Schnittke

American  

[shnit-kuh] / ˈʃnɪt kə /

noun

1. Alfred, 1934–1998, Russian composer.

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Schnittke British  

/ ˈʃnɪtkə /

noun

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

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Example Sentences

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

From BBC • Mar. 14, 2025

“I would say a mix of Shostakovich, Rachmaninoff, Schnittke and Prokofiev,” Dupree said in an interview, describing the elements that Kapustin blends with the blues.

From New York Times • Aug. 24, 2021

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

Hence, too, the soundtrack—mostly jagged snatches of string music by Beethoven, Shostakovich, Schnittke, and others, scraping away any patches of contentment.

From The New Yorker • May 16, 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