Shnitke [Shnéetke] (Schnittke), Al'fred Garriyevich (11–24–1934, Engels [former capital of the republic of Volga Germans, now Saratov distr.]). Shnitke's father was a journalist and translator and his mother a teacher of German and a staff member of the M. German-language newspaper Neues Leben. In 1946 they moved to Vienna, where his father was involved in the production of a Russian-language newspaper, and Shnitke began systematic piano study with a local teacher, Charlotte Ruber. He was…