Born: Engels, near Saratov
November 24, 1934
Died: Hamburg, Germany
August 3, 1998
Russian professor
Born into a Jewish family of Russian origin, Schnittke began piano lessons in 1946 in Vienna, where his journalist father was posted. In 1948 the whole family moved to Moscow, where Schnittke continued his piano studies and attended a specialized music school from which he received a diploma in choral conducting.
From 1953 to 1958 Schnittke studied at the Moscow Conservatory, where his teachers included Yevgeny Golubev for counterpoint and composition and Nikolai Rakov for orchestration. He completed his graduate studies in 1961 under Golubev, the same year that he joined the Composers Union. From 1962 to 1972 he taught music theory and instrumentation at the Moscow Conservatory. Subsequent to this he was able to make his living entirely by composing film scores, while indulging serial methods in his classical compositions. By the mid-1980's his music had become quite familiar to the Russian movie-going public through his film scores, more than sixty of them altogether.
During the 1980's Schnittke was honored with membership in a number of musical academies, including the Bayerische Akademie in 1986 and the Swedish Royal Academy in 1987. He received numerous awards and honors for his compositions, including the Slava-Gloria-Prize in Moscow in 1998, the Austrian State Prize in 1991, and Japan's Imperial Prize in 1992. Having inherited the musical and moral mantle of Shostakovitch, he was among the first of Soviet composers to experiment with electronic and serial techniques in the 1960's, though these gave way later to a synthesis of historical compositional methods which he termed "polystylistic".
In 1985 Schnittke suffered the first of a series of serious strokes, which left him physically frail but intellectually undeterred. His creativity, imagination and productivity remained intact. Beginning in 1989 he lived in Hamburg, Germany, where he taught at the Hamburg Conservatory. He died after suffering a final stroke in Hamburg in 1998.
Schnittke composed prolifically in a wide range of genres and styles. Included among his works are nine symphonies, six concerti grossi, four violin concertos two cello concertos, concertos for piano and a triple concerto for violin, viola and cello, as well as four string quartets and a large number other chamber pieces, ballet scores, operas, choral and vocal works.
quote:Schnittke.. geheel onbekend bij mij hoor.
Op zaterdag 29 december 2001 23:53 schreef Seborik het volgende:
geboren als rus... maar stierf in duitsland
[Dit bericht is gewijzigd door Gellius op 29-12-2001 23:59]
Born: Leipzig, May 22, 1813
Died: Venice, February 13, 1883
Occupation: poet, author
Nationality: German
NEE
quote:dit maakt het heldendom zeer dubieus
Op zondag 30 december 2001 00:27 schreef Gellius het volgende:[..]
Pornografie-zaak.
