Alfred Schnittke
Sound
Birthday
1934/11/24
Day of death
1998/08/03 (63 years old)
Gender
Male
Place of Birth
Engels, ASSR nemtsev Povolzhya, RSFSR, USSR [now Engelsskiy rayon, Saratovskaya oblast, Russia]
Also know as
Alfred Shnitke, Alfred Shnittke, Альфред Шнитке, Alfred Snitke, A. Shnitke, А. Шнитке
Biography
Alfred Garrievich Schnittke (24 November 1934 – 3 August 1998) was a Soviet composer. Among the most performed and recorded composers of late 20th-century classical music, 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 in [...] depth and detail."
Acting
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(1990) I Am a German Composer from Russia
as Self