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- Birth nameAlfred Garrievich Shnitke
- Born in Engels, an autonomous region for ethnic Germans on the Volga river, Alfred Schnittke trained as a pianist in Vienna, Austria, where his father served as a correspondent for a Soviet newspaper. In 1953, he moved on to the Moscow Conservatory and served on its faculty from 1962 to 1972. Schnittke wrote over 60 film scores between 1961 and 1984, but they were in popular styles dramatically different from his serious music, which was influenced strongly by Mahler, Ives, and Pousseur and was usually atonal. His music is often despairing, with surprising witty touches, including musical quotations from well-known works.- IMDb Mini Biography By: <anthony-adam@tamu.edu>
- SpouseIrina ?(? - August 3, 1998) (his death)
- He was the father of Russian composer and rock musician Andrey Shnitke.
- I see no conflict in being both serious and comic in the same piece. In fact, I cannot have one without the other.
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