Alfred Schnittke, German-Russian journalist and composer (died 1998)

Alfred Schnittke

Soviet-born Russian composer (1934–1998)

Alfred Garrievich Schnittke was a 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…