Schnittke, Alfred.

notated in black ink and pencil, in short score form, on two- and three-stave systems (mostly two-stave), with autograph heading ("Anitra") and indications of the scoring (the named instruments being piccolo, 2 flutes, 2 clarinets, bass clarinet, 2 bassoons, contra bassoon, 3 horns, 3 trumpets, 3 trombones and tuba, timpani, cymbals, harp, 2 pianos and strings), dated by the composer at the end of the score ("Hamburg, 5. Januar 1989")



2 pages, folio (31.6 x 24cm), with a printed facsimile of Schnittke's autograph full score of the dance, the draft dated Hamburg, 5 January 1989, some light creasing

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This is a working manuscript of a number from one of Schnittke's most important works, his ballet Peer Gynt, first performed, with choreography by John Neumeier, at Hamburg, 22 January 1989.

Anitra's Dance was a later composition inserted after fig. 61 in the Hamburg production (into the "Film Sequence" in Akt II, no. 23). Composed by Schnittke in half a day, it had been required on account of a stipulation in the contract of the solo dancer Chantal Lefèvre with the Hamburg Ballet which guaranteed her a major solo number. The manuscript draft for it is of great interest, diverging as it does significantly from the final version. The draft contains the music of the final version up to fig. C and from fig. E onwards, and includes 11 bars of music which are not to be found in the finished score of the dance. The chords which follow the end of piece appear to be a working out of the string chords at fig. D of the final version. See lot 159.

Literature: Peer Gynt. Klavierauszug, ed. Maxim Gutkin (Hamburg, [2000]), pp. 150-155