COMPOSER

Alfred Schnittke

1934 - 1998

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Alfred Garrievich Schnittke (24 November 1934 – 3 August 1998) 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 contemporary man in [...] depth and detail." Schnittke's early music shows the strong influence of Dmitri Shostakovich. He developed a polystylistic technique in works such as the epic Symphony No. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Alfred Schnittke has received more than 607,017 page views. His biography is available in 38 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 37 in 2019). Alfred Schnittke is the 244th most popular composer (down from 224th in 2019), the 347th most popular biography from Russia (down from 312th in 2019) and the 13th most popular Russian Composer.

Alfred Schnittke was a Russian composer who is most famous for his work in the avant-garde style of music.

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  • 610k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 61.80

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 38

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.97

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.51

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among COMPOSERS

Among composers, Alfred Schnittke ranks 244 out of 1,451. Before him are Charles-Marie Widor, Johan Halvorsen, Johann Adolph Hasse, Henryk Górecki, Duchess Maria Antonia of Bavaria, and Albert Roussel. After him are Francesco Durante, Carl Ditters von Dittersdorf, Otto Nicolai, Pierre Schaeffer, Jacques Ibert, and Ambroise Thomas.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1934, Alfred Schnittke ranks 59. Before him are Bengt I. Samuelsson, Bettino Craxi, John Surtees, Giovanni Battista Re, Jan Švankmajer, and Rudolf Schuster. After him are Mohamed Farrah Aidid, Carlo Rubbia, Heng Samrin, Stanislav Shushkevich, Marshall Rosenberg, and Édith Cresson. Among people deceased in 1998, Alfred Schnittke ranks 27. Before him are Nizar Qabbani, Julien Green, Vasily Arkhipov, Otto Kretschmer, Allan MacLeod Cormack, and Linda McCartney. After him are George H. Hitchings, André Weil, Lúcio Costa, Kenichi Fukui, Galina Ulanova, and Bob Kane.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Alfred Schnittke ranks 347 out of 3,761. Before him are Andriyan Nikolayev (1929), Genndy Tartakovsky (1970), Anatoly Sobchak (1937), Anna Dostoevskaya (1846), The French Angel (1903), and Nikolai Trubetzkoy (1890). After him are Otto Nicolai (1810), Grigory Orlov (1734), Valentin Serov (1865), Grand Duchess Xenia Alexandrovna of Russia (1875), Alexander Andreyevich Ivanov (1806), and Nikolai Rubinstein (1835).

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Among COMPOSERS In Russia

Among composers born in Russia, Alfred Schnittke ranks 13. Before him are Alexander Scriabin (1871), Alexander Borodin (1833), Mily Balakirev (1837), Mikhail Glinka (1804), Dmitry Kabalevsky (1904), and Sofia Gubaidulina (1931). After him are Otto Nicolai (1810), Irving Berlin (1888), Alexander Vasilyevich Alexandrov (1883), Anton Arensky (1861), Sergei Taneyev (1856), and Rodion Shchedrin (1932).

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