Sonic Overload: Alfred Schnittke, Valentin Silvestrov, and Polystylism in the Late USSR

"Sonic Overload: Alfred Schnittke, Valentin Silvestrov, and Polystylism in the Late USSR"

by Peter J. Schmelz is a complex and comprehensive portrait of the late-Soviet polystylism and cultural life.

 

In "Sonic Overload: Alfred Schnittke, Valentin Silvestrov, and Polystylism in the Late USSR"

Peter J. Schmelz analyses the polystylism and th cultural history of the late Soviet Union’s final decades from a musical perspective and with a special focus on the art by composers like Alfred Schnittke and Valentin Silvestrov. The book unfolds the Soviet Union’s cultural life from new perspectives and from new historic sources like archival research, oral historical interviews, and other overlooked primary materials such as scores and recordings.