Schnittke
Americannoun
noun
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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."
From BBC • Mar. 14, 2025
It begins as a probing, superbly played, seemingly conventional performance, until it reaches an avant-garde new cadenza by Alfred Schnittke acts like a foreign agent determined to hack the whole concerto.
From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 14, 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
A few 20th-century works, among them a Shostakovich concerto and a Schnittke pastiche on Haydn and Mozart, are being plopped into some festival orchestra programs.
From New York Times • Jul. 30, 2014
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