Schnittke

[shnit-kuh]

noun

1. Alfred, 1934–1998, Russian composer.

Schnittke

/ ˈʃnɪtkə /

noun

1. Alfred. 1934–98, Russian composer: his works include four symphonies, four violin concertos, choral, chamber, and film music

Example Sentences

She was one of three legendary, avant-garde Russian composers to be disgraced, along with Schnittke and Denisov.

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"Edison Denisov was a classicist with very subtle yet strict logic. Alfred Schnittke was a romantic. My style could be best described as archaic."

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Schnittke praised the work as "perhaps the most important violin concerto of the 20th Century".

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They can be a matter of direct quotation, as when Schnittke uses the Grosse Fuge in his Third Quartet, or of something as clear as Bartók beginning his First with a slow canon echoing the methods of Beethoven’s Op.

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Initially grouped with her fellow late Soviet-era composers Alfred Schnittke and Edison Denisov, Gubaidulina never settled on a definitive or identifiable style.

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