Schnittke Alfred Garrievich

Main article: History of music in Russia

Biography

Alfred Schnittke was born on November 24, 1934 in Engels, Autonomous Socialist Soviet Republic of Volga Germans, USSR.

Schnittke A.G. Portrait. 1990s Photo: Bazhenov V.P. Bakhrushinsky Museum

Composer Alfred Schnittke, 1995 Photo: S.S. Bermeniev Bakhrushinsky Museum

Schnittke died on August 3, 1998 at the age of 63 in Hamburg, Germany.

Compositions for the Theatre

Alfred Schnittke's first steps in collaboration with the theater were music for productions at the Mossovet Theater and the Central Children's Theater.

Since the 1970s, the composer's collaboration with Yuri Lyubimov began. For the Taganka Theater, Schnittke wrote the scores for the performances:

• "Turandot or Congress of the Cloisters,"
• " Feast during the plague" and
• "Zhivago," as well as
• for the famous production of "Revision Tale" based on the works of Gogol.

Since then, the composer's creative arsenal has been constantly replenished. So, in 1981, the Gogol Suite appeared - an outstanding work based on the music written by the composer in 1975 for the play The Revision Tale.

For the Bolshoi Theater, he created the ballet "Sketches" on the plots of Nikolai Gogol. Another important stage in the composer's career was his collaboration with choreographer John Neumeier, who acted as choreographer of the ballet "Per Gynt" based on the drama by Henrik Ibsen.

Neumeier D. and Schnittke A.G. 1980s. Bahrushinsky Museum