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Died aged 63
Also known asAlfred Shnitke, Alfred Shnittke, Alfred Snitke, A. Shnitke, А. ШниткеGenderMaleNationalitySoviet UnionBorn24/11/1934Born inEngels, ASSR nemtsev Povolzhya, RSFSR, USSR [now Engelsskiy rayon, Saratovskaya oblast, Russia]Died03/08/1998 (aged 63)Died inHamburgCausestrokeWikidataQ158078 ↗Buried atNovodevichy CemeteryTMDb#1092911 ↗

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 "composer who was concerned in his music to depict the moral and spiritual struggles of contemporary man in [...] depth and detail."

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1990I Am a German Composer from RussiaMovieSelf56