Alfred Schnittke
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Alfred Garrievich Schnittke was a Soviet and Russian composer. Among the most performed and recorded composers of late 20th-century classical music, he is described by musicologist Ivan Moody as a "co
Schnittke in 1989
Schnittke's gravestone, showing a fermata over a whole rest marked fff
Portrait of Alfred Schnittke by Reginald Gray (1972)
Engels, Saratov Oblast
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Engels is a city in Saratov Oblast, Russia. An important port located on the Volga River across from Saratov, the administrative center of the oblast, it is connected to it with a bridge. It is the se
Alfred Schnittke
…grandmother, Tea Abramovna Katz (1889–1970), was a philologist, translator, and editor of German-language literature. Alfred Schnittke was born in Engels in the Volga German ASSR of the Russian SFSR. He began his musical education in 1946 in Vienna, where his father had been posted. It was in Vienna…
A monument to the coat of arms of Engels