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On 21 July 1985, Schnittke suffered a stroke, which left him in a coma. He was declared clinically dead on several occasions, but recovered and continued to compose. In 1990, Schnittke left the Soviet Union and settled in Hamburg, Germany. He continued to hold dual German-Russian citizenship. However, his health remained poor. He suffered several more strokes before his death on 3 August 1998, in Hamburg, at the age of 63. He was buried,

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