Up until the early 1970s, Alfred Schnittke, who after Shostakovich took the next step in Russian music, coped with his times by rebellion, compliance and by extolling the crazy world he lived in. He ...

Sunday, Composer Focus Concerts, a monthly series at the Lilypad in Cambridge, turns its attention to music by Russian composer Alfred Schnittke (1934-98), including Schnittke’s 1978 violin-and-piano ...

Der deutsch-russische Komponist Alfred Schnittke zählt ohne Frage zu den bedeutendsten Komponisten der Gegenwart. Mancher bezeichnet ihn als "Gratwanderer zwischen Ost und West" - und das spiegelt ...

The real legacy of Schnittke’s music is its multidimensional exploration of what musical truth in the 20th century might be, from chaotic polystylism to heartfelt spirituality All articles in this ...

Pardon my language but where the heck was everyone? It’s very possible that a potent double-shot of often gloomy Russian composers — i.e. Alfred Schnittke and Dmitri Shostakovich — didn’t mesh with ...

Will the real Schnittke please stand up? A composer of multifarious styles and sometimes joker, Schnittke seemed to enjoy hiding behind his many masks. As the successor to Shostakovich, he left ...

Simply sign up to the Life & Arts myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. The brochure advertising the latest Schnittke festival asks: “Who was Alfred Schnittke?” A more pertinent question, ...

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The first time I heard Alfred Schnittke’s music was at children’s music school: it was his Suite in the Old Style, a fairly easy piece to play and understand, notably the Minuet. I remember that one ...

Alfred Schnittke's complete piano music offers a shortcut straight to the heart of the prolific Soviet composer who died too young in 1998 aged 63. From the terse, early serial works such as Prelude ...