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

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

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

Its output also encompassed Berg, Bartok and Webern — but, sadly, no Schoenberg — as well as more contemporary works, such as premieres by Rihm, Schnittke and Berio.

From New York Times • Jun. 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