On a visit to Moscow to see his grandparents in 1941, 6-year-old Alfred Schnittke registered at a music school but never did receive an education there. War broke out in June of that year, when ...

Simply sign up to the Life & Arts myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. Imagine a phlegmatic Dutch audience at the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam, one of the world’s most prestigious concert ...

A great composer of the 20th century left us with one final artistic testament: Rest in Fortississimo... Deafening slience? A silent roar? Alfred Schnittke was a Soviet-German composer, who is known ...

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 ...

The young chamber ensemble talks about and plays music by Alfred Schnittke. Houston New Arts Movement rounds out its “Transformation Trilogy” season with its third offering, Surpassing Schnittke, ...

Alfred Schnittke, 63, one of Russia’s greatest post-war composers whose work ranged from film scores to opera, has died in Hamburg, Germany, the Moscow branch of the composers union said on Monday.

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 ...

Composers over the centuries have utilized music written by their predecessors as building blocks in their own works, whether Brahms’s “Variations on a Theme by Haydn,” Mozart’s “Variations on a Theme ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract With its extremely heterogeneous thematic material of open citations and hidden monograms of Lasso, Beethoven, and Shostakovich, Schnittke's ...

Alfred Schnittke's Penitential Psalms were written in 1988 for the 1,000th anniversary of the Christianisation of Russia. But the major reference point in these settings of anonymous 16th-century ...