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From: Vera Beljakova <>
Subject: Tribute to Schnittke
Date: Sat, 02 Oct 2004 20:33:47 +0200

Tribute to Schnittke
http://context.themoscowtimes.com/story/136656/

Schnittke was one of the great modern Russian composesrs,
http://www.lib.ndsu.nodak.edu/grhc/outreach/friends/schnittke4.html

Alfred Schnittke was born November 24, 1934 in the city of Engels on the
Volga River in an area that had been settled by Germans in the 18th
Century. He was born to a Volga German mother and a German-Jewish father
of Russian origin. (but with a German surname - vera b.m.) He began his
studies in music in Vienna right after the war. He then moved to Moscow
in 1948 and continued his training at the Moscow Conservatory where he
was appointed instructor in 1962. After 1990 Mr. Schnittke resided in
Hamburg maintaining a dual German-Russian citizenship. He is buried in
Moscow's Novodevichye Cemetery, a high honor in Russia.


Extracts:
<<Just four years after his death, Alfred Schnittke has joined Russia's
composing hall of fame.

By Raymond Stults
Published: October 1, 2004

Ten years ago this month, Moscow marked composer Alfred Schnittke's 60th
birthday with a truly exceptional festival, in retrospect one of the
major musical events of the 1990s. Four years later, Schnittke died
after a series of crippling strokes. But his music, an eclectic blend of
old and new, very much lives on, and seems likely to become the most
durable of any written by a Russian composer of his generation. From
Saturday to Oct. 20, Moscow honors Schnittke again with a festival of
eight concerts, this time on the 70th anniversary of his birth.

etc....>>

forwarded by Vera Beljakova-Miller

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