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 ...

Alfred Schnittke's music is defined by diversity. His symphonies lurch from modernist violence to quotations from Beethoven; his concertos contain everything from baroque pastiche to jazz solos; and ...

A DIRE need for better housing shaped Alfred Schnittke's marvellous music. He and his wife Irina were sharing a flat in Moscow with her parents when their son, Andrei, was born in February 1965. It ...

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, ...

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 Concerto for Choir is Alfred Schnittke’s most explicit rapprochement with an Orthodoxy that he embraced fully just months before his death, and he would surely have been surprised that, almost ...

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 ...

For the late Russian-German composer Alfred Schnittke, musical history was no nightmare to awaken from but a lovely dream that kept receding from his grasp the more he tried to recapture it. Like much ...