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, 1989, Moscow]]Alfred Garyevich Schnittke (, November 24, 1934 Engels -
August 3, 1998 Hamburg) was a Russian and Soviet composer.
Biography Schnittke's father was born in Frankfurt to a Jewish family of
Russian origin who had moved to the USSR in 1926, and his mother was a
Volga German born in Russia.
Alfred Schnittke was born in Engels in the Volga-German Republic of the
RSFSR, Soviet Union. He began his musical education in 1946 in Vienna where
his father, a journalist and translator, had been posted. In 1948 the
family moved to Moscow. He completed his graduate work in composition at
the Moscow Conservatory in 1961 and taught there from 1962 to 1972.
Thereafter he supported himself mainly by composing film scores. Schnittke
converted to Christianity and possessed deeply held mystic beliefs which
influenced his music. In the 1960s he studied at the Moscow Conservatory
where, among his teachers in composition, was Evgeny Golubev.
Schnittke: Concertos for Piano / Cello
Alfred Schnittke: Concerto Grosso No. 4 - Symphony No. 5 / Pianissimo for Large Orchestra
Schnittke: Quasi Una Sonata, etc / Valery Gradow, Inna Heifetz
Alfred Schnittke: String Quartets Nos. 1-3
Oleg Volkov Plays Shostakovich & Schnittke
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