Alfred Schnittke, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Alfred Schnittke

Soviet composer

Date of Birth: 24-Nov-1934

Place of Birth: Engels, Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic, Russia

Date of Death: 03-Aug-1998

Profession: composer, pianist, musician, film score composer, university teacher, music pedagogue

Nationality: Russia, Germany

Zodiac Sign: Sagittarius

Alfred Garrievich Schnittke (Russian: ??????´? ??´??????? ???´???, Alfred Garriyevich Shnitke; 24 November 1934 – 3 August 1998) was a Soviet and German composer.
Schnittke's early music shows the strong influence of Dmitri Shostakovich.
He developed a polystylistic technique in works such as the epic Symphony No.
1 (1969–1972) and his first concerto grosso (1977).
In the 1980s, Schnittke's music began to become more widely known abroad with the publication of his second (1980) and third (1983) string quartets and the String Trio (1985); the ballet Peer Gynt (1985–1987); the third (1981), fourth (1984), and fifth (1988) symphonies; and the viola concerto (1985) and first cello concerto (1985–1986).
As his health deteriorated, Schnittke's music started to abandon much of the extroversion of his polystylism and retreated into a more withdrawn, bleak style.