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 ...

ProMusica Chamber Orchestra will present Mozart & Schnittke at the Southern Theatre on Saturday, April 11, 2026, and Sunday, April 12, 2026, at 7 p.m. Learn more here!

Up until the early 1970s, Alfred Schnittke, who after Shostakovich took the next step in Russian music, coped with his times by rebellion, compliance and by extolling the crazy world he lived in. He ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Pardon my language but where the heck was everyone? It’s very possible that a potent double-shot of often gloomy Russian composers ...

Alfred Schnittke's music is defined by diversity. His symphonies lurch from modernist violence to quotations from Beethoven; his concertos contain everything from baroque pastiche to jazz solos; and ...

For the late Russian-German composer Alfred Schnittke, musical history was no nightmare to awaken from but a lovely dream that kept receding from his grasp the more he tried to recapture it. Like much ...

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 ...

Simply sign up to the Life & Arts myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. The brochure advertising the latest Schnittke festival asks: “Who was Alfred Schnittke?” A more pertinent question, ...

Will the real Schnittke please stand up? A composer of multifarious styles and sometimes joker, Schnittke seemed to enjoy hiding behind his many masks. As the successor to Shostakovich, he left ...

Pardon my language but where the heck was everyone? It’s very possible that a potent double-shot of often gloomy Russian composers — i.e. Alfred Schnittke and Dmitri Shostakovich — didn’t mesh with ...