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| Date | Life | Works | Premières, cultural life and politics |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1934-11-24 | Birth in Engels (Boronsk), the capital of the Autonomous Soviet Republic of the Volga German, established by Lenin after the Revolution of 1917. | ||
| 1934 | Stalin’s terror increases in the Soviet Union. Writer Maxim Gorky declares new principles of so-called “socialist realism,” hailing Stalin as a “Great Leader.” | ||
| 1941-04[05] | Schnittke auditions at the Central Music School for gifted children, a branch of the Moscow Conservatory | ||
| 1941-06 | Schnittke returns to Engels | ||
| 1941-06-22 | Germany invades the Soviet Union. | ||
| 1941-07 | Schnittke’s family stays in Engels, because his father, Harry is able to prove that he is a Jew | ||
| 1941-07-28 | Stalin orders the dissolution of the Republic of the Volga Germans. All Volga Germans go into exile, some to Siberia, and others to Kazakhstan. | ||
| 1945 | Schnittke’s father moves to Vienna where he obtained a position on the staff of the newspaper Österreichische Zeitung, published by the occupying forces in Austria. | ||
| 1945 | Schnittke hears about Kurt Weill’s The Threepenny Opera from his father. He hears Shostakovich’s Symphony No. 7 on the radio. | ||
| 1946 | Schnittke moves to Vienna with his family. He plays an accordion given to his father. He begins music theory and piano lessons. | ||
| 1946 | First composition: a piano piece in A major (reused in his music for film cartoons). | ||
| 1946-48 | Schnittke attends numerous concerts in Vienna (especially Beethoven, Schubert, and Bruckner). Sees operas by Mozart, Wagner, Leoncavallo, and Mascagni. | ||
| 1948 | Schnittke’s family returns to Russia, settling in the small village of Valentinovka, near Moscow. | ||
| 1948 | Andrei Zhdanov, Stalin’s spokesman for “Communism in the Arts,” accuses Prokofiev, Shostakovich, and others (such as the poet Anna Akhmatova and the satirist Mikhail Zoshchenko) of “formalism.” Tikhon Khrennikov is appointed head of the Union of Soviet Composers by special decree of Stalin and retains this position for more than 40 years. | ||
| 1948 | [Ivashkin: Lost: Concerto for Accordion and Orchestra (lost), starts working on.] | ||
| 1949 | Reads Thomas Mann’s Doktor Faustus for the first time. | ||
| 1949 | Lost: Concerto for Accordion and Orchestra | ||
| 1949-08 | Schnittke auditions for the October Revolution Music College in Moscow. He becomes a student in the Choirmasters’ Department. This is his only chance to study music. | ||
| 1950-52 | Starts regular private lessons in music theory with Iosif Ryzhkin. Regular piano classes under Vassily Shaternikov, along with fellow students such as Rodion Shchedrin, Karen Khachaturian, and Yuri Butsko. | ||
| 1950-52 | Discussion of Skriabin, whose music is officially banned at the time. As a pianist Schnittke performs Hayden, Mozart, Chopin, and Grieg. LPs first appear in Soviet Union, and Schnittke borrows many records. | ||
| 1952-02-18 | Schnittke is present at the first performance of Prokofies’s Sinfonia Concertante in Moscow; it is played by Mstislav Rostropovich and conducted by Sviatoslav Richter. | ||
| 1953-03-05 | Stalin and Prokofiev both die. | ||
| 1953-03 | Schnittke is unable to attend Prokofiev’s funeral because millions are thronging Red Square to say farewell to their dictator. September: Commences his studies at the Moscow Conservatory, studying composition with Evgeni Golubev and orchestration with Nikolai Rakov. | ||
| 1953 | Early: Poème, for piano and orchestra, first completed orchestral score. | ||
| 1953 | Early: The Passing Line of Clouds Grows Thinner, for voice and piano, to a poem by Alexander Pushkin (in Russian) | ||
| 1953 | Fugue, for solo violin | ||
| 1953-12-28 | Schnittke attends the first performance of Shostakovich’s Symphony No. 10, which makes a strong and lasting impression. | ||
| 1953-54 | Early: Six Preludes, for piano | ||
| 1954-55 | Begins to study scores of Schoenberg, Webern, Berg, and Stravinsky, and later of Kodály, Hindemtih, and Orff. Only now are scores from these composers available in USSR. | ||
| 1954-55 | [Ivashkin: Sonata for piano, first compositions at the Conservatory.] | ||
| 1954-55 | Early: Variations, for piano | ||
| 1954-55 | Early: Sonata [No. 0] for Violin and Piano | ||
| 1954-55 | Early: Dusk, for voice and piano, to a poem by Fyodor Tyutchev (in Russian) | ||
| 1954-55 | Early: Beggar, for voice and piano, to a poem by Mikhail Lermontov | ||
| 1954-55 | Early: Brich Tree, for voice and piano, to a poem by Stepan Shchiparev (in Russian) | ||
| 1954-55 | Early: Scherzo, for piano quintet, later for orchestra | ||
| 1954-55 | Early: Intermezzo, for piano quintet | ||
| 1954-55 | Early: Suite, for strings, later for chamber orchestra | ||
| 1954-55 | Early: Overture, for Orchestra | ||
| 1956 | [Ivashkin: Receives his first official commission: Three Choruses.] | ||
| 1956-02-04 | Following its Moscow première, Schnittke is greatly influenced by Shostakovich’s Violin Concerto No. 1. | ||
| 1956-03 | Schnittke marries Galina Koltsina, a musicologist and fellow student at the Conservatory. Their marriage is to last 3 years. | ||
| 1956-02 | The 20 th congree of the Soviet Communist Party openly condemns Stalin’s methods amid sensational disclosure of his crimes. | ||
| 1956-10 | Soviet troops invade Hungary. | ||
| 1956-02 | Makes plan to write his own violin concerto. | ||
| 1956-10 | [Ivashkin: Schnittke finishes a Symphony (No. 0), a student effort; it is greatly influenced by Stravinsky.] | ||
| 1956-57 | Early: Symphony[No. 0] | ||
| 1957 | Concerto No. 1 for Violin and Orchestra . He later revised the score twice (final version in 1963). | ||
| 1958? | Play: Mayakovsky’s Debut, poem by Mayakovsky | ||
| 1958 | Vocalise, for mixed choir a capella | ||
| 1958 | Graduates from the Moscow Conservatory. Schnittke starts postgraduate studies at the Moscow Conservatory, remaining there until 1961. | Early: Nagasaki, oratorio for mezzo-soprano, mixed choir and orchestra on a text by Anatoly Sofronov, Georgi Fere, Eneda Eisaku and Simedziku Toson [Graduation piece] | Nagasaki is criticized by the Composer’ Union for modernism. Shostakovich writes in support of Nagasaki, which is recorded for radio transmission abroad, but not within the USSR. |
| 1959 | Early: Songs of War and Peace, cantata for soprano, mized choir and orchestra on texts by Anatoly Leontyev and Andrei Pokrovsky, based on modern Russian folk songs. [Ivashkin: A cantata based on modern folk tune he found in the Conservatory’s archives.] | ||
| 1959 | Unfinished: String Quartet | ||
| 1959 | Première: Early: Nagasaki, Moscow Nina Postavnicheva, mezzo-soprano – USSR Tadio and TV Full Symphony Orchestra – Algis Ž iuraitis, conductor | ||
| 1960 | Concerto for Piano and Orchestra (No. 1) | ||
| 1960 | [Ivashkin: Unfinished: String Quartet] | ||
| 1960 | Unfinished: Concerto for Electric Instrument | ||
| 1960 | Première: Concerto for Piano and Orchestra (No. 1), Moscow Leonid Brumberg, piano – USSR State Symphony Orchestra – Vladimir Bakharev, conductor | ||
| 1960 | |||
| 1960-12-20 | Première: Early: Songs of War and Peace, Moscow, Great Hall of the Conservatoire USSR State Symphony Orchestra – Dzhermal Dalgat, conductor. [Ivashkin: Afterward Shostakovich shakes Schnittke’s hand, pronouncing the cantata “a remarkable work.”] | ||
| 1961 | Enters the Composers’ Union with Poem about Space Schnittke is invited to teach at the Moscow Conservatory (until 1971). | Composes Poem about Space for electronic instruments, including the theremin. | Shostakovich sharply criticizes Poem about Space for its “old-fashioned modernism.” |
| 1961-02-04 | Marries the pianist Irina Katayeva, his former private student. | ||
| 1961-08 | A wall is built in Berlin to prevent defection from East to West. | ||
| 1962 | Suite for Children, for small orchestra | ||
| 1962 | Schnittke is on the verge of becoming an official composer. Schnittke is blacklisted by the Composers’ Union and remains so until the mid-1980s. He composes for the film industry; much of their material is also used in his serious compositions. | Early: The Eleventh Commandment, opera in two acts, libretto by Marina Churova, Georgy Ansimov and Alfred Schnittke. [Ivashkin: official commission for the Bolshoi Theater.] | |
| 1962 | Film: Introduction, produced by Mosfil – Igor Talankin (director) | ||
| 1962 | TV: The Rose and the Cross (after Alexander Blok), produced by TV film – Lev Elagin (director) | ||
| 1962 | Première: Suite for Children, Moscow USSR Radio Symphony Orchestra – Algis Žiuraitis, conductor | ||
| 1962 | The Eleventh Commandment is played for the board of the Bolshoi Opera, but is not accepted for performance. The “Khrushchev Thaw” results in the publication of Alexander Solzhenitsyn’s One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich, which is praised even in the official newspaper Pravda. | ||
| 1962-10 | The Cuban missiles crisis brings the United States and the USSR to the brink of war. | ||
| 1963 | Begin of serial period | ||
| 1963 | Luigi Nono visits Russia as a member of the Italian Communist Party. He meets Schnittke, Edison Denisov, Sofia Gubaidulina, and other Russian composers, and tell them about the most recent Western music. | ||
| 1963 | Sonata No. 1 for Violin and Piano [Ivashkin: dedicated to Mark Lubotsky] | ||
| 1963 | Prelude and Fugue, for piano | ||
| 1963-11-26 | Première: Concerto No. 1 for Violin and Orchestra, Moscow Mark Lubotsky, violin – USSR Radio and TV Symphony Orchestra – Gennadi Rozhdestvensky, conductor | ||
| 1963-64 | TV: Aim the Barrage at Us (4 parts) Produced by Mosfilm – Sergei Kolosov (director) | ||
| 1964 | End of the “thaw” following Khrushchec’s dismissal as Head of the Communist Party. Beginning of “stagnation” (until 1985) under Leonid Brezhnev. | ||
| 1964 | Music for Piano and Chamber Orchestra | ||
| 1964 | Lost: Music for Chamber Orchestra | ||
| 1964-05-10 | Première: Sonata No. 1 for Violin and Piano, Kazan Mark Lubotsky, violin – Alfred Schnittke, piano | ||
| 1965 | Three Poems by Marina Tsvetayeva, for soprano or mezzo-soprano and piano (in Russian) | ||
| 1965 | Dialogue, for violoncello and 7 instrumentalists. There is also a version for trombone by Christian Lindberg (1988) and one for bass clarinet by Volker Hemken (1992) available. | ||
| 1965 | Improvisation and Fugue, for piano | ||
| 1965 | Variations on a Chord, for piano | ||
| 1965 | Film: Adventures of a Dentist, produced by Mosfilm – Elem Klimov (director) | ||
| 1965? | TV: The Concealed Cabalerro (after Calderón de la Barca), produced by TV Film – Evgeni Savadski (director) | ||
| 1965 | Suite from Film: Adventures of a Dentist (arranged for light music ensemble by P. Dementyev) | ||
| 1965 | Première: Prelude and Fugue, Moscow Leonid Brumberg | ||
| 1965-02-23 | Birth of Andrei Schnittke | ||
| 1965-09 | Première: Music for Piano and Orchestra, Warshaw, Washaw Autumn Festival Alexandra Utrecht, piano – Puznań Symphony Orchestra – Vitold Krmenski, conductor That was Schnittke’s first performance abroad; Universal Edition buys rights to the work and becomes one of Schnittke’s two principal publishers. | ||
| 1965-10 | Music for Chamber Orchestra is performed in Leipzig in November. | ||
| 1965-11 | Première: Lost: Music for Chamber Orchestra | ||
| 1965-12-01 | Play: Somebody’s Life, by Dmitri Cholendro | Première: Moscow, Mossoviet Theatre Yevgeni Savadski (director) | |
| 1966 | Concerto No. 2 for Violin and Chamber Orchestra, dedicated to Mark Lubotsky. First commission from abroad. | From now on, performances of Schnittke’s works at major European Festival become more numerous. | |
| 1966 | String Quartet no. 1, dedicated by Rostislav Dubinsky, Primarius of the Borodin Quartet | ||
| 1966 | Film: Just a Little Joke, produced by Mosfilm – Andrei Smirnov (director) | ||
| 1966-01 | Première: Three Poems by Marina Tsvetayeva, Moscow Svetlana Yerofeyeva, mezzo-soprano | ||
| 1966-04-17 | Play: The Colonel’s Widow, by Yuhan Smuul | Première: Moscow, Mossoviet Theatre Les Tanyuk (director) | |
| 1966-06-20 | Première: Variations on a Chord, Moscow Irina Schnittke | ||
| 1966-07-12 | Première: Concerto No. 2 for Violin and Chamber Orchestra, Jyväskylä Mark Lubotsky, violin – Helsinki Radio Orchestra – Friedrich Cerha, conductor | ||
| 1967 | Mikhail Bulgakov’s novel The Master and Margarita (written in the late 1930s, and very important for generations of Soviet intelligentsia) is published for the first time in Moscow. | ||
| 1967 | Film: The Commissar (in the town of Berdichev), produced by Maxim Gorki Studio – Alexander Askoldov (director) | ||
| 1967-05-07 | Première: String Quartet No. 1, Leningrad Borodin Quartet | ||
| 1967-09 | Travels to Warsaw for the… | Première: Dialogue, Warshaw, Warshaw Autumn Festival Alexander Cechanski, violoncello – Instrumental Ensemble of the Warshaw Philharmonic Society – Tadeusz Dobrinski, conductor | |
| 1968 | Publication of Solzhenitsyn’s Cancer Ward. | ||
| 1968 | Begins working with Andrei Khrzhanovsky, director of film cartoons. Begin of Polystylistic period | ||
| 1968 | Magdalena’s Song, for voice and piano on words by Boris Pasternak (Russian) | ||
| 1968 | Pianissimo, for orchestra | ||
| 1968 | Sonata No. 2 for Violin and Piano (Quasi una Sonata), dedicated to Lyuba and Mark (Lybov Yedlina and Mark Lubotsky). Uses music from Glass Harmonica (film cartoon) | ||
| 1968 | Sonata for Violin and Chamber Orchestra, chamber orchestra version of the Sonata No. 1 for violin and Piano | ||
| 1968 | Serenade . Uses music from Glass Harmonica (film cartoon). | ||
| 1968 | Film: Day Stars, produced by Mosfilm – Igor Talankin (director) | ||
| 1968 | Film: The Ownerless House, produced by Mosfilm – Budimir Metalnikov (director) | ||
| 1968 | Film: The Angel, produced by Central Experimenal Film Studio – Sergei Smirnov (director) | ||
| 1968 | Film: The Sixth of July, produced by Mosfilm – Juli Karasik (director) | ||
| 1968 | Film: Used Cartridge Cases, produced by Maxim Gorki Studio – Evgeni Fridman (director) | ||
| 1968 | TV: The Night Call, produced by Ekran Studio – Valerian Kvachadze (director) | ||
| 1968 | Cartoon: The Glass Accordion, produced by All-Union's Animated Cartoons Studio – Andrei Chrshanovsky (director) | ||
| 1968 | The orchestral piece Pianissimo (based on Frank Kafka) is premièred at the Donaueschingen Festival. | ||
| 1969 | Alexander Solzhenitsyn is expelled from the Writers' Union | ||
| 1969 | Work on a film documentary, The World Today (music from the film is used in the Symphony No. 1) | ||
| 1969 | [Stream, electronic music] | ||
| 1969 | Film: Sick at Heart (after a story by Anton Cheknov), produced by Mosfilm – Boris Blank (director) | ||
| 1969 | TV: The Waltz, produced by Mosfilm Studio, TV Section – Viktor Titov (director) | ||
| Cartoon: A Ballerina Abroad, produced by All-Union's Animated Cartoons Studio – Lev Atamonov (director) | |||
| 1969-72 | Writes over 13 film scores. | ||
| 1969-72 | Symphony No. 1 | ||
| 1969-02-24 | Première: sonata No. 2 for violin and Piano (Quasi una Sonata), Kazan Mark Lubotsky, violin – Lyubov Yedlina, piano | ||
| 1969 (Spring) | Première: Serenade, Moscow Alexander Melnikov, violin – Lev mikhailov, clarinet – Rustem Gabdullin, double bass – Boris Berman, piano – Merk Pekarsky, percussion – Gennadi Rozhdestvensky, conductor | ||
| 1969-10-19 | Première: Pianissimo, Donaueschingen Südmestfunk-Orchester Baden-Baden – Ernst Bour, conductor | ||
| 196? (late) | Play: Boris Gudunov, poem by Alexander Pushkin | Première | |
| 1970 | Suite from Film: Sport, Sport, Sport (compilation by Emin Khachaturian) | ||
| 1970-01-03 | Play: Way of the Cross, based on Alexei Tolstoy’s like-named novel | Première: Moscow, Central Theatre of the Soviet Army Aiseni Yachalchik (director) | |
| 1971 | Labyrinths, ballet in five episodes. Libretto by Vladimir Vasilyev. | ||
| 1971 | Double Concerto for Oboe, Harp, and Strings, dedicated to Heinz Holliger, Ursula Holliger and the Zagreb Soloists Chamber Orchestra | ||
| 1971 | Verses Written in the Sleeplessness of the Night, for voice and piano on verses by Alexander Pushkin (Russian). Originally composed for a television production. | ||
| 1971 | Canon in Memoriam Igor Stravinsky, for string quartet, commissioned by the music magazine ‘Tempo’, London | ||
| 1971 | Eight Pieces, for piano | ||
| 1971 | Film: Belorussian Station, produced by Mosfilm – Andrei Smirnov | ||
| 1971 | Film: Uncle Vanya (after Anton Chekhov's likenamed play), produced by TV film – Andrei Mikhalkov-Konchalovsky (director) | ||
| 1971 | Film: Sport, Sport, Sport, produced by Mosfilm – Elem Klimov (director) | ||
| 1971 | Film: The Seagull (after Anton Chekhov's likenamed play), produced by Mosfilm – Juli Karasik (director) | ||
| 1971 | TV: The Last Run of the 'Albatross' ( 4 parts), produced by Ekran Studio – Leonid Pcholkin (director) | ||
| 1971 | TV: A Cottage in Kolomna, produced by TV film – Lev Elagin (director) | ||
| 1971 | Cartoon: The Wardrobe, produced by All-Union's Animated Cartoons Studio – Andrei Chrshanovsky (director) | ||
| 1971 | Documentary: Our Gagarin, produced by Central Documentary Film Studio – Irina Besarabova (director) | ||
| 1971 | Première: Cana in Memoriam Igor Stravinsky, London Borodin Quartet | ||
| 1971-12-21 | Première: Eight Pieces, Moscow Andrei Schnittke (only nos. 1-4) | ||
| 1972 | Sudden death of Schnittke mother. | ||
| 1972 | A new simpler style now prevails in his music. | [Ivaskin: Starts work on Requiem.] | |
| 1972 | Voices of Nature, for 10 female voices and vibraphone (without text) | ||
| 1972 | Suite in Old Style, for violin and piano (harpsichord) | ||
| 1972 | Film: You and Me, produced by Mosfilm – Larissa Shepitko (director) | ||
| 1972 | Cartoon: Cheer Up, The Worst is Yet to Come, produced by All-Union's Animated Cartoons Studio – Lev Atamanov (director) | ||
| 1972 | Cartoon: The Butterfly, produced by All-Union's Animated Cartoons Studio – Andrei Chrshanovsky (director) | ||
| 1972 | Cartoon: The Strange Little Frog (The Funny Merry-Go-Roung No. 4), produced by All-Union's Animated Cartoons Studio – Valery Ugarov (director) | ||
| 1972 | Documentary: Chile Fights and Hopes, produced by Central Documentary Film Studio – Yuri Monglovsky (director) | ||
| 1972 | Première: Labyrinths, first episode, Moscow, All-Union Ballet Competition Chamber Orchestra of the Bolshoi Theatre – Vladimir Vasilyev, choreographer – Adolf Bruk, conducor. | ||
| 1972-74 | Film: The World Today(and yet I believe) (2 parts), produced by Mosfilm – Michail Romm (director) | ||
| 1972-76 | Piano Quintet | ||
| 1972-05 | Première: Double Concerto for Oboe, Harp, and Strings, Zagreb, Zagreb Biennale Heinz Holliger, oboe – Ursula Holliger, harp – Zagreb Soloists Chamber Orchestra | ||
| 1973 | Publishes his article "Paradox as a Feature of Stravinsky's Musical Logic" | ||
| 1973 | Mstislav Rostropovich leaves the USSR. | ||
| 1973 | Film: Where the Arbat Crosses Bubulinas Street, produced by Mosfilm – Manos Zakharias (director) | ||
| 1973 | Film: Hot Snow, produced by Mosfilm – Gavril Egiasarov (director) | ||
| 1973 | Film: The Right to Jump, produced by Mosfilm – Valery Kremnyov (director) | ||
| 1973 | TV: My Past and my Thoughts (17 part production after Alexander Herzen), produced by TV film – Lev Elagin (director) | ||
| 1973 | Cartoon: In Fableworld, produced by All-Union's Animated Cartoons Studio – Andrei Chrshanovsky (director) | ||
| 1973 | Documentary: The Arduous Roads of Peace (The Balance of Terror), produced by Central Documentary Film Studio – Michail Romm (director). Completed by Elem Klimov and Marlen Khutsiev) | ||
| 1973-04 | Première: Improvisation and Fugue, Moscow Vladimir Krainev | ||
| 1973-74 | Composes Der gelbe Klang, a "scenic composition" for pantomime, soprano, chorus, and chamber ensemble; libretto by Vassily Kandinsky, partly based on Rudolf Steiner's anthroposophical ideas. | ||
| 1974 | Khrennikov says that Schnittke obviously lacks all talent for writing music and should not compose. | ||
| 1974 | The political atmosphere in Russia hardens when Solzhenitsyn is deported. | ||
| 1974 | Schnittke is not permitted to present Symphony No. 1 in Moscow. | ||
| 1974 | Gratulationsrondo, for violin and piano, dedicated to Rostislav Dubinsky on the occasion of his 50 th birthday | ||
| 1974 | Film: Cities and Years, produced by Mosfilm – Alexander Zarkhy (director) | ||
| 1974 | Film: The Agony (part 1), produced by Mosfilm – Elem Klimov (director) | ||
| 1974 | Film: The Captain's Daughter (after Alexander Pushkin), produced by Mosfilm – Pavel Resnikov (director) | ||
| 1974-79 | Hymns I-IV . Each hymn can be performed separately. | ||
| 1974/81 | Suite from Film: The Agony (compilation by Emin Khachaturian) | ||
| 1974-02-09 | Première: Symphony No. 1, Gorky (Nizhny Nolvgorod) Gorky Philharmonic Orchestra – Gennadi Rozhdestvensky, conductor. | ||
| 1974-03-27 | Première: Suite in Old Style & Gratulationsrondo, Moscow Mark Lubotsky, violin – Lyubov Yedlina, piano | ||
| 1975 | Writes an article "Circles of Influence," describing how "for the past fifty years [Russian] music has been under the influence of Shostakovich. | ||
| 1975 | Schnittke is not allowed to attend… | Première of Der gelbe Klang, Saint Bomme (France), Festival of Modern Music. | |
| 1975 | Première: Voices of Nature, Moscow Moscow Conservatoire Students’ Choir – Boris Tevlin, conductor | ||
| 1975 | Eight Songs from the Incidental Music to Friedrich Schiller’s “Don Carlos”, for voice and piano or guitar (in Russian). No. 4 (‘Evil monks’) requires additional instruments: marimba, vibraphone, bells, timpani, tam-tam, electric guitar and bass guitar. | ||
| 1975 | Requiem, from the stage music to Friedrich Schiller’s drama “Don Carlos”, for 3 sopranos, contralto, tenor, mixed choir and instrumental ensemble (in Latin) | ||
| 1975 | Cantus Perpetuus, for keyboard instrument (piano, harpsichord, organ or celesta), solo percussionist and 4 percussionists (in the stage corners). the performance of Cantus Perpetuus results to be somehow problematic since the work exists only in the form of a diagram that has to be interpreted by the performers. Schnittke regarded the Pekarski interpretation, as it was performed in Moscow, as the final version. Unfortunately it has not been possible to reconstruct that version. | ||
| 1975 | Cadenza, to W. A. Mozart's Piano Concerto in C minor K. 491 (1st movement) | ||
| 1975 | Arrangement: W. A. Mozart, Pantomine, suite for chamber ensemble (Completion of Violin I and instrumentation for chamber ensemble of Mozart's Fragment K. 416d) | ||
| 1975 | Film: Autumn, produced by Mosfilm – Andrei Smirnov (director) | ||
| 1975-08 | Shostakovich dies. | ||
| 1975-08 | Prelude in Memoriam Dmitri Shostakovich, for 2 violins or for 1 violin and tape | ||
| 1975-12-05 | Première: Prelude in Memory of D. Shostakovich, Moscow Mark Lubotsky, violin | ||
| 1975-12-14 | Première: Cantus Perpetuus, Moscow Alexei Lubimov, keyboard – Mark Pekarsky, percussion | ||
| 1975-12-31/ 1976-01-01 |
Première: Arrangement: W. A. Mozart, Pantomine, Moscow (New Year's Day) Gidon Kremer, Tatyana Grindenko, Natalia Gutman, Oleg Kagan, Alexei Lubimov and others | ||
| 1976 | Der Sonnengesang des Franz von Assisi, for mixed two choir and 6 instruments on texts by S. Francesco d’Assisi (in Gernan) | ||
| 1976 | Moz-Art, for 2 violins (after sketches by W. A. Mozart, K. 416d) | ||
| 1976 | Arrangement: D. Shostakovich, Two Preludes for Small Orchestra (transcription of Nos. 1 and 2 from Five Preludes for Piano Op. 2 [1921]) | ||
| 1976 | Film: Selecting a Target (2 parts), produced by Mosfilm – Igor Talankin (director) | ||
| 1976 | Film: Ricky-Ticky-Tavi (after Rudyard Kipling's novel), produced by Tsentrnaukhfilm – Alexander Tsguridi (director) | ||
| 1976 | Film: The White Steamer, produced by Kirghizfilm – Bulat Shamshiev (director) | ||
| 1976 | Film: How Tsar Peter Got the Black Man Married, produced by Mosfilm – Alexander Mitta (director) | ||
| 1976 | Film: Clowns and Kids, produced by Mosfilm – Alexander Mitta (director) | ||
| 1976 | Film: The Ascent, produced by Mosfilm – Larissa Shepitko (director) | ||
| 1976 | Suite from Film: How Tsar Peter Got the Blach Man Married, for small orchestra | ||
| 1976-02 | Première: Moz-Art, for 2 violins, Vienna Gidon Kremer and Tatiana Grindenko, violins | ||
| 1976-09 | Première: Piano Quintet, [Ivashkin: Tbilisi] Georgian String Quartet – Nodar Gabunia, piano | ||
| 1976-12-26 | Play: Caesar and Cleopatra, play in 5 acts by George Bernard Shaw Play: Don Carlos, dramatical poem by Friedrich Schiller | Première: Moscow, mossoviet Theatre Yevgeni Savadski (director) | |
| 1977 | Khrennikov's office spreads the lie that Schnittke has defected to the West. Kremer performs Beethoven's Violin Concerto with Schnittke's cadenza (which quotes from all the major violin concerto). One American critic advises performers "to keep the moustaches off the Mona Lisas." | ||
| 1977 | Visits Bruckner’s burial place in the Austrian monastery of St. Florian. | ||
| 1977 | Schnittke makes is first trip to the West with the Lituanian Chamber Orchestra as a harpsichordist/pianist in his Concerto Grosso and Arvo Pärt Tabula Rasa -- he is allowed to travel only as a performer, not as a composer. | ||
| 1977 | In Vienna, Schnittke revisits his first piano teacher, Charlotte Ruber. Beginning of international success. | ||
| 1977 | Concerto Grosso No. 1, for two violins, harpsichord, prepared piano and strings, dedicated to Gidon Kremer, Tatiana Grindenko and Saulius Sondecki. Composed at the request of Gidon Kremer. There is also a version by the composer with flute and oboe replacing the two solo violins (1988) and an arrangement for two flutes by András Adorján (1989). | ||
| 1977 | Magdalina, for voice and piano, on a poem by Boris Pasternak (part of Hommage à Zhivago) | ||
| 1977 | Moz-Art à la Haydn, play on music for 2 violins, 2 small string orchestras, double-bass and conductor (after sketches by W. A. Mozart, K. 416d), dedicated to Tatyana Grindenko and Gidon Kremer. | ||
| 1977 | Two Cadenzas, to Ludwig Beethoven's Violin Concerto in D major, op. 61 for solo violin, 10 violins and timpani | ||
| 1977 | Arrangement: P. Tchaikovsky, Queen of Spades, opera in 2 acts after Alexander Pushkin | ||
| 1977 | Film: Travka's Adventures, produced by Mosfilm – Arkadi Kordon (director) | ||
| 1977 | Film: The Life-Story of an Unknown Actor, produced by Mosfilm – Alexander Zarkhy (director) | ||
| 1977 | Film: My Memories Take Me to You (after Alexander Pushkin), produced by All-Union's Animated Cartoons Studio – Andrei Khrshanovsky (director) | ||
| 1977 | Film: Human Requitale, produced by Mosfilm – Alexander Svetlanov (director) | ||
| 1977-78 | In Memoriam, for orchestra (orchestra version of the Piano Quintet) | ||
| 1977-03-21 | Première: Concerto Grosso No. 1, Leningrad Gidon Kremer and Tatiana Grindenko, violins – Yuri Smirnov, keyboard instruments – Leningrad Chamber Orchestra – Eri Klas, conductor | ||
| 1977 (Fall) | Première: Requiem, Budapest, Festival of Budapest Musical Weeks Kodály Choir | ||
| 1978 | Concerto No. 3 for Violin and Chamber Orchestra | ||
| 1978 | Sonata No. 1 for Violoncello and Piano . There is also an arrangement for viola and string orchestra by Yuri Bashmet. | ||
| 1978 | Stille Nacht, for violin and piano on motives of the likenamed German Christmas carol | ||
| 1978 | Film: Father Serghey (after Lev Tolstoy), produced by Mosfilm, Agor Talankin (director) | ||
| 1978 | TV: Trainers (8 parts), produced by Tsentrnaukh film – Alexander Tsguridi and Nana Kldiaskvili (directors) | ||
| 1978 | Play: A Duck Shooting Party, by Alexander Vampilov | Première. | |
| 1978-06-07 | Première: Labyrinths, Leningrad, Academic Choir Hall Old and Modern Music Orchestra – Eduar Serov, conductor | ||
| 1978-06-09 | Play: The Inspector’s Tale, after Nikolai Gogol | Première: Moscow, Taganka Theatre Yuri Lyubimov (director) | |
| 1979 | Pravda prints "Planning an Outrage", attacking an upcoming new production (in Paris) of Tchaikovsky's Queen of Spades in which Schnittke is involved, together with Gennadi Rozhdestvensky and producer Yury Liubimov. | ||
| 1979 | Interests himself in Yoga, cabbala, I Ching, and anthroposophy. | ||
| 1979 | Symphony No. 2, for mixed chamber choir and large orchestra (in Latin). Inspired by his 1977 visit to Bruckner’s burial place in St. Florian. | ||
| 1979 | Composes Four Hymns (on old Russian church tunes) | ||
| 1979 | Concerto for Piano and Strings | ||
| 1979 | Polyphonic Tango, for ensemble | ||
| 1979 | Stille Musik for violin and violoncello, dedicated to Mikhail Druskin | ||
| 1979 | Hommage à Igor Stravinsky, Sergey Prokofiev and Dmitri Shostakovich, for piano six-hands | ||
| 1979 | TV: The Fancies of Faryatyev (after Lev Tolstoy), produced by Lenfilm – Illia Averbach (director) | ||
| 1979 | Documentary: Paradoxes of Evolution, produced by Tsentrnaukhfilm – Alexander Tsguridi and Nana Kldiashvili (directors) | ||
| 1979-80 | Passacaglia, for orchestra | ||
| 1979-01 | Première: Stille Nacht, Leningrad Gidon Kremer, violin – Yelena Bashkirova, piano | ||
| 1979-01 | Première: Sonata No. 1 for Violoncello and Piano, Moscow Natalia Gutman, violoncello – Vassily Lobanov, piano | ||
| 1979-01-27 | Première: Concerto No. 3 for Violin and Chamber Orchestra, Moscow Oleg Kagan, violin – Chamber Orchestra of Moscow Conservatoire Students – Yuri Nikolayevsky, conductor | ||
| 1979-05-26 | Première: Hymns I-IV, Moscow Karine Georgian, violoncello – Rustem Gabdullin, double bass – Alexander Irshai, bassoon – Irina Schnittke, harpsichord – Irina Blokha, harp – Victor Grishin, percussion | ||
| 1979-09-15 | Première: Polyphonic Tango, Mpscopw Ensemble of Soloists of the Bolshoi Theatre Orchestra – Gennadi Rozhdestvensky, conductor | ||
| 1979 (Fall) | Première: Stille Musik, Paris Oleg Kagan, violin – Natalia Gutman, violoncello | ||
| 1979-12-10 | Première: Concerto for Piano and Strings, Leningrad Vladimir Krainez, piano – Leningrad Philharmonic Symphony Orchestra – Alexander Dmitriyev, conductor | ||
| 1979-12-20 | Première: In Memoriam, Moscow Moscow Philharmonic Symphony Orchestra – Gennadi Rozhdestvensky, conductor | ||
| 1979-12-20 | Play: Turandot, by Bertolt Brecht | Première: Moscow, Taganka Theatre Yuri Lyubimov (director) | |
| 1979-12-28 | Première: Hommage à Igor Stavisnky, Sergey Prokofiev and Dmitri Shostakovich, Moscow Victoria Postnikova, Gennadi Rozhdestvensky, Alexander Bakhchiyev | ||
| 1980 | Schnittke gives a series of lectures on 20th Century music, at the Vienna Hochschule für Musik. | ||
| 1980 | Gogol Suite, suite from the music to Yuri Lubimov’s production of “The Inspector’s Tale” at the Taganka Theater in Moscow – orchestrated by Gennadi Rozhdestvensky | ||
| 1980 | Three Madrigals, for soprano, violin, viola, double bass, vibraphone and harpsichord on poems by Francisco Tanzer (in French, German and English), dedicated to Sofia Gubaidulina on occasion of her 50 th birthday and to Francisco Tanzer on occasion of his 60 th birthday. There is also a version for soprano and piano by the composer achieved in 1982. | ||
| 1980 | String QuartetNo. 2, commissioned by Universal Edition, Vienna. Based on Russian Orthodox church tunes. Compulsory item for the International String Quartet Competition in Evian. | ||
| 1980 | Three Scenes, for soprano and percussion (vocalize), dedicated to Mark Pekarski and is ensemble | ||
| 1980 | Moz-Art, for oboe, harp, harpsichord, violin, violoncello and double bass (after sketches by W. A. Mozart, K. 416d) | ||
| 1980 | Two Short Pieces, for organ | ||
| 1980 | Two Cadenzas, to W. A. Mozart's Piano Concerto in C major K. 467 | ||
| 1980 | Film: The Plane Crew (2 parts), produced by Mosfilm – Elem Klimov (director) | ||
| 1980 | TV: Little Tragedies (3 part production after Alexander Pushkin), produced by Mosfilm – Mikhail Schweizer (director) | ||
| 1980 | Documentary: Larisa (documentary film in commemoration of Larissa Shepitko), produced by Mosfilm – Elem Klimov (director) | ||
| 1980 | Suite from Film: Little Tragedies, compilation and arrangement by Yuri Kasparov. | ||
| 1980-81 | Minnesang, for 52 voices on texts by the 12 th and 13 th century Minnesingers (Mönch von Salzburg, Friedrich von Sonnenburg, Alexander Meister, Heinrich von Meissen, Neidhart von Reuenthal, Walther von der Vogelweide and Wolfram von Eschenbach) (in German) | ||
| 1980-04-23 | Rozhdestvensky conducts the BBC Symphony Orchestra in the world première of the Symphony No. 2, in London. | ||
| 1980-05 | Première: String Quartet No. 2, Evian/France, International Competition of String Quartet Muir Quartet (USA) | ||
| 1980-11-10 | Première: Three Madrigals, Moscow Nelly Li, soprano – Ludmila Ignatyeva, violin – Igor Boguslavsky, viola – Nikolai Gorbunov, double bass – Victor Grishin, vibraphone – Vera Chasovennaya, harpsichord – Gennadi Rozhdestvesky, conductor | ||
| 1980-12-05 | Première: Gogol Suite, London BBC Symphony Orchestra – Gennadi Rozhdestvensky, conductor/speaker | ||
| 1981 | Schnittke is elected to the Presidium of the Union of Soviet Composers and also to membership in the Academy of Arts. | ||
| 1981 | Symphony No. 3, commissioned by the Gewandhaus Orchestra (Leipzig). | ||
| 1981 | Film: The Agony (part 2), prodeuced by Mosfilm – Elem Klimov (director) | ||
| 1981 | TV: Eugene Onegin (after Alexander Pushkin's like-named poem), produced by TV film – Yuri Krotenko (director) | ||
| 1981 | Cartoon: I Am With You Again (after Alexander Pushkin), produced by All-Union's Animated Cartoons Studio – Andrei Chrshanovsky (director) | ||
| 1981 | Documentary: What Does Babirussya Need Tusks For?, produced by Tsentrnaukhfilm – Alexander Tsguridi and Nana Kldiashvili (directors) | ||
| 1981 | Première: Three Scenes, Moscow Lydia Davydova, soprano – Mark Pekarsky Percussion Ensemble – Mark Pekarsky, conductor | ||
| 1981-82 | Septet, for flute, two clarinets, violin, viola, violoncello, and harpsichord (or organ) | ||
| 1981-82 | Concerto Grosso No. 2, for violin, violoncello and orchestra | ||
| 1981-02-26 | Play: Klim Samgin, after the novel by Maksim Gorki | Première: Moscow, Mayakovsky Theatre Andrei Goncharov (director) | |
| 1981-07 | Première : Moz-Art, for oboe, etc., Lockenhaus/Austria, Chamber Music festival Festival Ensemble – Gidon Kremer, conductor | ||
| 1981-10-21 | Première: Minnesang, Graz, Austria, Musikprotokoll Festival ‘Styrian Autumn’ Pro Arte Choir (Graz) – Karl Ernst Hoffmann, conductor | ||
| 1981-11-05 | Schnittke attends the triumphant… | Première: Symphony No. 3, Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra – Kurt Masur, conductor | |
| 1981-11-08 | Première: Passacaglia, Baden-Baden Südwestfunk Orchester Baden-Baden – Jacques Mercier, conductor | ||
| 1982 | Decides to be baptized in Vienna as a Roman Catholic, though he usually makes his confession to a Russian Orthodox priest. | ||
| 1982 | Lebenslauf, for 4 metronomes (tape), 3 percussionists and piano, dedicated to Wilfried Brennecke and John Cage | ||
| 1982 | A Paganini, for solo violin | ||
| 1982 | Film: Sturdy Boy, produced by Tsentrnaukhfilm – Alexander Tsguridi and Nana Kldiashvili (director) | ||
| 1982 | Film: Star Fall, produced by Mosfilm – Igor Talankin (director) | ||
| 1982 | Film: The Tale of Travels, produced by Mosfilm – Alexander Mitta (director) | ||
| 1982 | Cartoon: Pencil and Eraser (The Funny Merry-Go-Round No. 12), produced by All-Union's Animated Cartoons Studio – Elena Gavrilko (director) | ||
| 1982 | Cartoon: Autumn, produced by All-Union's Animated Cartoons Studio – Andrei Chrshanovsky (director) | ||
| 1982-04-25 | Première: Lebenslauf, Witten, Wittener Tage für neue Kammermusik Christian Roderburg, Karl Joseph Kels and Karl Hausgenoss, percussion – Sabine roderburg, piano | ||
| 1982-09-11 | Première: Concerto Grosso No. 2, Berlin Oleg Kagan, violin – Natalia Gutman, violoncello – Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra – Giuseppe Sinopoli, conductor | ||
| 1982-09-29 | Première: A Paganini, Leningrad Oleh Krysa | ||
| 1982-11-14 | Première: Septet, Moscow ensemble of Soloists of the Bolshoi Theatre Orchestra: Alexander Golyshev, Eduard Myasnikov, Nikolai Sokolov, Ludmilla Ignatyeva, Igor Boguslavsky, Alexander Ivashkin, Vera Chasovennaya – Alexander Lazarev, conductor | ||
| 1982-11-26 | Play: Spare the White Bird, by Nikolai Niroshnichenko, music by A. Schnittke, Y. Schwarz, and N. Rota | Première: Moscow, Young Spectator’s Theatre Vitulia Fridman (director) | |
| 1983 | Schnittke's popularity in Russia reaches unprecedented heights. All his concerts sell out, and the crowds are comparable to those large-scale pop concerts. | ||
| 1983 | Endstation sehnsucht (A Streetcar Named Desire), ballet in two acts by John Neumeier after the play by Tennessee Williams. Music by Sergey Prokofiev (Visions fugitives op. 22, version for strings and harp, by Rudolf Barshai and Viktor Suslin, and Alfred Schnittke (Symphony No. 1) – live of tape | ||
| 1983 | “Seid Nüchtern und wachet…” (Faust Cantata), cantata for contralto, counter-tenor, tenor, bass, mixed choir and orchestra. Text from “The History of D. Johann Faustus” (in German). | ||
| 1983 | Schall und Hall, for trombone and organ | ||
| 1983 | String Quartet No. 3, commissioned by the Society for New Music, Mannheim | ||
| 1983 | Cadenza, to W. A. Mozart's Piano Concerto in C major K. 503 (1st movement) | ||
| 1983 | Two Cadenzas, to W. A. Mozart's Concerto for Bassoon and Orchestra in B flat major K. 191 | ||
| 1983 | Film: The Leave-Taking (after V. Rasputin's like-named novel), produced by Mosfilm – Larisa Shepitko and Elem Klimov (directors). Jointly composed by Alfred Schnittke, Vyacheslav Artiomov, Sofia Gubaidulina and Viktor Suslin) | ||
| 1983 | Film: The Darling of the Audience, produced by Tsentrnaukhfilm – Alexander Tsguridi and Nana Kldiashvili (directors) | ||
| 1983-05-22 | Première: Schall und Hall, Moscow Konstantin Khersonsky, trombone, Oleg Yanchenko, organ | ||
| 1983-06-19 | Schnittke is present at… | Première: “Seit Nüchtern und wachet” (Faust Cantata),Vienna Carol Wyatt, contralto – Paul Esswood, counter-tenor – Helmut Wildhaber, tenor – Günter Reich, bass – Viennese Choir and Symphony Orchestra – Gennadi Rozhdesrvensky, conductor. * For the Moscow performance, the Russian pop star Alla Pugachova agrees to sing Mephisto but ultimately withdraws, thinking it would damage her image to depict the Devil. | |
| 1983-12-03 | Première: Endstation sehnsucht, Stuttgart, Kleines Haus der Württembergischen Staatstheater Strings of the Württembergische Staatstheater Orchestra – Michael Collins, conductor – The Stuttgart Ballet – John Neumeier, choreographer | ||
| 1983-12-30 | Première: Moz-Art à la Haydn, Tbilisi Georgian Chamber Orchestra – Liana Isakadze, conductor | ||
| 1984 | Symphony No. 4, for soprano, contralto, tenor, bass and chamber orchestra; alternative version: orchestra with a full set of strings, contralto (or counter-tenor), tenor and mixed choir | ||
| 1984 | Concerto No. 4 for Violin and Orchestra | ||
| 1984 | Three Sacred Hymns, for mixed choir | ||
| 1984 | Arrangement: Scott Joplin, Ragtime, for orchestra (transcription of a piano ragtime) | ||
| 1984 | Arrangement: Adolf Jensen, Serenade, for mezzo-soprano and orchestra (transcription of 'Serenade' for mezzo-soprano and piano) | ||
| 1984 | Arrangement: Friedrich Nietzsche, Beschwörung, for mezzo-orchestra and orchestra (transcription of Friedrich Nietzsche's 'Beschwörung' for mezzo-soprano and piano) | ||
| 1984 | Film: The White Poodle, produced by Tsentrnaukhfilm – Alexander Tsguridi and Nana Kldiashvili (directors) | ||
| 1984 | TV: Dead Souls (4 part production after Nikolai Gogol's like-named novel), produced by Mosfilm – Mikhail Schweizer (director) | ||
| 1984 | Suite from Film: Dead Souls (compilation by Gennadi Rozhdestvensky) | ||
| 1984-85 | Concerto for Mixed Choir, on verses from the “Book of Mournful Songs” by Grigor of Narek (Russian translation by Naum Brebnev), dedicated to an commissioned by Valery Polyansky and the USSR State Chamber Choir. The second movement can be performed separately. There is also an arrangement for string quartet of this movement (Collected Songs Where Every Verse is Filled with Grief) by the Kronos Quartet (Davig Harrington, 1997). | ||
| 1984-85 | Ritual, for orchestra; in memory of the victims of the Second World War (on the occasion of the 40 th Anniversary of the liberation of Belgrade) | ||
| 1984-01-06 | Russian première: Der gelbe Klang, Moscow, Tchaikovsky Concert Hall Ensemble of Soloists of the Bolshoi Theatre Orchestra – Nelly Li, soprano – Moscow Ensemble of Plastic Drama – Gedrus Mackavicus, director – Alexander Lazarev, conductor. | ||
| 1984-01-08 | Première: String Quartet No. 3, Moscow Beethoven Quartet: Oleh Krysa and Nikolai Zabavnikov, violins – Fyodor Druzhinin, viola – Valentin Feigin, violoncello | ||
| 1984-02-16 | Play: The Devils, after Fyodor Dostoevsky’s novel | Première: London Yuri Lyubimov (director) | |
| 1984-02-17 | Première: Arrangement: Adolf Jensen, Serenade, Moscow & Arrangement: Friedrich Nietzsche, Beschwörung Tatiana Yerastova, mezzo-soprano – USSR Ministry of Culture State Symphony Orchestra – Gennadi Rozhdestvensky, conductor | ||
| 1984-04-12 | Première: Symphony No. 4, full string version, Moscow Moscow Philharmonic Symphony Orchestra, USSR State Chamber Choir – Erik Kurmangaliyev, counter-tenor – Alexei Martynov, tenor – Dmitri Kitaenko, conductor | ||
| 1984-07-14 | Première: Concerto for Mixed Choir, 3 rd movement, Istanbul USSR State Chamber Choir – Valery Polyansky, conductor | ||
| 1984-09 | Première: Concerto No. 4 for Violin and Orchestra, Berlin Gidon Kremer, violin – Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra – Christoph von Dohnányi, conductor | ||
| 1984-12-01 | Première: Arrangement: Scott Joplin, Ragtime, Moscow USSR Ministry of Culture State Symphony Orchestra – Gennadi Rozhdestvensky, conductor | ||
| 1985 | Othello, ballet in two acts by John Neumeier after the tragedy by William Shakespeare. Music by Alfred Schnittke (Concerto Grosso No. 1), Arvo Pärt (Mirror in a Mirror, Tabula Rasa), Nana Vasconcelos, Michael Praetorius and others. | ||
| 1985 | Sketches, ballet in one act. “Choerographic fantasia” by Andrei Petrov after the themes by Nikolai Gogol. Most of the numbers are orchestral versions compiled by Gennadi Rozhdestvensky – nos. 1 and 11 were jointly composed by Alfred Schnittke, Gennadi Rozhdestvensky, Sofia Gubaidulina and Edison Denisov | ||
| 1985 | (K)ein Sommernachtstraum, for orchestra (not after Shakespeare) | ||
| 1985 | Concerto Grosso No. 3, for 2 violins and chamber orchestra | ||
| 1985 | Concerto for Viola and Orchestra | ||
| 1985 | Music for an Imaginary Play, for ensemble | ||
| 1985 | String Trio, commissioned by the Alban Berg Society in commemoration of the composer’s 100 th anniversary | ||
| 1985 | Arrangement: Alban Berg, Canon "An das frankfurter Opernhaus" (arrangement of the likenamed work by Alban Berg), for 9 strings | ||
| 1985-86 | Concerto No. 1 for Violoncello and Orchestra | ||
| 1985-01-16 | Première: Sketches, Moscow, Bolshoi Theater. Gennadi Rozhdestvensky, conductor – Andrei Petrov, choreographer | ||
| 1985-01-27 | Première: Othello, Hamburg, Hamburgische Staatsoper (Kampnagel Fabrik) Hamburger Symphoniker – Janos Hörömpö and Franz Goldstein, violins – Heribert Beissel, piano/conductor – The Ballet of the Hamburgische Staatsoper – John Neumeier, choreographer | ||
| 1985-03-15 | Première: Ritual, Novosibirsk Novosibirsk Philharmonic Symphony Orchestra – Valery Polyansky, conductor | ||
| 1985-04-02 | Première: Arrangement: Alban Berg, Canon "An das frankfurter Opernhaus" (for 9 strings), Moscow Lithuanian Chamber Orchestra – Saulius Sondeckis, conductor | ||
| 1985-04-20 | Première: Concerto Grosso No. 3, Moscow Oleg Krysa and Tatiana Grindenko, violins – Lithuanian Chamber Orchestra – Saulius Sondeckis, conductor | ||
| 1985-06-02 | Première: String Trio, Moscow Oleg Krysa, violin – Fyodor Druzhinin., viola – Valentin Feigin, violoncello | ||
| 1985-08 | Première: (K)ein Sommernachtsctraum, Salzburg, Slazburg Festival ORF Orchestra – Leopold Hager, conductor | ||
| 1985-07-19 | Suffers his first stroke at the Black Sea resort of Pitsunda. Three times he is pronounced clinically dead, but he rallied. He gradually returns to work. | ||
| 1985-09 | Resumes his work on Cello Concerto No. 1 | ||
| 1985-11-07 | Première: Music for an Imaginary Play, Moscow, Great Hall of the Conservatoire Ensemble of Soloists of the USSR Ministry of Culture State Symphony Orchestra – Gennadi Rozhdestvensky, conductor | ||
| 1986 | [Ivashkin: Completes the ballet Peer Gynt] | ||
| 1986 | First year of Mikhail Gorbachov’s perestroika and glasnost’. | ||
| 1986-01-09 | Première: Concerto for Viola and Orchestra, Amsterdam Yuri Bashmet, viola – Koninklink Concertgebouworkest – Lukas Vis, conductor | ||
| 1986-01-12 | [Ivashkin: Yuri Bashmet performs the Viola Concerto in Amsterdam, but Schnittke is not well enough to attend.] | ||
| 1986-02-05 | Première: Sonata for Violin and Chamber Orchestra, Moscow Oleg Kagan, violin – Lithuanian Chamber Orchestra – Saulius Sondeckis, conductor | ||
| 1986-03-16 | Première: Symphony No. 4, chamber version, Moscow Ensemble of Soloists of the Bolshoi Theatre Orchestra and Chamber Choir – Alexander Lazarev, conductor | ||
| 1986-05-07 | Schnittke (now always accompanied by his wife) is present at… | Première: Concerto No. 1 for Violoncello and Orchestra, Munich Natalia Gutman, violoncello – Munich Philharmonic Orchestra – Eri Klas, conductor | |
| 1986-06-11 | Première: Concerto for Mixed Choir, complete work, Moscow USSR State Chamber Choir – Valery Polyansky, conductor | ||
| 1986-07-27 | Play: Lord of the Flies, after William Golding’s novel, music by A. Schnittke and D. Pokrovsky | Première: Leningrad, Small Drama Theatre Lev Dodin (director) | |
| 1986-09-05 | Play: The Beggar or Sand’s Death, by Yuri Olesha | Première: Moscow, Miniature Theatre Mikhail Levitin (director) | |
| 1987 | Epilogue from “Peer Gynt”, for orchestra and mixed choir – vocalize (tape) | ||
| 1987 | Trio Sonata, for string orchestra (arrangement of the String Trio by Yuri Bashmet) | ||
| 1987 | Suite in Old Style, for chamber orchestra (arrangement of the Suite in Old Style for violin and piano by Vladimir Spivakov and Vladimir Milman) | ||
| 1987 | Quasi una Sonata, for violin and chamber orchestra (arrangement of Sonata No. 2 for Violin and Piano) | ||
| 1987 | Sonata No. 1, for piano, dedicated to Vladimir Feltsman | ||
| 1987 | Arrangement: Alban Berg, Canon "An das frankfurter Opernhaus" (arrangement of the likenamed work by Alban Berg), for violin and strings | ||
| 1987 | Numerous performances of Schnittke’s music in the West, as well as in Russia. The music from Peer Gynt is first performed by the Hamburg Symphony Orchestra in 1987, conducted by Rozhdestvensky. | ||
| 1987 | Schnittke resumes contact with Rostropovich, who asks him to write a cello concerto, a symphony, and an opera for him. More frequent visits to Germany, not only because of performances but also for discussion with the Sikorski publishing firm. Elected member of the Royal Academy in Stockhom. | ||
| 1987 | Première: Trio Sonata, Moscow Chamber Ensemble of Soloists – Yuri Bashmet, conductor | ||
| 1987-04-27 | Première: Epilogue from “Peer Gynt”, Hamburg Philharmonisches Staatsorchester Hamburg – Gennadi Rozhdestvensky, conductor | ||
| 1987-06-10 | Première: Quasi una Sonata, Milan Gidon Kremer, violin – Orpheus Chamber Orchestra | ||
| 1987-08-01 | Première: Arrangement: Alban Berg, Canon "An das frankfurter Opernhaus" (version for violin and strings), Dartington Mark Lubotsky, | ||
| 1988 | Leaves VAAP (Soviet Agency for Authors’ Rights). | ||
| 1988 | In Boston for a festival of Soviet music. | ||
| 1988 | Peer Gynt, ballet in three acts by John Neumeier based on Henrik Ibsen’s drama | ||
| 1988 | Four Aphorisms, for orchestra | ||
| 1988 | Concerto Grosso No. 4 – Symphony No. 5 | ||
| 1988 | Concerto for Piano Four Hands and Chamber Orchestra, dedicated to Viktoria Postnikova and Irina Schnittke | ||
| 1988 | Drei Gedichte von Viktor Schnittke, for tenor and piano (in German) | ||
| 1988 | Twelve Penitential Psalms, for mixed choir (in Russian) | ||
| 1988 | Piano Quartet, commissioned by the Kuhmo Chamber Music Festival, dedicated to Oleg Krysa, based on a fragment for piano quartet by the 16-year old Gustav Mahler. There is also an arrangement for violin, viola, violoncello, and string orchestra by Alexander Asteriades. | ||
| 1988 | Klingende Buchstaben, for solo violoncello, dedicated to Alexander Ivashkin on the occasion of his 40 th birthday | ||
| 1988 | Film: The Balcony, produced by Kazakhfilm, K. Sadykov (director) | ||
| 1988 | TV: Pushkin's Poetry, music by Alfred Schnittke and Dmitri Shostakovich, produced by TV film – Ludmila Chmelnitskaya (director) | ||
| 1988-05-22 | Première: Sonata No. 1 (for piano), New York Vladimir Feltsman | ||
| 1988-05 | Play: I Am Poor Solo, by Viktor Korsia | Première: Moscow, State University Theatre Yevgeni Slavutin (director) | |
| 1988-06-10 | Première: Der Sonnengesang des Franz von Assisi, London, Almeida Festival New London Cha,ber Choir and Ensemble – James Wood, conductor | ||
| 1988-07-29 | Première: Piano Quartet, Kuhmo Oleg Krysa, violin – Toby Hoffman, viola – Robert Cohen, violoncello – Vassily Lobanov, piano | ||
| 1988-08-21 | Première: Suite in Old Style, for chamber orchestra, Kiel Moscow Virtuosos – Vladimir Spivakov, conductor | ||
| 1988-09-18 | Première: Four Aphorisms, Berlin Ensemble of Soloists of The Bolshoi Theatre Moscow – Alexander Lazarev, conductor | ||
| 1988-09-21 | Play: The Mandate, by Nikolai Erdman, music by A. Schnittke and D. Shostakovich | Premiêre: Moscow, Central Theatre of the Soviet Army Aleksandr Burdonsky (director) | |
| 1988-11-10 | Première: Concerto Grosso No. 4 – Symphony No. 5, Amsterdam Koninklijk Concertgebouworkest – Ricardo Chailly, conductor | ||
| 1988-12-26 | Première: Twelve Penitential Psalms, Moscow USSR state Chamber Choir – Valery Polyansky, conductor | ||
| 1988-12-28 | Première: Klingende Buchstaben, Moscow Alexander Ivashkin | ||
| 1989 | Berlin wall is dismantled. | ||
| 1989 | Back in America for the… | New York première of the Piano Sonata No. 1. Major festival of Schnittke’s music in Stockholm. | |
| 1989 | A special fellowship in Berlin enables Schnittke to reside there for a year. | ||
| 1989 | Monologue, for viola and strings | ||
| 1989 | Opening Verse for the First Festival Sunday, for mixed choir and organ (in German) | ||
| 1989 | “3 x 7”, for clarinet, horn, trombone, harpsichord, violin, violoncello and double bass | ||
| 1989 | String Quartet No. 4, commissioned by the Vienna Concert Hall Society | ||
| 1989 | Film: Visitor of a Museum, produced by Lenfilm – Konstantin Lpoushinskky (director) | ||
| 1989 | TV: And a Light is Shining Trhough the Darkness, play by Mikhail Kosakov after Lev Tolstoy's novel, produced by TV film – Mikhail Kosakov (director) | ||
| 1989 | TV: Incident at Vichy, play by Mikhail Kosakov after Arthur Miller's novel, produced by TV film – Mikhail Kosakov (director) | ||
| 1989-01-22 | Première: Peer Gynt, Hamburg, Hamburgische Staatsoper Philharmonische Staatsoper Hamburg – Eri Klas, conductor û The Baller of Hamburschiche Staatsoper – John Neumeier, choreographer | ||
| 1989-04-22 | Première: “3 x 7”, Witten Ensemble of instrumentalists – Johannes Harneit, conductor | ||
| 1989-06-03 | Play: A Feast in Time of Plague, by Alexander Pushkin | Première: Moscow, Taganka Theatre Yuri Lyubimov (director) | |
| 1989-06-04 | Première: Monologue, Bonn Moscow Soloists Ensemble – Yuri Bashmet, viola/conductor | ||
| 1989-07-02 | Première: Opening Verse for the First Festival Sunday, Lockenhaus/Austria Konzertchor Darmstadt – Wolfgang Seeliger, conductor | ||
| 1989-10-21 | Première: String Quartet No. 4, Vienna Alban Berg Quartet | ||
| 1990 | Schnittke moves to Hamburg, where he is offered a composition class at the Hamburg Hochschule für Musik. | ||
| 1990 | Travel from Berlin to London for the two-week festival “Schnittke: A Celebration” | ||
| 1990 | Concerto No. 2 for Violoncello and Orchestra, dedicated to Mstislav Rostropovich | ||
| 1990 | Moza-Art à la Mozart, for 8 flutes and harp (after sketches by W. A. Mozart, K. 416d) | ||
| 1990 | Madrigal in Memoriam Oleg Kagan, for solo violin or solo violoncello | ||
| 1990 | Three Fragments, for harpsichord | ||
| 1990 | Five Aphorisms, for piano, dedicated to Joseph Brodsky and Alexander Slobodyanik | ||
| 1990 | Sonata No. 2, for piano, dedicated to Irina Schnittke | ||
| 1990 | Two Cadenzas, to W. A. Mozart's Piano Concerto in B flat major K. 39 | ||
| 1990 | Film: Russia — Love For This Country, produced by Shigoto Film Productions and Mosfilm – Alexander Mitta (director) | ||
| 1990-04-18 | Première: Concerto for Piano four Hands and Chamber Orchestra, Moscow Viktoria Postnikova, Irina Schnittke, piano – USSR Ministry of Culture state Symphony Orchestra – Gennadi Rozhdestvensky, conductor | ||
| 1990-05-27 | Première: Concerto No. 2 for Violoncello and Orchestra, Evian Mstislav Rostropovich, violoncello – Symphony Orchestra of the Curtis Institue of Philadelphia – Theodor Guschlbauer, conductor | ||
| 1990-06-14 | Première: Three Fragments, Hamburg Günter Jena | ||
| 1990-08-02 | Première: Moza-Art à la Mozart, Salzburg András Adorján, Wolfgang zchulz and students of the 1990 Summer Academy of the Mozarteum, flutes – Anna Lelkes, harp | ||
| 1990-09-22 | Première: Eight Songs from the Incidental Music to Friedrich Schiller’s “Don Carlos”, Bad Urach (‘Schiller in Russia’) E Ponyakanin, baritone – L. Orfenova, piano | ||
| 1990-10 | Unification of the Germany. | ||
| 1990-10-21 | Première: Five Aphorisms, New York Alexander Slobodyanik (with poems by Jospeh Brodsky recited between the movements) | ||
| 1990-11-10 | Première: Arrangement: P. Tchaikovsky, Queen of Spades, Karlsruhe Badischer Staatsopernchor – Badische Staatskapelle – Myron Romanul, conductor – Yuri Lubimov, director | ||
| 1991 | Sutartines, for percussion, organ and strings | ||
| 1991 | Concerto Grosso No. 5, for violin and orchestra, commissioned by the Carnegie Hall Corporation for the Cleveland Orchestra on the ocaasion of the Carnegie Hall Centenary | ||
| 1991 | Festlicher Cantus, for violin, piano, mixed choir and orchestra (in Russian), dedicated to Gennadi rozhdestvensky on the occasion of his 60 th birthday | ||
| 1991 | Life with an Idiot, opera in 2 acts (4 scenes) by Viktor Yerofeyev after his likenamed short story (in Russian) | ||
| 1991 | Herrn Alfredd Schlee zum 90. Geburstag, for solo viola | ||
| 1991/94 | Historia von D. Johann Fausten, opera in 3 acts, a prologue and an epilogue by Jörg Morgener and Alfred Schnittke based on the likenamed book published by Johann Spies in 1587 (in German, the third acr also in a Russian version by Victor Schnittke). Electronic music by Andrei Schnittke. | ||
| 1991-94 | 26 new works are written and performed including 3 operas, 3 symphonies, 8 further compositions for orchestra, chamber music, works for choir, songs, and piano pieces. | ||
| 1991-02-01 | Première: Sonata No. 2 (for piano), Lübeck Irina Schnittke | ||
| 1991-02-13 | Première: Sutartines, Vilnius Lithuanian Chamber Orchestra – Saulius Sondeckis, conductor | ||
| 1991-04-14 | Première: Two Cadenzas, to W. A. Mozart's Piano Concerto in B flat major K. 39, Hamburg (in John Neumeier's ballet "Fenster zu Mozart") Carol Tainton | ||
| 1991-05-02 | Première: Concerto Grosso No. 5, New York [Ivashkin: Cleveland] Gidon Kremer, violin – Alexander Slobodyanik, piano – The Cleveland Orchestra – Christoph von Dohnányi, conductor Schnittke music is now regularly played in America. | ||
| 1991-05-04 | Première: Festlicher Cantus, Moscow Alexander Rozhdestvensky, violin – Viktoria Postnikova,piano – USSR Ministry of Culture State Symphony Orchestra – Gennadi Rozhdestvensky, conductor | ||
| 1991-07 | Suffers a second stroke. Refuses the Lenin Prize. | ||
| 1991-07-13 | Première: Madrigal in Memoriam Oleg Kagan, violoncello version, Wildbad Kreuth Natalia Gutman | ||
| 1991-11-18 | Première: Herrn Alfred Schlee zum 90. Geburstag, Wien, Konzerthaus Garth Knox | ||
| 1991-12-26 | Dissolution of the USSR. | ||
| 1992 | Accepts Praernium Imperiale (Tokyo) | ||
| 1992 | Together with his son, Andrei, composes his penultimate film score, The Last Days of St. Petersburg. | ||
| 1992 | Symphony No. 6, commissioned by and dedicated to The National Symphony Orchestra and Mstislav Rostropovich | ||
| 1992 | Agnus Dei, for 2 sopranos, contralto, female choir and chamber orchestra (part of the cooperative work (Mass for Peace”) (in Latin) | ||
| 1992 | Piano Trio, arrangement of the String Trio | ||
| 1992 | Musica Nostalgica, for violoncello and piano, dedicated to Mstislav Rostropovich | ||
| 1992 | Sonata No. 3, for piano | ||
| 1992 | Film: The Last Days of St. Petersburg (silent movie of 1927), produced by Meshrabprom-Rus – Vsevolod I. Pudovkin (director) – Nathan Zarhy, script – Anatoli Golovnia (camera) – Music by Alfred Schnittke and Andrei Schnittke, commissioned by the ZDF TV Channel | ||
| 1992 | Suite from Film: The Last Days of St. Petersburg (compilation by Frank Strobel) | ||
| 1992 | Première: Musica Nostalgica, Tokyo Mstislav Rostropovich | ||
| 1992-04-13 | Schnittke is present in Amsterdam when… | Première: Life with an Idiot, Amsterdam Rotterdams Philharmonisch Orkest – Mstislav Rostropovich, conductor – Boris Pokrovsky, director | |
| 1992-11-08 | Première: Film: The Last Days of St. Petersburg, Frankfurt Ensemble modern – Sabine Fues, soprano – members of the Figuralchor and the Jugendchor of the Hessische Rundfunk – Frank Strobel, conductor | ||
| 1993 | Hommage à Zhivago, musical allegory on motives of Boris Pasternak’s novel “Doctor Zhivago”, poems by Boris Pasternak, Alexander Blok and Andrei Vosnesenky, holy anthems and prayers (in Russian) | ||
| 1993 | Gesualdo, opera in 7 tableaux, a prologue and an epilogue by Richard Bletschacher (in German) | ||
| 1993 | Hommage à Grieg, arrangement of a fragment from the ballet Peer Gynt for orchestra | ||
| 1993 | Symphony No. 7, dedicated to Kurt Masur, commissioned by The New York Philharmonic | ||
| 1993 | Last film score… | Film: The Master and Margarita, Yuri Kara (director) | |
| 1993 | Concerto Grosso no. 6, for piano, violin and strings | ||
| 1993 | Mutter, fro mezzo-soprano and piano on a poem by Else Lasker-Schüler (in German), dedicated to Ulrich Eckhardt on the occasion of his 60 th birthday | ||
| 1993 | Epilogue from “Peer Gynt”, version for violoncello, piano and tape | ||
| 1993 | Improvisation, for violoncello solo, commissioned by the ‘Acanthes’ contest, October 1994, dedicated to Mstislav Rostropovich | ||
| 1993 | Suite from Film: The Master and Margarita (compilation by Frank Strobel) | ||
| 1993-01-07 | Travels to Moscow to receive the first Triumph Prize from the Russian Independent Foundation. | ||
| 1993-05-18 | Première: Hommage à Zhivago, Vienna, Odeon Hall Ensemble of the Taganka Theater Moscow – Yuri Lubimov, director – Andrej von Schlippe, stage designer | ||
| 1993-05-20 | Première: Epilogue from “Peer Gynt”, version for violoncello, piano and tape, Evian/France Mstislav Rostropovich, violoncello – Irina Schnittke | ||
| 1993-05-25 | Première: Piano Trio, Evian/France Mark Lubotsky, violin – Mstislav Rostropovich, violoncello – Irina Schnittke, piano | ||
| 1993-06-15 | Première: Hommage à Grieg, Bergen Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra – Dmitri Kitaenko, conductor | ||
| 1993-06-16 | Play: doctor Zhivago, after Boris Pasternak’s novel | Première: Moscow, Taganka Theatre Yuri Lyubimov (director) | |
| 1993-09-23 | In Moscow, attends the … | Première: Symphony No. 6, Moscow The National Symphony Orchestra, Washington – Mstislav Rostropovich, conductor | |
| 1994 | Numerous festivals and performances of Schnittke’s music around the world. | ||
| 1994 | Symphonic Prelude, for orchestra, commissioned by Philharmonisches Staatsorchester Hamburg | ||
| 1994 | Symphony No. 8, dedicated to Gennadi Rozhdestvensky and the Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra, commissioned by the Stockholm Concert Hall Foundation | ||
| 1994 | For Liverpool, for orchestra, commissioned by The Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Society with funds provided by the Art Council of England | ||
| 1994 | Concerto for Three, for violin, viola, violoncello and string orchestra (with piano), dedicated to Gidon Kremer, Yuri Bashmet and Mstislav Rostropovich | ||
| 1994 | Five Fragments Based on Paintings by Hieronymus Bosch, for tenor, violin, trombone, harpsichord, timpani and strings on texts by Aeschylus (German translation by J. G. Droysen) and Nicolaus Reusner (in German), dedicated to Vladimir Spivakov | ||
| 1994 | Lux Aeterna, for mixed choir and orchestra (in Latin), orchestration by Gennadi Rozhdestvensky, commissioned by the Internation Bach Academy Stuttgart as part of the cooperative work ‘Requiem of Reconciliation’ for Europäisches Musikfest Stuttgart | ||
| 1994 | Sonata No. 2 for Violoncello and Piano, dedicated to Mstislav Rostropovich | ||
| 1994 | Quartet for Four Percussionists | ||
| 1994 | Sonata No. 3 for Violin and Piano, dedicated to Mark Lubotsky | ||
| 1994 | Minuet, for violin, viola and violoncello. Originally composed as an encore for the first performance of the Concerto for Three, dedicated to Gidon Kremer, Yuri Bashmet and Mstislav Rostropovich | ||
| 1994 | Unfinished: Cantata, in five movements for counter-tenor and chamber orchestra on texts by Sebastian Brant [2], Peter Brueghel [4] and Jakob Böhme [5] (in German), commissioned by the London Sinfonietta. (Nos 1, 2, and a considerable portion of No. 3 in full score, nos. 4 and 5 only sketches) | ||
| 1994-01-11 | Première: Concerto Grosso No. 6, Moscow Viktoria Postnikova, piano – Alexander Rozhdestvensky, violin – Moscow State Philharmonic Orchestra – Gennadi Rozhdestvensky, conductor | ||
| 1994-01-27 | Première: Quartet for Four Percussionists, Hamburg Rüdiger Funk, Claudio von Hassel, Frank Polter, Jörg Künzer | ||
| 1994-02-10 | Makes his last trip to America for… | Première: Symphony No. 7, New York Glenn Dicterov, solo violin – The New York Philharmonic – Kurt Masur, conductor | |
| 1994-04-14 | Première: Suite from Film: Dead Souls, Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra of Bergen – Gennadi Rozhdestvensky, conductor | ||
| 1994-05-28 | Première: Mutter, Berlin Gundula Hintz, mezzo-soprano – Maija Nabering, piano | ||
| 1994-06 | Third and fourth strokes within days of each other. | ||
| 1994-06-19 | Première: Improvisation, Paris Mstislav Rostropovich | ||
| 1994-10-10 | Première: Sonata No. 3 for Violin and Piano, Moscow Mark Lubotsky, violin – Irina Schnittke, piano | ||
| 1994-10-19 | Première: Concerto for Three & Minuet, Moscow, Great Hall of the Conservatoire [Ivaskin: at a festival of Schnittke’s music] Gidon Kremer, violin – Yuri Bashmet, viola – Mstislav Rostropovich, violoncello – Russian National Symphony – Michail Pletniev, conductor | ||
| 1994-10-20 | Première: Suite from Film: Little Tragedies, Heidelberg, 9 th Internationales Festival für Neue Musik ASM-Ensemble Moscow, Alexei Vinogradov, conductor | ||
| 1994-10-30 | Première: Three Sacred Hymns, Stockholm Russian State Symphony Capella, Valery Poliansky, conductor | ||
| 1994-11-06 | Première: Symphonic Prelude, Hamburg Philharmonisches Staatsorchester Hamburg – Gerd Albrecht, conductor | ||
| 1994-11-10 | Première: Symphony No. 8, Stockholm Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra – Gennadi Rozhdestvensky, conductor | ||
| 1994-11-11 | Première: Five Fragments Based on Paintings by Hieronymus Bosch, London, Barbican Hall Paul Charles Clarke, tenor – Tasmin Little, violin – Christian Lindberg, trombone – John Constable, harpsichord – John Chimes, timpani – the London Sinfonietta – Markus Stenz, conductor | ||
| 1994-11-17 | Première: Sonata No. 2 for Violoncello and Piano, London Mstislav Rostropovich, violoncello – Irina Schnittke, piano | ||
| 1994-11-24 | Schnittke listens to a tape of the performance of the Symphony No. 8 on his 60 th birthday, while in a Hamburg hospital. | ||
| 1995-01 | Makes his last trip to Moscow | ||
| 1995 | Stays in hospital until September | ||
| 1995 | Sonatina, for piano four hands | ||
| 1995-05-26 | Première: Gesualdo, Vienna, Staatsoper Orchestra of the Staatsoper Wien – Mstislav Rostropovich, conductor – Cesare Lievi, director | ||
| 1995-06-22 | Première: Historia von D. Johann Fausten, Hamburg, Hamburgische Staatsoper Philharmonisches Staatsorchester Hamburg – Gerd Albrecht, conductor – John Dew, director | ||
| 1995-08-16 | Première: Lux Aeterna, Stuttgart Gächinger Kantorei Stuttgart and the Cracow Chamber Choir – The Israel Philharmonic Orchestra – Helmuth Rilling, conductor | ||
| 1995-09-23 | Première: For Liverpool, Liverpool Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra – Libor Pesek, conductor | ||
| 1995-12-11 | Première: Agnus Dei, Oslo Oslo Philharmonic Choir – Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra – Mstislav Rostropovich, conductor | ||
| 1996-1998 | In Hamburg, Composes slowly with left hand. | Produces Symphony No. 9, Piece for Viola and Orchestra, and a work (variations) for string quartet. | |
| 1996-03-14 | Première: Sonata No. 3 (for piano), Tel Aviv Boris Berman | ||
| 1997 | Suite from Film: The Agony (compilation by Frank Strobel) | ||
| 1997-01-30 | Première: Suites from Film: The Master and Margarita & The Agony & My Past and My Thoughts, Hamburg Hamburger Symphoniker – Frank Strobel, conductor | ||
| 1997-02-14 | Première: Two Short Pieces, Amsterdam Friedrich Lips | ||
| 1997/98 | Unfinished: Symphony No. 9 (Gennadi Rozhdestvensky arranged the composed material in order to obtain a performable version which was never officially accepted by the composer) | ||
| 1998-06-19 | Première: Unfinished: Symphony No. 9 (Rozhdestvensky's version), Moscow | ||
| 1998-07-04 | Suffers his final stroke | ||
| 1998-08-03 | Dies in the hospital in Hamburg. | ||
| 1998-08-10 | Thousands attend his funeral in Moscow. | ||
| 1999 | Première: Arrangement: D. Shostakovich, Two Preludes for Small Orchestra (recording on Chandos) Russian State Symphony Orchestra – Alexander Ivashkin, conductor | ||
| 1999-10-23 | Première: Fugue, New York Oleh Krysa | ||
| 2000 | Suite from Film: My Past and My Thoughts (compilation by Frank Strobel) | ||
| 2001-02-13 | Premère: Unfinished: Cantata (movements 1-3), London The London Sinfonietta – Martyn Brabbins, conductor |