Interests Meme

[kenjari]

Swiped from ivan23:

Pick one interest on my interests list. Ask me about it. I'll tell you about it, or, if you know what it is already, tell you a story related to it. You can do this in your journal, too, if you want. Or don't. Either way is fine. :)

I apologize in advance if I'm a little slow with the replies. I'm a bit busy this week, but this one sounds like too much fun to pass up.

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[kenjari.livejournal.com]

I list most of the composers on my interests list by their last name only. Schnittke is Alfred Schnittke, a Russian composer who died in 1995 of a stroke. I love his music. My sister introduced me to his work by playing me his Second String Quartet. The transition from the first to the second movement of that piece is glorious - my jaw was on the floor. His other string quartets are also quite good. He wrote a wonderful piano concerto, too, as well as an opera about the Renaissance composer Gesualdo.
Schnittke's music has a very contemporary sound, but it's hauntingly beautiful as well. He makes his dissonances so inevitable and so lovely.