Alfred Schnittke. (composer)(Brief Article)(Obituary)

The Economist (US) | August 15, 1998 | Copyright

A DIRE need for better housing shaped Alfred Schnittke's marvellous music. He and his wife Irina were sharing a flat in Moscow with her parents when their son, Andrei, was born in February 1965. It was hard enough for Alfred to write music when his small study was partitioned to provide a nursery for the baby. It became next to impossible when his father-in-law insisted on watching ice-hockey on television in the same room. The young Schnittke family just had to have a bigger flat.

Others had secured one by becoming official composers, but this avenue was closed to Mr ...

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