“A. Schnittke's Suite in the Old Style: "Matters of style"

Authors

  • Anahit Varuzhan Lavchyan Yerevan State Conservatory

Keywords:

symphonic style, baroque suite, neoclassicism, avant-garde music, polystylistics, film music, stylization

Abstract

  Violinist, Docent of YSC Anahit Varuzhan Lavchyan. - “A. Schnittke's Suite in the Old Style: "Matters of style" ”. In the methodological work, the creative path of the outstanding composer can be traced. He stands as a mature master whose music happened to be bold, innovative and avant-garde. He was a composer in a perpetual creative search tackling various, at times mutually exclusive music styles. In his Suite in the Old Style Schnittke mingles the old with the new. The suite seems to be written in the 17th century however many things in the way it sounds are characteristic exclusively of the 20th century music. The author presents sheet music examples, draws interesting analogies with the works of the composers from different ages. This is a superb example of polystylism of Alfred Schnittke as a mixture of various old and new styles and contemporary, postmodern, classical and baroque ideas.  

Author Biography

Anahit Varuzhan Lavchyan, Yerevan State Conservatory

(born 1955). From 1963-1971 studied at the Tbilisi comprehensive high school N 33. From 1971-1974 studied in the Tbilisi musical school N 2 after Z. Paliashvili. From 1976-1981 studied in the YSC at orchestral faculty (specialty "Violin"). From 1991-1992 have completed a course in Longy School of Music in the USA. From 2004-2006 have completed a postgraduate study course in YSC . Since 1977 the actress of orchestra of National academic opera and ballet theater after A. Spendiaryan. Since 1991 concertmaster of the department of chamber ensemble of YSC. From 2003-2009 worked in National philharmonic orchestra of Armenia. Since 2001 the teacher of department of chamber ensemble of YSC. Since 2013 docent of YSC. She had numerous concerts as the leader of department of chamber ensemble, since 2001 had annual concerts of students of a class L., she participated in G. Akhinyan, G. Pitedzhyan, S. Hovhannisyan's anniversary concerts. She had more than ten concerts in the USA as a part of various musical ensemble of Longy school of music and also concerts organized by local Armenian diaspora, concerts as a part of the piano "Romanza" trio (from 2004-2008), a concert of chamber music in the Concert hall of the Pitsunda temple (Abkhazia, 2017). She participated in the international musical festival "Perform me". She is an editor of M. Afrikyan's song collections ("7 prayers", 2014, "The key to the dialogue," 2015); "Two Poems", //YSC's Bulletin educational-methodological articles 8-9.1, 2011-2012; "Methodical Analysis of the Piano Trio of Grigor Akhinyan", //YSC's Bulletin educational-methodological articles 8-9.1, 2011-2012); "A little bit about strokes", (Educational-methodological digest, vol. 4, 2007); “Dedicated to Eugéne Ysaye”, /Educational-methodological digest, vol. 4, 2006); The laurate of the first award of the fifth international competition festival of performing musicians "Renaissance" as a part of the trio (G. Oganesyan, A. Petrosyan), Gyumri, Armenia, (2013); diplomas at the second republican competition of chamber ensembles of K. Kostanyan (S. Marutyan, A. Karapetyan, A. Harutyunyan, T. Frangulyan, 2013); first award of the fourth international competition festival of performing musicians "Renaissance" (A. Harutyunyan, T. Frangulyan, 2012); the third award at the first republican competition of chamber ensembles of K. Kostanyan (G. Hakobyan, A. Hovanyan, 2008); the diploma at the first republican competition of chamber ensembles of K. Kostanyan (Zh. Hakobyan, 2008).

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Published

2018-03-22

How to Cite

Lavchyan А. В. (2018). “A. Schnittke’s Suite in the Old Style: "Matters of style" . Musical Armenia, 1(54), 32–35. Retrieved from https://yerazhshtakanhayastan.am/index.php/ma/article/view/13

Issue

Vol. 1 No. 54 (2018): Musical Armenia

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