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	Alfred Schnittke - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Alfred Garyevich Schnittke (Russian: Альфре́д Га́рриевич Шни́тке, November 24, 1934 – August 3, 1998) was a Russian-German Jewish composer.
		Alfred Schnittke was born in Engels in the Volga-German Republic of the RSFSR, Soviet Union.
		Schnittke was often the target of the Soviet bureaucracy.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Alfred_Schnittke (655 words)

	alfred schnittke (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Alfred Schnittke was born on 24 November 1934 in Engels, on the Volga River, in the Soviet Union.
		Schnittke began his musical education in 1946 in Vienna where his father, a journalist and translator, had been posted.
		Schnittke composed 9 symphonies, 6 concerti grossi, 4 violin concertos, 2 cello concertos, a viola concerto, concertos for piano and a triple concerto for violin, viola and cello, as well as 4 string quartets and much other chamber music, ballet scores, choral and vocal works.
	www.alfredschnittke.com (414 words)

	BMOP :: Alfred Schnittke
		In 1962, Schnittke was appointed instructor in instrumentation at the Moscow Conservatory, a post that he held until 1972.
		Schnittke composed 9 symphonies, 6 concerti grossi, 4 violin concertos, 2 cello concertos, concertos for piano and a triple concerto for violin, viola and cello, as well as 4 string quartets and much other chamber music, ballet scores, choral and vocal works.
		Schnittke has been the recipient of numerous awards and honors, including Austrian State Prize in 1991, Japan's Imperial Prize in 1992, and, most recently the Slava-Gloria-Prize in Moscow in June 1998; his music has been celebrated with retrospectives and major festivals worldwide.
	www.bmop.org /musicians/composer_bio.aspx?cid=135 (532 words)

	Alfred Schnittke (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Alfred Schnittke, who died August 3 in Hamburg at the age of 64 after years of poor health, was the most celebrated Russian composer of our time.
		The difficulty with Schnittke is not that some of his pieces are long, serious, and spiritually probing whereas others are full of parodies and jokes -- it's that many are both.
		Rounding out the disc is one of Schnittke's greatest chamber works, the ghostly Piano Quintet, which he composed in memory of his mother.
	www.bostonphoenix.com /archive/music/98/08/20/REX/ALFRED_SCHNITTKE.html (534 words)

	Composer (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Alfred Schnittke's work has won wide acceptance in recent years, particularly since political changes in the former Soviet Union.
		Schnittke continued to work after suffering the first of a series of serious strokes in 1985.
		Schnittke's chamber music includes string quartets and sonatas for violin and for cello and piano, with a Sonata for violin and piano in the Olden Style and a Suite in the Old Style for the same instruments.
	www.naxos.com /composer/btm.asp?fullname=Schnittke,+Alfred (201 words)

	Alfred Schnittke
		In May 1981, Schnittke was elected a member of the Berlin Academy of Arts, in July 1986 an honorary member of the Swiss Royal Academy, and in 1989 a member of the Hamburg Academy.
		Alfred Schnittke was born on November 24th, 1934, in Engels, a small town on the banks of the Volga river.
		Schnittke wrote music for several dozens movies, including “You and I” and “Ascent” (director L. Shepit’ko), “Commissar” (director A. Askoldov), “The Crew” and “The Tale of Wanders” (director A. Mitta), “Fall” (director A. Smirnov), “Yet I still believe” (director A. Romm), “Agony” and “Sport, sport, sport” (director E. Klimov), and “Little Tragedies”(director M. Schweitzer).
	www.rarecds.us /Cataloge/Schnittke/list.htm (475 words)

	Schnittke (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Schnittke, later noted that this usage of the 12-tone technique in a ‘negative’ way was the main defect of the work.
		Schnittke’s ‘Quasi una Sonata’, on the contrary, torn apart by its contradictions in such a way that it is unable to become a sonata.
		Schnittke explains: “At the end of the Second Violin Sonata, when the violin plays its sharp zigzags, it is possible to hear the echoes in depths of the piano, on the background of a dying piano cluster.
	www.smirnov.fsworld.co.uk /Schnittke.html (5811 words)

	Music under Soviet rule: Schnittke book
		For example, Ivashkin shows that Schnittke's enormous output of film music during the 1960s and 1970s (around sixty scores), far from peripheral to his style, as in the case of Shostakovich, was the most important factor in its genesis, accounting for its non-developmental discontinuities, its ironic-subversive juxtapositions, and its "polystylistic" multiplicity of idioms.
		That Schnittke imagines the liberal intelligentsia's resistance to have lacked "perspective" in the heyday of Prokofiev and Shostakovich testifies to the fundamental difference between the older generation's experience of Communism and the way it was perceived by those - Denisov (b.
		Schnittke did not attend Prokofiev's funeral - it was almost impossible to go, given that crowds of people were flocking to Stalin's funeral (indeed, many were killed in the crush).
	www.siue.edu /~aho/musov/review/schnitrev.html (2270 words)

	Peter Hoar: Obituary: Alfred Schnittke
		Alfred Schnittke died after a long illness on the 3rd of August 1998.
		Schnittke himself moved into darker and more complex realms throughout the 1980s as his declining health and the death of his mother focussed his mind on mortality.
		Schnittke’s music is by turns dark, funny, ironic, terrifying, trite, moving, simple, complex – and sometimes all of these at once.
	www.thepander.co.nz /culture/phoar5.php?printer_friendly=false (749 words)

	Bio of Alfred Schnittke
		Schnittke often views the old forms with fond humor, s/he might think that the composer's implication is that the form and style of the Baroque Concerto Grosso is dead - and therefore an obsolte - one.
		Schnittke's music is known for it powerful impact, attracting some, alienating others, but rarely leaving the listener neutral.
		Schnittke's piece is not, however, imitation Mahler, but an embodiment of the great Austrian's aesthetic, using his thematic material.
	www-personal.umich.edu /~cyoungk/schnittkebio.htm (2799 words)

	Alfred Schnittke News (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The American premire on 24 March 1988 of Russian-born composer Alfred Schnittke's first symphony was held during the physically frail Schnittke's first visit to the USA.
		A nearly three-week festival commemorating the 70th anniversary of composer Alfred Schnittke's birth has given ample proof -- at least at the five of its eight concerts that I attended -- of Schnittke's...
		Ten years ago this month, Moscow marked composer Alfred Schnittke's 60th birthday with a truly exceptional festival, in retrospect one of the major musical events of the 1990s.
	rss.topix.net /who/alfred-schnittke (178 words)

	Alfred Schnittke
		Alfred Garyevich Schnittke (Russian: Àëüôðåä Øíèòêå, November 24, 1934 — August 3, 1998) was a German- Russian composer of classical music.
		Alfred Schnittke was born in Engels in the Soviet Union.
		In a number of pieces, Schnittke quotes or parodies other composers, and this combined with his 'polystylism' (using a mixture of musical styles past and present in close proximity) has resulted in his work being seen as one musical manifestation of postmodernism.
	www.compositiontoday.com /composers/2.asp (347 words)

	The Classical Free-Reed, Inc.: FRIEDRICH LIPS-ALFRED SCHNITTKE
		Alfred Schnittke was born in 1934 in Engels, in the former German Volga Republic of the Soviet Union, an area of Russia settled by German emigre in the 18th century.
		Alfred Schnittke, genius of the 20th century, did not write a single work for the bayan, but some creative contacts with him, which unfortunately did not bear fruit, remain anchored in my memory.
		Alfred Schnittke often stressed that two cultures exerted a great influence on his view of the world: the Russian and the German.
	www.ksanti.net /free-reed/essays/schnittke.html (3776 words)

	BBC News \| Europe \| Russian composer Alfred Schnittke dies
		One of Russia's most popular post-war composers, Alfred Schnittke, has died in Germany at the age of 64.
		Schnittke was born in the central Russian town of Engels.
		Schnittke had been living in Hamburg since 1990, but there are plans to return his body to Russia.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/world/europe/144527.stm (360 words)

	Molinari Quartet - Repertoire: Alfred Schnittke (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The Russian composer Alfred Schnittke developed throughout his career a very original and personal style.
		In his third quartet, Schnittke uses three quotations of very different styles and periods, each having in common the same musical material and pitchs.
		The outcome of the quartet is heard in the finale where the music has developed into the modern and original musical language of Alfred Schnittke.
	www.quatuormolinari.qc.ca /schnita.html (196 words)

	Alfred Schnittke - Chronology (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Schnittke is unable to attend Prokofiev’s funeral because millions are thronging Red Square to say farewell to their dictator.
		Schnittke marries Galina Koltsina, a musicologist and fellow student at the Conservatory.
		Schnittke is elected to the Presidium of the Union of Soviet Composers and also to membership in the Academy of Arts.
	www.expergo.org /schnittke/chronology.html (7695 words)

	Amazon.com: Alfred Schnittke (20th-Century Composers): Books: Alexander Ivashkin (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		This entry in Phaidon Press' biographies of 20th century composers describes the life and work of Alfred Schnittke, the great Russian postmodernist, and is written by noted Russian cellist and friend of the composer Alexander Ivashkin.
		However, because Schnittke's last years were fraught with ill health, there is a general supposition that his career had ended.
		Schnittke was far from being the most consistent composer of the post-war period, but Ivashkin seems very loath to make critical remarks about Schnittke's compositions--even when such criticism seems (at least to me) to be entirely merited.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0714831697?v=glance (1996 words)

	The Music of ALFRED SCHNITTKE
		Alfred Schnittke was the leading figure of the Soviet post-war avant-garde and remains a prominent composer of international acclaim.
		Schnittke's Sonata for Violin and Piano, No. 2 (1968) was his first experiment into polystylism and contains harp musical contrasts and collisions of distant, even polar, styles and ideas.
		As one would expect from its title, central to Schnittke's A Paganini for Violin (1982) are excerpts from Nicolo Paganini's violin music, namely the Caprices.
	www.eroica.com /phoenix/jdt150.html (439 words)

	Alfred Schnittke
		Born of German decent on November 24, 1934, in Engels, on the Volga River, he began his musical training on the piano in 1946 in Vienna where his father worked for two years as a correspondent for a German-language Soviet newspaper.
		In 1948 the family moved to Moscow, where Schnittke continued his musical training, receiving a diploma in choral conducting.
		As there comprised the years of the "Krushchev Thaw," which ended an almost 30-year period of cultural isolation, Schnittke was exposed to the new techniques and experimentation of the Western avant-garde.
	www.eroica.com /phoenix/jdt150-as.html (427 words)

	Alfred Schnittke - Works
		Schnittke regarded the Pekarski interpretation, as it was performed in Moscow, as the final version.
		Jointly composed by Alfred Schnittke, Vyacheslav Artiomov, Sofia Gubaidulina and Viktor Suslin)
		Historia von D. Johann Fausten, opera in 3 acts, a prologue and an epilogue by Jörg Morgener and Alfred Schnittke based on the likenamed book published by Johann Spies in 1587 (in German, the third acr also in a Russian version by Victor Schnittke).
	www.expergo.org /schnittke/works.htm (3855 words)

	Amazon.com: Schnittke: Symphony No. 1: Music: Alfred Schnittke,Gennady Rozhdestvensky,Russian State Symphony ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Alfred Schnittke's First Symphony is one of the most extraordinary works to have come out of Soviet music.
		Written between 1969 and 1972 this symphony--or unsymphony as the composer originally intended to call it--attempts to sum up the whole of the world around the composer in a frenetic collage.
		Of all the pieces written for orchestra, none equal Alfred Schnittke's "Symphony No. 1." It was this piece by Schnittke that I happened to hear on a public radio station.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B000000AY5?v=glance (1262 words)

	Composer Page - Alfred Schnittke
		Alfred Schnittke: 'Sur une étoile', from Three Madrigals [3'18]
		Both Gerhardt and Osborne are noted especially for their poetic insights and whenever the music turns introspective here they cast a magic spell so as to have one hanging on to their every note' (Classic FM Magazine)
		Schnittke: Concerto for Mixed Chorus - 'Sej trud, shto natchinal ja s upavan' jem' (Complete this work which I began) [5'30]
	www.hyperion-records.co.uk /composer_page.asp?name=schnittke (167 words)

	Alfred Schnittke - Classical music composer (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Alfred Schnittke: Concerto Grosso No. 4 & Symphony No. 5 By Alfred Schnittke.
		Alfred Schnittke - Concerto Grosso For Two Violins, Harpsichord (also Piano) and String Orchestra Study Score.
		(Alfred Schnittke, compositor de música; parte 1)(TA: Alfred Schnittke, music composer; part 1) : An article from: Proceso
	www.classical-composers.org /cgi-bin/ccd.cgi?comp=schnittk (767 words)

	Sheet Music Plus - Alfred Schnittke - Concerto Grosso (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Schnittke's six-movement Concerto Grosso was premiered in Leningrad on March 21, 1977.
		The work is inspired by Baroque forms and style.
		Alfred Schnittke, born in 1934, is one of the most often performed of contemporary Russian composers.
	www.sheetmusicplus.com /a/item.html?item=4813244&id=50330 (65 words)

	Schnittke, Alfred (1934-1998) Classical Compositions and Alfred Schnittke (1934-1998) classical music sheets. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Schnittke, Alfred (1934-1998) Classical Compositions and Alfred Schnittke (1934-1998) classical music sheets.
		SCHNITTKE: Concerto Grosso I / Oboe and Harp Concerto / Piano Concerto
		SCHNITTKE: Piano Quintet / String Trio / Piano Quartet / Canon
	www.naxos.com /composerinfo/928.htm (483 words)

	Find in a Library: Seeking the soul : the music of Alfred Schnittke.
		Find in a Library: Seeking the soul : the music of Alfred Schnittke.
		Seeking the soul : the music of Alfred Schnittke.
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	worldcatlibraries.org /wcpa/ow/c90efc24d3bbac2ba19afeb4da09e526.html (84 words)

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