Schnittke, Alfred. (1934-1998)
Autograph Manuscript Sketchleaf for a Film Score
Autograph musical manuscript containing drafts and sketches for unidentified film music, notated in short-score form, containing indications of scoring, 2 pages, black and blue ink, containing other autograph annotations, no place or date. Stamp of USSR State Symphony Orchestra Film Music Library. 23 x 30 cm. Neatly penned in Schnittke's small and precise hand. In fine condition. Rare. Autograph music of Schnittke is seldom offered on the market.The iconoclastic composer won fame in the West as he struggled against the restraints of Soviet cultural ideology at home. During the 1960s and 1970s Schnittke was one of the most prolific composers of film music in the Soviet Union, with nearly 70 credits in this field to his name. His eclectic, polystylistic style, and great flair for unusual and apt orchestration, found a natural home in this medium. It is perhaps not insignificant that Schnittke's very first composition of 1946 was later re-used in the soundtrack to a cartoon, and that some of his film music found its way in to his non-film music, as in the case of much of the score of the animated film The Glass Harmonica (1968), which resurfaced in the Second Violin Sonata (1987). (11185)
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