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name: "Alfred Schnittke"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/alfred-schnittke"
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imdb_id: "nm0006289"
tmdb_id: 1092911
wikidata_id: "Q158078"
roles: ["Composer"]
born: "24 November 1934"
died: "3 August 1998"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-09-26T00:10:55.099301+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
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# Alfred Schnittke

## Identity

Alfred Schnittke

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/alfred-schnittke
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** alfred-schnittke
- **IMDb ID:** nm0006289
- **TMDB ID:** 1092911
- **Wikidata ID:** Q158078
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfred_Schnittke, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q158078, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0006289/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1092911

Composer. Born 24 November 1934 in Engels, ASSR nemtsev Povolzhya, RSFSR, USSR [now Engelsskiy rayon, Saratovskaya oblast, Russia]. Died 3 August 1998.

## Details

- **Work:** Composer
- **Born:** 24 November 1934, Engels, ASSR nemtsev Povolzhya, RSFSR, USSR [now Engelsskiy rayon, Saratovskaya oblast, Russia]
- **Died:** 3 August 1998
- **Also known as:** Alfred Shnitke, Alfred Shnittke, Alfred Snitke, A. Shnitke, А. Шнитке
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfred_Schnittke, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q158078, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0006289/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1092911

## Biography

Alfred Schnittke was a Soviet and Russian composer. He wrote the score for Larisa Shepitko's *The Ascent* (1977), as well as for *The Commissar* (1967), *Air Crew* (1980) and other films.

Born in Engels in 1934, Schnittke studied music in Vienna from 1946 to 1948 and later at the Moscow Conservatory. He produced more than sixty film scores between 1961 and 1984, alongside concert works that often employed a polystylistic technique.

Schnittke received the Praemium Imperiale in 1992. He died in Hamburg in 1998.

*Sources: en.wikipedia.org, britannica.com, criterion.com.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *The Ascent* (1977), Fi1m 88, Original Music Composer, Music — [page](https://film.one/film/the-ascent.md)

## Complete filmography (97)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *Sanatorium Under the Sign of the Hourglass* (2025), Original Music Composer
- *Hope for Peace Concert from the Frauenkirche - Dresden* (2022), Music
- *Four Roads* (2021), Original Music Composer
- *B-1* (2018), Original Music Composer
- *Anna Karenina* (2017), Music
- *Harm* (2015), Music
- *Maria's House* (2014), Original Music Composer
- *The Master and Margarita* (2011), Original Music Composer
- *After* (2009), Music
- *Мастер и Маргарита* (2006), series, Original Music Composer
- *The Ninth Day* (2004), Music
- *Thorsten Flinck's Pariah* (2003), Music
- *Ivan Marchuk: "The voice of my soul"* (1998), Music
- *Adam and Eve. Liberation From Original Sin* (1997), Original Music Composer
- *Sky. Last Dream* (1997), Original Music Composer
- *Chornobyl. Epilogue* (1996), Music
- *Presence* (1993), Music
- *Saint Vladimir* (1993), Music
- *Your Fingers Smell Like Incense* (1993), Music
- *Mr. Sobchak In His Shirt-Sleeves* (1992), Music
- *Theory of Sets* (1991), Music
- *Ward No. 6* (1991), Music
- *School of Fine Arts* (1990), Music
- *Sphinx* (1990), Music
- *Swan Song* (1990), Music
- *Dina* (1990), Music
- *Lyuba* (1990), Music
- *The Wild One* (1990), Music
- *School of Fine Arts. Return* (1990), Music
- *A Visitor to a Museum* (1989), Original Music Composer
- *...And This Happened in Vichy* (1989), Original Music Composer
- *The Different One* (1989), Original Music Composer
- *Maria* (1988), Music
- *The Light Shines in the Darkness* (1988), Music
- *School of Fine Arts. Juniper Landscape* (1987), Music
- *My Favorite Time* (1987), Music
- *Life of Klim Samgin* (1986), Music
- *Dead Souls* (1984), Music
- *Dead Souls* (1984), series, Music
- *The Story of the Voyages* (1983), Original Music Composer
- *Farewell* (1983), Original Music Composer
- *Big Boy* (1982), Music
- *Rubber and Pencil* (1982), Music
- *Faratyev's Fantasies* (1982), Original Music Composer
- *Autumn* (1982), Music
- *Falling Stars* (1981), Original Music Composer
- *Agony: The Life and Death of Rasputin* (1981), Original Music Composer
- *Don Carlos* (1981), Music
- *Larisa* (1980), Music
- *Little Tragedies* (1980), series, Original Music Composer
- *Little Tragedies* (1980), Original Music Composer
- *Air Crew* (1980), Original Music Composer
- *With You I Am Again...* (1980), Sound
- *Father Sergius* (1978), Original Music Composer
- *The Captain's Daughter* (1978), Original Music Composer
- *Clowns and Children* (1977), Music
- *The Ascent* (1977), Original Music Composer — Fi1m 88, [page](https://film.one/film/the-ascent.md)
- *The White Ship* (1976), Original Music Composer
- *Rikki-Tikki-Tavi* (1976), Original Music Composer
- *The Adventures of Travka* (1976), Original Music Composer
- *The Blackamoor of Peter the Great* (1976), Original Music Composer
- *Story of an Unknown Actor* (1976), Original Music Composer
- *Choice of Purpose* (1975), Original Music Composer
- *Trainers* (1975), series, Original Music Composer
- *Tanya* (1974), Original Music Composer
- *Autumn* (1974), Original Music Composer
- *The Little House in Kolomna* (1974), Music
- *The Cities and the Years* (1974), Original Music Composer
- *And Still I Believe* (1974), Music
- *Right to Jump* (1973), Original Music Composer
- *In the World of the Fables* (1973), Music
- *The Hot Snow* (1972), Original Music Composer
- *The Seagull* (1972), Original Music Composer
- *Butterfly* (1972), Music
- *About Crank Little Frog* (1972), Original Music Composer
- *Past and Thoughts* (1972), series, Music
- *You and Me* (1971), Original Music Composer
- *The Last Flight of the 'Albatross'* (1971), series, Music
- *Byelorussian Station* (1971), Original Music Composer
- *Our Gagarin* (1971), Music
- *Uncle Vanya* (1970), Original Music Composer
- *Night Call* (1970), Sound
- *Sport, Sport, Sport* (1970), Original Music Composer
- *Armoire* (1970), Music
- *Вальс* (1969), Original Music Composer
- *Ballerina on the Boat* (1969), Music
- *We Are Taking All The Fire* (1969), Original Music Composer
- *The House and the Host* (1968), Original Music Composer
- *The Sixth of July* (1968), Original Music Composer
- *The Glass Harmonica* (1968), Music
- *Beginning of an Unknown Era* (1967), Original Music Composer
- *The Commissar* (1967), Original Music Composer
- *Adventures of a Dentist* (1967), Original Music Composer
- *A Joke* (1966), Music
- *The Stars of the Day* (1966), Original Music Composer
- *Call Fire for Ourselves* (1965), series, Original Music Composer
- *Introduction to Life* (1962), Original Music Composer

## Awards

### Other awards — 5 won

- Austrian Decoration for Science and Art 1995: Austrian Decoration for Science and Art (won)
- State Prize of the Russian Federation 1995: State Prize of the Russian Federation (won)
- Bach Prize of the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg 1992: Bach Prize of the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg (won)
- Praemium Imperiale 1992: Praemium Imperiale (won)
- Krupskaya State Prize of the RSFSR 1986: Krupskaya State Prize of the RSFSR (won)

*From Wikidata, which records wins more completely than nominations.*

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