Schnittke
Americannoun
noun
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Schnittke praised the work as "perhaps the most important violin concerto of the 20th Century".
From BBC • Mar. 14, 2025
She was encouraged and mentored by the likes of Schnittke and Shostakovich, without sounding like either one.
From New York Times • Jan. 17, 2020
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
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