Alfred Schnittke
Alfred Snitke
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Born in Engels to a German-Jewish family, he began studying music in Vienna in 1946 before the family settled in Moscow, where he completed a composition degree at the Moscow Conservatory in 1961 and taught there for a decade. His early output reflected Shostakovich’s influence, but he soon forged a distinctive polystylistic language that mixed disparate historical and popular idioms, first eviden…
Biography written by WatchMoods, based on public sources