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Alfred Garrievich Schnittke[n 1] (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.
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.”
May 14, 2015 · Alfred Schnittke's incredible Concerto Grosso no. 1 played by Gidon Kremer, Tatiana Grindenko, and the Kremerata Baltica, live in Moscow in 2004, on the 70th anniversary of Schnittke's...
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 website: videos, photos, memories, sheetmusic and books.
The Concerto Grosso No. 1 was the first of six concerti grossi by Soviet composer Alfred Schnittke. It was written in 1976–1977 at the request of Gidon Kremer and Tatiana Grindenko who were also the violin soloists at its premiere on 21 March 1977 in Leningrad together with Yuri Smirnov on keyboard instruments and the Leningrad ...
Alfred Schnittke died in Hamburg on 3 August 1998 following a fifth stroke. His funeral in Moscow on 10 August 1998, attended by thousands of people, was a tribute of honor and admiration to the greatest Russian composer since Shostakovich. For many critics, “Schnittke was the last genius of the 20th Century.
The German-Russian composer Alfred Schnittke is without doubt one of the 20th century’s most important composers. His works have been a regular feature in concert programmes for decades – and his name also regularly comes up in the worlds of film music, music theatre and even ballet.
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