Vladislav Alexejewitsch Schut

Wladislaw Schut in 2008

Wladislav Alexejewitsch Schut ( Russian Владислав Алексеевич Шуть ; scientific transliteration Vladislav Alekseevich Shut ' , spelling also Vladislav Shoot ; born March 3, 1941 in Vosnesensk , Soviet Union ) is a British-Russian composer .

Life

Schut studied composition with Nikolai Peiko at the Gnessin Institute in Moscow , where he graduated in 1967. Between 1967 and 1983 he worked as a lecturer for the Soviet music magazine "Sowjetski Kompositor" before he concentrated on his work as a freelance composer. During this time he made a name for himself mainly through film music. Although he was exposed to massive pressure and even performance bans, Schut has been committed to Soviet avant-garde music since the 1970s. After the fall of the Iron Curtain , Schut founded the Society for Contemporary Music ASM ( Assozijazija sowremennoi musyki ) together with a group of Moscow composers, including Edisson Denissow , Jelena Firsowa , Nikolai Korndorf and Dmitri Smirnow . In 1992 he accepted an offer to work as composer in residence at Dartington Hall for three years, and remained in England after this program had expired.

Schut's children are also musically active today: his son Eli also works as a composer, his daughter Niki as a pianist.

music

Schut is regarded as a representative of “pure” music: He does not base his works on extra-musical content such as texts or works of art, but always starts with a sound as the basic idea. He makes use of various elements such as aleatoric music , serial music , twelve-tone technique or stylistic quotations and allusions, but Alban Berg's influence can be seen most clearly in his music. Schut himself says about his music:

“I love music in which, besides all its beauty and perfection, there is a kind of irrational door, a 'black hole', a place of chaos and mourning. The less this hole reveals about itself, the better, but it has to be there. "

When it comes to orchestration, Schut usually prefers smaller ensembles, which he in turn often subdivides into groups and creates different, overlapping soundscapes. He always leaves the interpreter a certain amount of freedom within the aleatoric limits.

Schut's music has been performed at various festivals around the world, for example the “Moscow Autumn”, the “Almeida Festival” (London), the Schleswig-Holstein Music Festival , Wien Modern , the “Présences” (Paris) and the “Ars Musica ”(Brussels). His works were also well received in other European countries, the USA and Korea. He has also composed several commissioned works, including for the BBC Symphony Orchestra (High-Cross Symphony, 1998), the Philharmonia Orchestra , Radio France and various festivals, organizations and ensembles. Radio stations in Berlin, Budapest, Cologne, London, Moscow and Paris recorded his works.

Schut has his works published by the music publisher MP Belaieff from Mainz ; individual works are also published by Boosey & Hawkes and Sikorski music publishers .

Works (selection)

Orchestral works

• Sinfonia da Camera No. 3 for flute, oboe and 2 ensembles (percussion and strings), 1978
• Romantic Messages for flute, bassoon, prepared piano and string orchestra, 1979
• Largo Sinfonia for organ and small orchestra (15 players), 1981
• Why? for small orchestra (15 players), 1986
• Ex Animo for symphony orchestra, 1988
• Sinfonia da Camera No. 4 for tam-tam and strings, 1992
• Sinfonia da Camera No. 5 for small orchestra (16 players), 1992
• Serenade for string orchestra, 1995
• Divertimento for recorder, vibraphone and string orchestra, 1997
• High-Cross Symphony for symphony orchestra, 1998
• Sinfonia da Camera No. 6 for string orchestra and percussion, 2005

Chamber music

• Sonata-fantasia for violin and piano, 1969, revised 2001
• Cuckoo's Rhymes (20 miniatures for children), for violin and piano, 1969, revised 1999
• Sonata for Cello, 1970, revised 1999
• Youth Album , for violin and piano, 1971, revised 1999
• Sinfonia da Camera No. 1 for 4 cellos, double bass and timpani, 1973
• Sinfonia da Camera No. 2 for flute, oboe, clarinet, saxophone, bassoon, viola, cello and double bass, 1975
• Five Easy Pieces for French horn and piano, 1976, revised 2001
• Sonata Breve for flute, 1977
• Trio for bassoon, cello and percussion, 1978
• Solo per bassotto for bassoon, 1978
• Metamorphosis for saxophone, harp, double bass and percussion, 1979
• Trio for 2 clarinets and bass clarinet, 1982
• Parable for percussion (6 players), 1983
• Espressivo for flute, oboe, violin, cello and piano, 1984
• Epitaph , for French horn, 2 trumpets, trombone and tuba, 1984
• Mini-partita for viola and piano, 1987
• Four Versions for bassoon and string quartet, 1990 (also arranged for bassoon, violin, viola and cello, 1996)
• Offering for violin, cello and piano, 1991
• Serenade for string quartet, 1994
• Pantomime for flute and harpsichord, 1995
• Con Passione , for string quartet and piano, 1995
• Amoroso , for clarinet and string quartet, 1996
• Chaconne for Bajan, 1999
• Pastorale for flute, clarinet, oboe, bassoon and piano, 2002
• Eternal Rest , for percussion (3 players), 2002
• Suite for string orchestra, 2003
• Three Encounters with Shostakovich for clarinet, horn, string quartet, piano and percussion, 2006

Chorals

• She came and went (text by James Russell Lowell ) for mixed choir, 2001 (also in a version for mixed choir, soprano and recorder, 2001)
• Two Holy Sonnets (text by John Donne ) for mixed choir, 2003

Vocal works

• Two songs of Robert Burns (translated by Samuil Marschak ) for mezzo-soprano and piano, 1964, revised in 2002
• Six Poems by Sergei Gorodetsky for high voice and piano, 1970
• Gleam of Light (text by Boris Pasternak ) for medium-high voice and piano, 1988
• Anticipation (text by Rainer Maria Rilke ) for high voice, 2 clarinets, viola, cello and double bass, 1993
• Four Songs on Words by PB Shelley for soprano and string quartet, 1994
• Three Songs on Words by Ossip Mandelstam for high voice, flute, clarinet and string quartet, 1994
• Day and Night (text by Fyodor Tjuttschew ) for high voice, recorder and string quartet, 2000
• The Miller's Daughter (text of an English folk song) for soprano, clarinet and percussion, 2001

piano

• Silhouettes , 1973
• Sonatina , 1974, revised in 2002
• Children's Album , 1975, revised in 1995

organ

• Confession , 1993, revised 2000

Film music

• Privet s fronta (1983) (TV) Привет с фронта "Letter from the Front"
• Tayna zemli (1985) Тайна земли "The secret of the earth"
• Carousel na bazarnoy ploshchadi (1986) Карусель на базарной площади "Carousel on the bazaar square"
• Pro lyubov, druzhbu i sud'bu (1987) Про любовь, дружбу и судьбу "About love, friendship and fate"
• Amulanga (1987)
• Korabl (1988) Корабль "The Ship"
• Mest (1989) Месть "Rache", (International / English title: "The red flute")
• Karyer (1990) Карьер " Sandpit "
• Garem Stepana Guslyakova (1990) Гарем Степана Гуслякова "Stepan Ghusliakov's Harem"
• Tsareubiytsa (1991) Цареубийца "The Tsar's Assassin"
• Lyuk (1991) Люк "The hatch"
• Serebryannye Lozhki (1991) Серебряные Ложки "Silver Spoons"
• Sumashedshaya Liubov (1992) Сумасшедшая Любовь "Crazy Love"

Discography

• Romantic Messages . Valeri Popow, bassoon; Valeri Polyanski / Moscow Conservatory Orchestra (Melodiya, 1980) (LP)
• Four versions . Valeri Popow, bassoon; Vladimir Ponkin / Moscow Contemporary Music Ensemble (Mezhdunarodnaya Kniga: MK 417036, 1991)
• Why? Alexey Winogradow / Moscow Contemporary Music Ensemble (Olympia: OCD 283, 1991)
• Trio. Valeri Popow, bassoon; Natalia Savinova, cello; Alexander Suworow, percussion (Olympia: OCD 297, 1993)
• Three Songs on Words by Osip Mandelstam . Katia Kichigina, soprano; Oxalys Ensemble (Explicit! Records: E! 99004, 2000)
• Ex Animo ; Sinfonia da Camera No. 5 ; High-Cross Symphony . Vladimir Ponkin / Rachmaninov Symphony Orchestra (Sojuz: CD0001, 2003)
• Four Songs on Words by PB Shelley . Jelena Wassiliewa, soprano; Quatuor Sine Nomine (Claves: CD 50-2303, 2003)
• Miniature Partita . Filip Davidse, saxophone; Naomi Tamura, piano in "The Soviet Saxophone" (Opus 35: OP3501, 2008)

bibliography

• Valentina Kholopova: Secrets of the Moscow Composition School in Vladislav Shoot's "Pure Music" in: "Ex oriente… III": Eight Composers from the former USSR , edited by Valeria Tsenova (studia slavica musicologica, vol. 31) (Berlin: Ernst Kuhn , 1997), ISBN 3-928864-92-0
• Marina Lobanova: Musical Style and Genre. History and Modernity (Amsterdam: Harwood Academic Publishers, 2000), ISBN 90-5755-067-9 , pages 167-9.
• Gerard McBurney:  Shoot [Shut ′], Vladislav Alekseyevich. In: Grove Music Online (English; subscription required).

Web links

• Vladislav Shoot , biography at Schott Music
• Schut at classical composers
• Schut at Composers 21

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Vladislav Shoot , profile at Schott Music