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Alfred Garrievich Schnittke (24 November 1934 – 3 August 1998) was a Russian composer. [1] [n 2] Among the most performed and recorded composers of late 20th-century classical music , [1] [6] he is described by musicologist Ivan Moody as a "composer who was concerned in his music to depict the moral and spiritual struggles of ...
Alfred Schnittke was born in Engels in the Volga-German Republic of the Russian SFSR. He began his musical education in 1946 in Vienna, where his father had been posted. It was in Vienna, Schnittke's biographer Alexander Ivashkin writes, where "he fell in love with music which is part of life, part of history and culture, part of the past which ...
This is a list of compositions by composer Alfred Schnittke . Orchestral. Symphonies. Symphony No. 0 (1956–57) Symphony No. 1 (1969–74) Symphony No. 2 "St. Florian" (1979) Symphony No. 3 (1981) Symphony No. 4 (1983) Symphony No. 5 [Concerto Grosso No. 4] (1988) Symphony No. 6 (1992) Symphony No. 7 (1993) Symphony No. 8 (1994)
Alfred Schnittke was a postmodernist Russian composer who created serious, dark-toned musical works characterized by abrupt juxtapositions of radically different, often contradictory, styles, an approach that came to be known as “polystylism.” Schnittke’s father was a Jewish journalist who had been.
Concertante works. Violin and orchestra. Concerto No. 1 for Violin and Orchestra (1957, revised 1963) Concerto No. 2 for Violin and Chamber Orchestra (1966) Concerto No. 3 for Violin and Chamber Orchestra (1978) Concerto No. 4 for Violin and Orchestra (1984) Piano and orchestra. Poème for Piano and Orchestra (1953)
Alfred Schnittke war ein russisch-deutscher Komponist und Pianist.
Alfred Schnittke website: videos, photos, memories, sheetmusic and books.
