The real legacy of Schnittke’s music is its multidimensional exploration of what musical truth in the 20th century might be, from chaotic polystylism to heartfelt spirituality All articles in this ...

Sunday, Composer Focus Concerts, a monthly series at the Lilypad in Cambridge, turns its attention to music by Russian composer Alfred Schnittke (1934-98), including Schnittke’s 1978 violin-and-piano ...

A DIRE need for better housing shaped Alfred Schnittke's marvellous music. He and his wife Irina were sharing a flat in Moscow with her parents when their son, Andrei, was born in February 1965. It ...

Composers over the centuries have utilized music written by their predecessors as building blocks in their own works, whether Brahms’s “Variations on a Theme by Haydn,” Mozart’s “Variations on a Theme ...

During Soviet times, avant-garde composer Alfred Schnittke fell out of favor from the Union of Soviet Composers. Now, due to his worldwide recognition, he is the one of the modern composers of whom ...

A great composer of the 20th century left us with one final artistic testament: Rest in Fortississimo... Deafening slience? A silent roar? Alfred Schnittke was a Soviet-German composer, who is known ...

Mind-blowing is one of those expressions best allowed out every five years at most. This quinquennial airing greets the UK premiere of Alfred Schnittke's extraordinary The History of D Johann Faustus, ...

Simply sign up to the Life & Arts myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. Imagine a phlegmatic Dutch audience at the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam, one of the world’s most prestigious concert ...

Alfred Schnittke's Penitential Psalms were written in 1988 for the 1,000th anniversary of the Christianisation of Russia. But the major reference point in these settings of anonymous 16th-century ...

Donald Macleod explores the strange, brilliant and occasionally nightmarish world of the Soviet composer Alfred Schnittke. The music of Alfred Schnittke (1934-1998) is like being lost in a hall of ...