nach Wassili Kandinsky. For ensemble, soprano solo and mixed choir. Score.
EUR 43.00
HARR ID 095015671

Festlicher Cantus. For violin, piano, mixed choir and orchestra. Full score.
EUR 16.50
HARR ID 095015772

Lux aeterna. For mixed choir and orchestra. Full score.
EUR 15.50
HARR ID 005125191

Nagasaki. Oratorio for mezzo-soprano, mixed choir and orchestra. Full score.
EUR 219.00
HARR ID 095015789

Seid nüchtern und wachet. Cantata for alto, counter-tenor, tenor, bass, mixed choir and orchestra. Full score.
EUR 205.50
HARR ID 095015791

Orchestral works

Epilog aus dem Ballett "Peer Gynt". For orchestra. Full score.
EUR 71.50
HARR ID 095015783

Hommage a Grieg. For orchestra. Full score.
EUR 13.00
HARR ID 095015693

Ritual. For orchestra. Full score.
EUR 29.00
HARR ID 095015699

Sinfonie Nr. 1. For orchestra. Full score.
EUR 298.00
HARR ID 095015743

Vier Aphorismen. For orchestra. Full score.
EUR 21.50
HARR ID 095015685

Works for solo instrument(s) and orchestra

Concerto for piano and orchestra. Full score.
EUR 222.50
HARR ID 095015745

Concerto grosso Nr. 2. For violin, violoncello and orchestra. Full score.
EUR 86.50
HARR ID 015005963

Concerto grosso Nr. 5. For violin, invisible piano and orchestra. Full score.
EUR 74.00
HARR ID 095015765

Concerto no. 1 for violin and orchestra. Full score.
EUR 184.00
HARR ID 095013263

Second concerto for violin and chamber orchestra. Full score.
EUR 103.00
HARR ID 095015662

Konzert für Klavier vierhändig und Kammerorchester. Full score.
EUR 92.00
HARR ID 095015750

Please order through your normal library channels, or contact service@harrassowitz.de for more information. If ordering outside of OttoEditions, please include the HARR ID to expedite your order.

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