Alfred Garrievich Schnittke (Russian: Альфред Гарриевич Шнитке; born November 24, 1934 in Engels, USSR; died August 3, 1998 in Hamburg) was a soviet composer, pianist, theoretician of music and educator. His music is derived from various traditions: Russian (Dmitri Shostakovich, Igor Stravinsky), Germanic (Gustav Mahler, Alban Berg), and American (Charles Ives).
On his mother’s side he was of Volga German and Roman Catholic extraction, on his father’s side he was German-Jewish.
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Alfred Schnittke
Alfred Garrievich Schnittke (Russian: Альфред Гарриевич Шнитке; born November 24, 1934 in Engels, USSR; died August 3, 1998 in Hamburg) was a soviet composer, pianist, theoretician of music and educator. His music is derived from various traditions: Russian (Dmitri Shostakovich, Igor Stravinsky), Germanic (Gustav Mahler, Alban Berg), and American (Charles Ives).
On his mother’s side he was of Volga German and Roman Catholic extraction, on his father’s side he was German-Jewish.
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calibration II
i dont know how i got to this point, but i was just lost in the meaning of music and trying to find a way to express something and then i created this in complete disregard for "musicality". i wrote a score for two pianos that i transferred to midi using a glockenspiel-type sound. that is then drenched in a shower of noise overlayed with an improvisatory percussive performance of hitting a tuning fork against my bedroom table.more
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