#german composers
Ladies, if he:
- never texts you back
- is always sleeping too much
- is generally unhealthy
- had a spiritual experience in Vienna
- dreams of uniting serious and light music
He’s not your man. He’s Soviet/German composer Alfred Schnittke.
‘The grave of the Russian composer Alfred Schnittke in Novodevichye Cemetery in Moscow is surmounted by a stone on which is engraved a rest beneath a fermata with a triple forte noted at the bottom: A very, very loud extended silence.’
- John Biguenet, Silence (London: Bloomsbury, 2015), p.49.
The fermata suggests the indicated notation (in this case, a rest) is to continue at the discretion of the conductor. When the chosen conductor arrives, Alfred Schnittke will rise again.
that’s for orchestral pieces though, in solo pieces the performer decides how long to hold it… which means,,
the chosen conductor isn’t needed, Schnittke will rise when we need him the most
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