Schnittke
Americannoun
noun
Example Sentences
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She was one of three legendary, avant-garde Russian composers to be disgraced, along with Schnittke and Denisov.
From BBC ● Mar. 14, 2025
American audiences have long embraced her Soviet peers, like Shostakovich, Prokofiev and Schnittke, but Ustvolskaya is hardly played in this country.
From New York Times ● Sep. 27, 2019
Off-kilter Baroque stylings recall Stravinsky and anticipate the meta-musical games of Alfred Schnittke.
From The New Yorker ● Apr. 10, 2017
Music is yet another obsession, as anyone who listened to the marvellously esoteric playlist he brought along to the BBC’s Desert Island Discs – Gil Scot-Heron to Schnittke, Frank Zappa to Shostakovich – can testify.
From The Guardian ● Sep. 20, 2016
In the 1960s as the unlikely grande dame of Russian pianists, she made contact with the avant-garde likes of Pierre Boulez and Karlheinz Stockhausen and championed young Soviet rebels such as Alfred Schnittke.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 1, 2016
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