Alfred Schnittke
The Soviet composer who spliced Baroque pastiche, serialism and film music into single works and called it polystylism, studied by the cellist who premiered him.
Ivashkin knew Schnittke and premiered much of his music, and writes about the method the composer called polystylism: Baroque pastiche, serialism and film music spliced into single works. The account sets him between German rationalism and Russian irrationalism, and is good on the Volga German childhood that put him outside both.
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Tyler Cowen
Lately I have been listening to the Psalms of Remembrance and the violin sonata #2. I had not known that Schnittke grew up speaking Volga German.
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