Classical: The triumph of the great outsider Alfred Schnittke's reputation has never been higher. Martin Anderson looks forward to this weekend's ambitious retrospective of his work

The Independent - London | January 12, 2001| | Copyright

When Alfred Schnittke died, in August 1998, the victim of a series of crippling strokes, he had become the most celebrated Russian composer since Shostakovich - his status attained despite the unrelenting efforts of the Soviet authorities, which for years refused to let him out of the country. But his music was so individual, so strong, that it made its own way around the world, initially without the encouraging presence of its creator.

One might have expected each new work to help to delineate Schnittke's creative character, but to begin with, they seemed more often than not to muddy the ...

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