Gavin Dixon is a writer and editor specialising in classical music. He is Editor of Schnittke Studies (Routledge 2017) and Music Editor of Fanfare, America's leading classical review magazine.

CHAPTER 1: ERAS AND TECHNIQUES

STUDENT WORKS 1953-1963

SERIAL PERIOD 1963-1971

Serialism - Sonorism: Ligeti and the Polish School

FUNEREAL AND RELIGIOUS WORKS 1972-1980

Funereal Works: Schnittke's Quiet Period - Religious Works - Liturgical Allusions in Instrumental Works - Representations of the Cross - Common-Mediant Chord Relations - Bells

POLYSTYLISM 1968-1991

Representations of Evil: Popular Music and the Banal - Bach and the Baroque - Monograms - Harmonic and Contrapuntal Techniques - Non-tonal Triadic Relations - The [0,1,6,7] Pitch Set - Schnittke Stretto - Structural Innovations - Sonoristic Cadences - Coda as Exposition

LATE STYLE 1985-1994

CHAPTER 2 - STAGE WORKS

BALLETS

Introduction - Labyrinths - Der gelbe Klang - Gogol Suite and Sketches - Peer Gynt

OPERAS

Introduction - Life with an Idiot - Gesualdo - Historia von D. Johann Fausten

THEATRE MUSIC

CHAPTER 3: CHORAL WORKS

Introduction - Nagasaki - Songs of War and Peace - Voices of Nature - Requiem - Der Sonnengesang des Franz von Assisi - Minnesang - Seid nüchtern und wachet... (Faust Cantata) - Three Choruses - Choir Concerto - Penitential Psalms - Opening Verse for the First Festival Sunday - Festive Chant - Agnus Dei - Lux Aeterna

CHAPTER 4: SOLO VOCAL WORKS

Introduction - Three Poems of Marina Tsvetaeva - 10 Songs from Turandot - Eight Songs from Don Carlos - Magdalina's Song - Three Madrigals - Three Scenes - Drei Gedichte von Viktor Schnittke - Mutter - 5 Fragments to Paintings by Hieronymus Bosch/Fragment for Orchestra

CHAPTER 5 - ORCHESTRAL WORKS

SYMPHONIES

Introduction - Symphony No. 1 - Symphony No. 2 'St Florian' - Symphony No. 3 - Symphony No. 4 - Concerto Grosso No. 4/Symphony No. 5 - Symphony No. 6 - Symphony No. 7 - Symphony No. 8 - Symphony No. 9 -

CONCERTOS AND CONCERTI GROSSI

Introduction - Violin Concerto No. 1 - Concerto for Piano and Orchestra - Music for Piano and Chamber Orchestra - Violin Concerto No. 2 - Concerto for Oboe and Harp - Cadenzas to Concertos by Beethoven and Mozart - Concerto Grosso No. 1 - Violin Concerto No. 3 - Concerto for Piano and Strings - Concerto Grosso No. 2 - Violin Concerto No. 4 - Concerto Grosso No. 3 - Viola Concerto - Cello Concerto No. 1 - Concerto for Piano Four Hands - Monologue for Viola and Strings - Cello Concerto No. 2 - Concerto Grosso No. 5 - Concerto Grosso No. 6 - Concerto for Three - Viola Concerto No. 2

OTHER ORCHESTRAL WORKS

pianissimo... - Passacaglia - Ritual - (Kein) Sommernachtstraum - Four Aphorisms for Chamber Orchestra - Sutartin¿s - Hommage a Grieg - Symphonic Prologue and For Liverpool

CHAPTER 6: CHAMBER WORKS

Introduction

WORKS FOR STRING QUARTET

String Quartet No. 1 - String Quartet No. 2 - String Quartet No. 3 - String Quartet No. 4 - Canon in Memoriam Igor Stravinsky - Variations for String Quartet

WORKS FOR VIOLIN AND PIANO/VIOLIN DUET/VIOLIN SOLO

Violin Sonata No. 1 - Violin Sonata No. 2 (Quasi una Sonata) - Violin Sonata No. 3 - Suite in the Old Style and Musica Nostalgica - Greeting Rondo - Prelude in Memoriam Dmitry Shostakovich - Stille Nacht - A Paganini - Madrigal in Memoriam Oleg Kagan - Polka for Violin and Piano

WORKS FOR CELLO AND PIANO/CELLO SOLO/CELLO AND ENSEMBLE

Cello Sonata No. 1 - Cello Sonata No. 2 - Dialogue for Cello and 7 Instrumentalists - 4 Hymns for Cello and Ensemble - Klingende Buchstaben - Epilogue from Peer Gynt - Improvisation for Unaccompanied Cello

WORKS FOR STRING ENSEMBLE/STRINGS AND PIANO

Piano Quintet - Stille Musik - String Trio/Piano Trio - Canon An das Frankfurter Opernhaus - Piano Quartet

OTHER CHAMBER WORKS

Serenade - Cantus Perpetuus for Keyboard and Percussion - Polyphonic Tango - Moz-Art/Moz-Art à la Haydn/Moz-Art à la Mozart - Septet - Lebenslauf - Schall und Hall - 3x7 - For the Ninetieth Birthday of Alfred Schlee - Percussion Quartet

CHAPTER 7: KEYBOARD WORKS

Introduction

PIANO SONATAS

Piano Sonata No. 1 - Piano Sonata No. 2 - Piano Sonata No. 3

OTHER PIANO WORKS

Children's Pieces, 1960 and 1971 - Prelude and Fugue - Improvisation and Fugue - Variations on a Chord - Dedication to Igor Stravinsky, Sergei Prokofiev and Dmitri Shostakovich for Piano Six Hands - Five Aphorisms for Piano and Reciter - Sonatina for Piano Four Hands

ORGAN AND HARPSICHORD WORKS

Two Short Pieces for Organ - Three Fragments for Harpsichord

CHAPTER 8: FILM MUSIC

Introduction - Igor Talankin - Andrei Khrzhanovsky - Aleksandr Mitta - Larisa Shepitko -

Elem Klimov - Late Film Scores - Concert Suites

WORKS LIST

A NOTE ON SOURCES

BIBLIOGRAPHY

INDEX