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Alfred Schnittke

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Do you know that my very first experience as a composer was a 'Concerto for Accordion?'


— Alfred Schnittke


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For a solo work I need a definite idea. For the present I have none.


— Alfred Schnittke


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For almost thirty years I repeatedly saw one and the same dream: I would arrive in Vienna at long last. I would feel really happy, for I was returning to my serene childhood.


— Alfred Schnittke


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I am not facing the problem of emigration. I want my music to be acknowledged here first of all, in this country: after that, we shall see - perhaps the question will than become urgent.


— Alfred Schnittke


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I would wake up in Moscow or somewhere else, my heart beating fast, feeling bitter and helpless.


— Alfred Schnittke


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Some Schnittke scholars such as Gerard McBurney have argued that it is the late works that will ultimately be the most influential parts of Schnittke's output. 1 for violin and piano (1963; orchestrated 1968)
Dialogue for violoncello and 7 instruments (1965)
String Quartet No.

In the 1980s Schnittke's music began to become more widely known abroad with the publication of his Second (1980) and Third (1983) String Quartets and the String Trio (1985); the ballet Peer Gynt (1985–1987); the Third (1981) Fourth (1984) and Fifth (1988) Symphonies; and the Viola (1985) and 1st Cello (1985–1986) Concertos. As his health deteriorated Schnittke's music started to abandon much of the extroversion of his polystylism and retreated into a more withdrawn bleak style.

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