Alexander Mikhailovich Raskatov

Alexander Michailowitsch Raskatow ( Russian Алекса́ндр Миха́йлович Раска́тов ; born March 9, 1953 in Moscow , Soviet Union ) is a Russian composer.

Alexander Raskatov, son of a leading journalist for Krokodil magazine and a doctor and war heroine from World War II, studied composition under Albert Leman at the Moscow Conservatory . In 1978 he completed his studies and completed a four-year traineeship under Tichon Nikolajewitsch Chrennikow . In 1990 Raskatow was Composer in Residence at Stetson University and in 1998 at Lockenhaus . He settled in Germany in the early 1990s.

The influences of Stravinsky and Webern can be seen in Raskatow's sound development and concentrated treatment of materials . For his vocal works he often falls back on Russian poems, for example Blok , Chlebnikow or Brodsky .

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Opera

• The Pit and the Pendulum (1989-91)

Opera in 5 acts based on Edgar Allan Poe 's story of the same name

Libretto: Alexei Parin (Russian)

• A Dog's Heart (2008/09)

Opera in two acts based on Mikhail Bulgakov's story Dog Heart

Libretto: Cesare Mazzonis (Russian)

• GerMANIA (2018)

Opera based on Heiner Müller's Germania Tod in Berlin (1956–1971) and Germania 3 (1995)

Libretto in German and Russian

orchestra

• Night Hymns (1982-84)

Chamber concert for piano and 11 instrumentalists

• Concerto for oboe and 15 strings (1987)

Dedicated to Tony Rothman

• Six Psalmodies (1990)

for viola, harp and 15 strings

• Gens Extorris (2005)

for piano and strings

• Steady Time (2007)

three orchestral interludes from Modest Mussorgsky's cycle Songs and Dances of Death from 1877

Vocal work

• Circle of Singing (2000)

for baritone and piano, text: AS Pushkin , FI Tjuttschew

• Let there be night (1989)

5 fragments by Samuel Taylor Coleridge for counter tenor and string trio, dedicated to Elizabeth Wilson

• Gra-Ka-Kha-Ta (1988)

for tenor and 4 percussionists, text: Velimir Klebnikow , dedicated to Alexei Martinow & Mark Pekarski

• "... And Meadows Merge into the Sky ..." (2004)

for soprano and string quartet, text: Gennadi Aigi , Evgeni Baratinski , Vasily Zhukowski

• "Nunc Dimittis" (2007)

for mezzo-soprano, male voice and orchestra, text: Joseph Brodsky , Starets Siluan , dedicated to Alfred Schnittke

Chamber music

• Little Tripdych (1975)

for oboe

• Canti (1978)

for viola

• Dramatic Games (1979)

Sonata for violoncello - Quasi una sonata

• Four Bagatelles (1980)

for 2 violins & bassoon

• Invitation to a Concert (1981)

for 2 percussionists, dedicated to Mark Pekarsky

• Piano Sonata (1981)
• Remembrance of an Alpine Rose (1982)

for 6 percussionists, music box and band

• Muta III (1986)

for 3 flutes

• Sentimental Sequences (1986)

for 12 instrumentalists

• Two Pieces (1986)

for double bass & piano

• Punctuation Marks (1989)

for harpsichord, dedicated to Petya Kaufman

• Illusion (1990)

for drums

• Dolce Far Niente (1991)

for violoncello & piano, dedicated to Vladimir Tarnopolsky

• Time of Falling Flowers (2006)

for 6 instrumentalists

Arrangements

Arrangement of Sergei Prokofiev's Sonata No. 2 for cello & piano , op.119 (1949)

• String Quartet No. 7 (2001)

Arrangement for string orchestra by Dmitri Shostakovich's String Quartet No. 7 in F sharp minor , op.108 (1960)

• Songs and Dances of Death (2007)

Arrangement for bass & orchestra from M. Mussorgski's cycle (1877), text: Arseni Golenishchev-Kutuzov

• Symphony No. 9 (2007)

Reconstruction of A. Schnittke's Symphony No. 9 (1997/98)