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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 contemporary man ...
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 ...
Madrigal in Memoriam Oleg Kagan, second version for cello solo (1990) Three Fragments for harpsichord (1990) Five Aphorisms for piano (1990) Piano Sonata No. 2 (1990) Cadenzas to Mozart's Piano Concerto in B ♭ major, K. 39 (first and third movements) (1990) For the 90th Birthday of Alfred Schlee for viola solo (1991)
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.”
Music for Piano and Chamber Orchestra (1964) (1. Variazioni; 2. Cantus firmus; 3. Cadenza; 4. Basso ostinato) Concerto for Piano and String Orchestra (1979) Concerto for Piano four hands and Chamber Orchestra (1988) "to Viktoria Postnikova and Irina Schnittke".
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.
