This is iniquitous!!!!! Know of my support through this trying time fellow short king 💛💛

I’m even more boring 🤣

had sex:❌️
faked id:❌
had a bf/gf: ❌
gotten high: ❌️
had alcohol:✅
failed a class: ❌
gone to the club: ❌️
smoked/vaped: ❌️
kissed someone: ❌
gotten detention: ❌️
kicked from class: ❌️
cheated on a test: ✅
snuck out the house: ❌️

I’ve just stopped caring and have fun in my own way haha

Oooh!!!!

I recommend paying special attention to the Tuba Mirum section, perhaps the most haunting of them all, and certainly the bleakest. (7/7)

In this way, Schnittke was perhaps finally able to find identity in his music and in the honoring of his mother's passing. This music, however bleak, represents his life journey. I hope you all get as much out of it as I do!!! (6/7)

Schnittke's Requiem is a piece of profound depth, but also of great pain, fear, and emotion. Schnittke makes present the existential dread of death in each line of music- yet, invariably between the lines, a Catholic hope in the Resurrection is present all the same. (5/7)

This birthed firstly his "Piano Quintet," a wordless mourning piece in honour of his mother. However, the true culmination was to be his Requiem. Having sought solace in Catholicism, his mother's religion, he began to work on a Catholic way to eulogise her death. (4/7)

However, all this changed when Schnittke's mother died in 1972. His polystylism came to an abrupt end, and his music took on a much darker, bleaker tone. Death became the singular focus of his musical expression, especially the singularity of it for each individual. (3/7)

Schnittke was a German-Jewish Russian, with a diversity of cultural upbringing. He lacked a sense of where he belonged. Perhaps this is what led to his early compositions, which fell under the genre of "polystylism"- employing multiple different styles of music at once. (2/7)

Awwwwww