Talk:Alfred Schnittke

message: I find this sentence rather complicated :) :
: His father was born in Frankfurt to a Jewish family of Russian origin who had moved to the USSR in 1926,
His dad was born a Russian Jew whose family then moved to the USSR?  Or by moving to the USSR they became Russian?  A-giau 08:22, 26 Nov 2004 (UTC)
thread_title: Complicated sentence

message: I've removed the link to AlfredSchnittke.com. The site provides no information about the composer. And I can only imagine that the person who maintains it is mentally ill. Crculver 02:02, 28 Jan 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: I don't see a link in the article currently to this site. In any any case, I did go to the site out of curiosity. I suppose someone might possibly find it amusing (I did not), but I don't see that it has any bearing on this article (despite its name) and vote against having a link here. (I would add that a vote in favor by the creator of the site should not count since he is obviously biased. In fact, he should not be advertising his site even on the talk page. That makes the tally so far by my count 2- 0.)TheScotch (talk) 06:28, 2 January 2023 (UTC)
thread_title: AlfredSchnittke.com

message: Schnittke was baptised in the Roman Catholic Church and much of his productivity was after his conversion. A great deal of his later works are specifically Christian. Why list him under "Jews in Music"? CRCulver 22:36, 21 September 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: You're confusing ethnicity (Jew) with religion (Jewish) - there are religious Orthodox, Reformed, etc., JEWS, Christian Jews, and even the very odd Muslim Jew (after marrying a Muslim man - rare but it happens, you can't fight l-o-v-e!  :-)  Anyway, Schnittke was a Christian(ized) Jew. Or, to get technical about it, he was a Russo-German Christian Jew. Since his father was an atheist, the Jewish religion doesn't come into the picture.  I don't know what faith his mother had - anyone have a good bio (book) of him at hand? HammerFilmFan (talk) 22:06, 23 July 2014 (UTC)
thread_title: Why listed in Jews in Music?

message: I've added Schnittke's IMDB entry.
I've amended the sentence on the Fifth Symphony saying that it is 'confusing' that the work also his Fourth Concerto Grosso. Confusing it may be for some, but a less POV statement is that the Concerto Grosso is incorporated into the Symphony, which it surely is.--Stevouk 10:25, 7 July 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Symphony No. 5/Concerto Grosso No. 4

message: I've reviewed this article as part of the Composers project review of its B-class articles.  This is a Start-class article; the biographic section (all 2+ paragraphs) is notably too short, and the musicology lacks in critical and popular commentary.  My full review is on the comments page; questions and comments should be left here or on my talk page. Magic♪piano 12:56, 26 March 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Composer project review

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message: The concerto dedicated to Krainev is Concerto for Piano and Strings (1979). I do not have a reference at hand, but this is at least correct. Sasha (talk) 15:16, 31 March 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: That seems more likely. I'm not sure if this should be mentioned in this list, even with a reference — the list doesn't mention the dedicatees of other works.  If someone were to create an article on the Concerto for Piano and Strings it would seem appropriate to mention it there.  --Deskford (talk) 15:26, 31 March 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: I agree with you. Sasha (talk) 15:47, 31 March 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  krainev 

message: This article says nothing about what instrument that Alfred Schnittke was trained on as child or had as his main musical instrument as a musician. I assume it's the piano based on some links on this page. Can someone please verify and include fact in this Wikipedia article, its quite an omission really! I came to this page to find out this particular detail and its no where to be seen. Thank you to whoever fixes this with the correct knowledge. Simon Rashleigh 04:45, 29 March 2015 (UTC)
replies: text: Why do you suppose he was trained on any instrument at all? According to New Grove, he "studied in the Choirmasters' Department at the October Revolution Music College in Moscow", which suggests his orientation as a performer may have been as a singer rather than as an instrumentalist. An unforgivable lapse for a composer from after 1600, of course, but not entirely unprecedented.—Jerome Kohl (talk) 06:03, 29 March 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Early Life as Musician 

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thread_title: Assessment comment

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message: The text says "3 August 1998" twice, but the info box says "4 August 1990". I don't have access to any of the sources, so I can't know which one is right. But one of the two is wrong, for sure. You only die once. (that sounds like the worst James Bond knockoff title ever :-) --95.89.78.72 (talk) 15:46, 11 August 2023 (UTC)
replies: text: Okay, I checked Britannica ( https://www.britannica.com/biography/Alfred-Schnittke ) and they also list Aug. 3, 1998. I change the info box accordigly. --95.89.78.72 (talk) 15:47, 11 August 2023 (UTC)
replies: text: Thank you for catching that! —CurryTime7-24 (talk) 15:55, 11 August 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Time of death?