Alfred Schnittke: Künstlerische Identität oder (Post) moderne Mythologie?
Alfred Schnittke: Artistic Identity or (Post) Modern Mythology?

Summary/Abstract: The fundamental question of identity on all levels - national, religious, socio-political, cultural, existential - which presupposes all of Schnittke's work finds its answer in the polystylistic method developed by Schnittke. According to this method, there are two types of relationship to tradition: the quotation principle and the allusion principle. Polystylistics becomes an expression of Schnittke's artistic worldview. This is evident in the inner program of his instrumental work, but above all in the dramaturgy of his stage works. The author takes the opera Historia by D. Johann Fausten and Life with an Idiot as an example.

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