For the Concerto for piano and string orchestra by Alfred Schnittke, properly interpreted

Alfred Schnittke Garrievitch, whose father came from a Jewish family from Russia, was born in Frankfurt and settled in the Soviet Union in 1926, and whose mother was a Volga German, was born in 1934 in Engels , Saratov Region, USSR (Russia). Alfred Schnittke began his musical studies in Vienna in 1946 where his father, journalist and translator, was then in office, but in 1948 his family moved to Moscow, where Schnittke completed his composition studies at the Tchaikovsky Conservatory in Moscow in 1961, and where he had particularly as teachers Rakov Nikolai (1908-1990) and Yevgeny Golubev (1910-1988). Initially, Schnittke's music was influenced by that of Dmitri Shostakovich (1906-1975), and after the visit of Luigi Nono (1924-1990) in the USSR, by serialism, as clearly shown his "Music for Piano and Chamber Orchestra "(1964). However, dissatisfied with what he will consider being a "puberty rite," Schnittke create very quickly what has been defined as the "polystylism" juxtaposition of different styles of music, as evidenced by his second Sonata for violin and piano (1968), which will become more and more refined over the years. He had very close relations with performers such as Gidon Kremer, Yuri Bashmet, Natalia Gutman, Gennady Rozhdestvensky and Mstislav Rostropovich, as well as the composer Arvo Pärt (born 1935). From 1962 to 1972, Schnittke taught at the Moscow Conservatory. Converted to Christianity, Schnittke turned to a spiritual quest, and will be several times during "The Age Brezhnev", the target of the Soviet bureaucracy. In 1985, he suffered a first stroke leaving him in a coma, which became recurrent phenomenon. In 1990 he left Russia to settle in Hamburg. His health remained fragile it undergoes several more attacks before dying in 1998.

Alfred Schnittke is one of the most important composers of the second half of the twentieth century. Among his major works, one can note three Sonatas and five "Aphorisms" for piano, three sonatas for violin and piano, two sonatas for cello and piano, Prelude "in Memoriam Dmitri Shostakovich" for two violins, "Stille Musik" for violin and cello, String Trio, also arranged for Piano Trio, four string quartets, a Canon "in Memoriam Igor Stravinsky" for String Quartet, a Piano Quintet, a "Serenade" for violin, clarinet, double bass, piano and percussion, a Septet, three piano concertos (s), four violin concertos, three concertos for viola, two cello concertos, a Double Concerto for oboe, harp and strings, a Triple Concerto for violin, viola and cello, six Concerto Grosso for various instrumental combinations, ten symphonies, numbered from 0 to 9, the last being unfinished, three ballets, "Labyrinths" on an argument of Vladimir Vasilyev, "Sketches" on topics of Nikolai Gogol and "Peer Gynt "based on the drama by Henrik Ibsen, three operas," Life with an Idiot "," Historia von D. Johann