Alfred Schnittke

✶November 24, 1934

†August 3, 1998

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About their life

Alfred Garrievich Schnittke was a Soviet and Russian 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."

Soviet and Russian composer (1934–1998)

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Biography from the article Alfred Schnittke on the English Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.