German-Russian composer Alfred Schnittke dies

AP Online | August 3, 1998 | Copyright

AP Online
08-03-1998
HAMBURG, Germany (AP) _ Alfred Schnittke, one of the former Soviet Union's most prolific composers whose works ranged from symphonies to movie themes, died today in Hamburg. He was 63.

Schnittke, the son of a Russian mother and a German-Jewish father, died at Hamburg's University Hospital, where had been admitted after suffering his fourth stroke over a period of many years, said his wife, Irina.

A creator of ``polystylism,'' or mixture of musical forms, he was spurned in his homeland at the beginning of his career, but by the 1980s had won over Soviet cultural ...

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