Oleg Nesterov: “Sheet music is, to some extent, a technology of the past”

2023-06-16 00:47:58

– I listened to an album of film music by Alfred Schnittke, posted on YouTube, and, while paying tribute to his professional ability to compose sounds and write out orchestral arrangements, I must still note that this is not exactly the Alfred Schnittke whom we admire and are horrified by. Did you and Schnittke’s heirs have any doubts about whether it was worth releasing it under his name? Dovlatov, for example, categorically forbade the inclusion in his books of journalistic texts that he published in Soviet newspapers.