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Schnittke A. Concerto № 1 for violin and orchestra. Score (Coll. Works. S. 3, Vol. 5a)

Schnittke A. Concerto № 1 for violin and orchestra. Score (Coll. Works. S. 3, Vol. 5a)

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Author:
Schnittke A.
Author (full):
Alfred Schnittke
Title (full):
Collected Works. Critical edition based on the composer's archive materials. Series 3. Works for solo instruments accompanied by orchestra or by ensemble. Volume 5a. Concerto № 1 for violin and orchestra. Score
Number of pages:
184

The Alfred Schnittke Collected Works Edition is a joint project of Compo-zitor • Saint Petersburg and the Alfred Schnittke Archive at Goldsmiths College, University of London. This critical edition is intended for performers, scholars and music lovers interested in Schnittke and his music. All the scores have been checked against Schnittke’s manuscripts and existing publications of his music аnd have been edited by leading performers who collaborated with the composer.

The First Violin Concerto, which Schnittke called his “Opus One”, was written in 1956–57, in his fourth year as a student at the Moscow Conservatory. With the exception of the early Sonata for violin and piano No. 0 (published for the first time in this Collected Works edition), it is the first of Schnittke’s many works for the violin. The Concerto was written at the same time as the choruses on poems by Mikhail Lermontov, Mikhail Isakovsky and Alexander Prokof’ev, the Oratorio “Nagasaki” and the Cantata “Songs of War and Peace”. At the time, the young composer was very interested in folklore, as well as in developments in the Western avant-garde; this was the period when Russian musicians finally got the opportunity to become acquainted with the works of Schoenberg, Webern, Berg, Boulez, Nono and Stockhausen.

The Concerto was written just at the time Schnittke started to develop his own style, attempting to both absorb and overcome a wide range of influences. “I consider my work on this Concerto as an impulsive and fitful search to find myself…” the composer said. “This is still the sound world of Tchaikovsky and Rachmaninov,” but clouded “by features of music by Shostakovich and by modern principles of orchestration. But it does have something that appears in my later music, so the work must be considered my First Violin Concerto.”

       

Author
Schnittke A.
Author (full)
Alfred Schnittke
Title (full)
Collected Works. Critical edition based on the composer's archive materials. Series 3. Works for solo instruments accompanied by orchestra or by ensemble. Volume 5a. Concerto № 1 for violin and orchestra. Score
Number of pages
184