* 1998 – Alfred Schnittke, Russian composer ( b. 1934 )

Both Dmitri Shostakovich ( Hamlet, 1964 ) and Alfred Schnittke ( Symphony No. 8, 1998 ) wrote works that use the harpsichord as part of the orchestral texture.

* 1934 – Alfred Schnittke, Russian composer ( d. 1998 )

In the 20th century the traditions of Russian opera were developed by many composers including Sergei Rachmaninoff in his works The Miserly Knight and Francesca da Rimini, Igor Stravinsky in Le Rossignol, Mavra, Oedipus rex, and The Rake's Progress, Sergei Prokofiev in The Gambler, The Love for Three Oranges, The Fiery Angel, Betrothal in a Monastery, and War and Peace ; as well as Dmitri Shostakovich in The Nose and Lady Macbeth of the Mtsensk District, Edison Denisov in L ' écume des jours, and Alfred Schnittke in Life with an Idiot and Historia von D. Johann Fausten.

* August 3 – Alfred Schnittke, Russian-born composer ( b. 1934 )

* November 24 – Alfred Schnittke, Volga German composer ( d. 1998 )

Other composers of major violin concertos include Jean Sibelius, Ralph Vaughan Williams, Walton, Benjamin Britten, Frank Martin, Carl Nielsen, Paul Hindemith, Alfred Schnittke, György Ligeti, Philip Glass, John Adams, and Kan-no.

His creations include such masterpieces as Sergei Prokofiev's Symphony-Concerto, Dmitri Shostakovich's two cello concertos, Benjamin Britten's Cello-Symphony ( which emphasizes, as its title suggests, the equal importance of soloist and orchestra ), Henri Dutilleux ' Tout un monde lointain, Witold Lutosławski's cello concerto, Dmitri Kabalevsky's two cello concertos, Aram Khachaturian's Concerto-Rhapsody, Arvo Pärt's Pro et Contra, Alfred Schnittke, André Jolivet and Krzysztof Penderecki second cello concertos, Sofia Gubaidulina's Canticles of the Sun, Luciano Berio's Ritorno degli Snovidenia, Leonard Bernstein's Three Meditations, James MacMillan's cello concerto and Olivier Messiaen's Concert à quatre ( a quadruple concerto for cello, piano, oboe, flute and orchestra ).

In the 20th century Russian music was credited with such influential composers as Dmitri Shostakovich, Sergei Prokofiev, Sergei Rachmaninoff, Igor Stravinski, Georgy Sviridov, and Alfred Schnittke.

* The Dreyfus Trilogy by George Whyte ( in collaboration with Luciano Berio, Jost Meier and Alfred Schnittke ) comprising the opera Dreyfus-Die Affäre ( Deutsche Oper Berlin, 8 May 1994 ; Theater Basle, 16 October 1004 ; The Dreyfus Affair New York City Opera, April 1996 ); the dance drama Dreyfus-J ' accuse ( Oper der Stadt Bonn, 4 September 1994 ) and the musical satire Rage et Outrage ( Arte, April 1994 ; Zorn und Schande, Arte 1994 ; Rage and Outrage Channel 4, May 1994.

* Alfred Schnittke

Other composers such as Béla Bartók, Luciano Berio, Benjamin Britten, Aaron Copland, Olivier Messiaen, Arvo Pärt, Walter Piston, Ned Rorem, Alfred Schnittke, Dmitri Shostakovich, Igor Stravinsky, and even some jazz composers such as Yusef Lateef and Bill Evans used serialism only for some of their compositions or only for some sections of pieces.

Concert goers were over the ensuing years to see new works not only by Britten himself, but by composers such as Lennox Berkeley, Richard Rodney Bennett, Elliott Carter, Hans Werner Henze, Alfred Schnittke, Toru Takemitsu, Michael Tippett, Mark-Anthony Turnage and Malcolm Williamson, many of whom came to the Festival as composer-in-residence.

Image: Alfred-Schnittke_grave. jpg | Alfred Schnittke

Rostropovich either commissioned or was the recipient of compositions by many composers including Dmitri Shostakovich, Sergei Prokofiev, Benjamin Britten, Henri Dutilleux, Olivier Messiaen, Witold Lutosławski, Luciano Berio, Krzysztof Penderecki, Leonard Bernstein, Alfred Schnittke, Aram Khachaturian, Ástor Piazzolla, Sofia Gubaidulina, Arthur Bliss and Lopes Graça.

* Alfred Schnittke becomes a student of Evgeny Golubev.

More recently, notable string trios have been written by Murray Adaskin, Alain Bancquart, Robert Carl, Pascal Dusapin, Donald Erb, Karlheinz Essl, Brian Ferneyhough, Berthold Goldschmidt, Sofia Gubaidulina, Bertold Hummel, Talivaldis Kenins, Ernst Krenek, Helmut Lachenmann, Paul Lansky, Ljubica Marić, Krzysztof Meyer, Krzysztof Penderecki, Wayne Peterson, Wolfgang Rihm, Bogusław Schaeffer, Alfred Schnittke, Karlheinz Stockhausen, Graham Waterhouse, Charles Wuorinen, La Monte Young, Iannis Xenakis, and Ellen Taaffe Zwilich.

* Alfred Schnittke: String Trio ( 1985 )

In the twentieth century, the concerto grosso has been used by composers such as Igor Stravinsky, Ernest Bloch, Ralph Vaughan Williams, Bohuslav Martinů, Malcolm Williamson, Henry Cowell, Alfred Schnittke, Heitor Villa-Lobos, Andrei Eshpai, Eino Tamberg, Krzysztof Penderecki, Jean Françaix and Philip Glass.

Alfred Schnittke by Reginald Gray ( artist ) | Reginald Gray

A recent addition to the collection is a portrait of the Russian composer Alfred Schnittke by Reginald Gray.

More recently, composer Alfred Schnittke provided controversial cadenzas with a characteristically 20th-century flavor ; violinist Gidon Kremer has recorded the concerto with the Schnittke cadenzas.

* Alfred Schnittke

Finally, we may also mention the several members of the self-consciously `` neoliberal '' movement that developed at the University of Chicago and is heavily indebted philosophically to the creative work of Alfred North Whitehead.

Legend also has it that the young Alfred spent time in Ireland seeking healing.

Although not mentioned by Asser or by the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, Alfred probably also paid the Vikings cash to leave, much as the Mercians were to do in the following year.

Alfred ’ s actions also suggest a finely honed system of scouts and messengers.

This is also the period in which almost all chroniclers agree that the Saxon people of pre-unification England submitted to Alfred.

Alfred also tried his hand at naval design.

The latter manuscript was severely damaged in the 18th and 19th centuries, and the authorship of the verse has been much disputed ; but likely it also is by Alfred.

King Alfred's ( Alfred the Great ) translation of Orosius ' history of the world uses Angelcynn (- kin ) to describe England and the English people ; Bede used Angelfolc (- folk ); there are also such forms as Engel, Englan ( the people ), Englaland, and Englisc, all showing i-mutation.

Other views of God affirmed by members of the Conservative movement include Kabbalistic mysticism ; Hasidic panentheism ( neo-Hasidism, Jewish Renewal ); limited theism ( as in Harold Kushner's When Bad Things Happen to Good People ); and organic thinking in the fashion of Alfred North Whitehead and Charles Hartshorne, also known as process theology ( such as Rabbis Max Kaddushin, William E. Kaufman, or Bradley Shavit Artson ).

It was sometime after reading Socialism that Hayek began attending Ludwig von Mises ' private seminars, joining several of his university friends, including Fritz Machlup, Alfred Schutz, Felix Kaufmann, and Gottfried Haberler, who were also participating in Hayek's own, more general, private seminar.

Plate tectonics also provided a mechanism for Alfred Wegener's theory of continental drift, in which the continents move across the surface of the Earth over geologic time.

It was first published in Sexual Behavior in the Human Male ( 1948 ) by Alfred Kinsey, Wardell Pomeroy and others, and was also prominent in the complementary work Sexual Behavior in the Human Female ( 1953 ).

“ One finds in the biblical text ,” writes Alfred Sendrey, “ a sudden and unexplained upsurge of large choirs and orchestras, consisting of thoroughly organized and trained musical groups, which would be virtually inconceivable without lengthy, methodical preparation .” This has led some scholars to believe that the prophet Samuel was the patriarch of a school, which taught not only prophets and holy men, but also sacred-rite musicians.

The young Weber and his brother Alfred, who also became a sociologist and economist, thrived in this intellectual atmosphere.

The need for a modified view of omnipotence was also articulated by Alfred North Whitehead in the early 20th century and expanded upon by the aforementioned philosopher Charles Hartshorne.

Proponents of this theory also claim that Alfred the Great was a descendant of Shem because he claimed to descend from Sceafa, a marooned man who came to Britain on a boat after a flood.

The director also cites Alfred Hitchcock ’ s The Wrong Man and Jack Hazan ’ s A Bigger Splash as inspiration for his camerawork in the movie.

Morse and his partner Alfred Vail also invented morse code ).

Alfred also reformed the administration of justice, issued a new law code and championed a revival of scholarship and education.

* La nuit de mai – poème symphonique for tenor and orchestra after Alfred de Musset, Paris 1886 ( also performed and recorded in 1990 and – with Plácido Domingo – in 2010 )

The Encomium Emmae Reginae also describes Edward the Confessor and Alfred Aetheling as the sons of Canute, though the modern term would be step-sons.

Director Alfred Hitchcock also saw the 1950 screen test and would become one of Kelly's last mentors.

His contemporary Alfred Russel Wallace also noted these variations and the geographical separations between different forms leading to the study of biogeography.

Alfred Hitchcock almost single-handedly ushered in the spy-adventure genre, also firmly establishing the use of action-oriented " set pieces " like the famous crop-duster scene and the Mount Rushmore finale in North by Northwest.