Composer Schnitka Brief Biography
His father, Harry Viktorovich Shnitka, was born in Frankfurt-on-Main, where his parents moved from Libava in the year. In the year, some sources indicate a year together with his parents moved to Moscow, in the year - to Pokrovsk, where he joined the party and worked as a journalist in Soviet German publications; Stories and correspondence from the front in Russian printed in the newspaper Bolshevik.