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Eduard Nikolaevich Artemev
Эдуард Артемьев
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30 November 1937 - 29 December 2022
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Eduard Nikolaevich Artemyev is a Russian composer, author of numerous works performed in the genre of electronic music, and soundtracks for films. He was born in Novosibirsk on November 30, 1937. From the age of seven, the future composer lived in Moscow, where he received an excellent musical education, graduating from the Moscow Conservatory in 1960. His first composition, composed on the synthesizer "ANS", he wrote in 1967, which made him one of the pioneers of electronic music. Artemyev became
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Eduard Nikolaevich Artemyev is a Russian composer, author of numerous works performed in the genre of electronic music, and soundtracks for films.
He was born in Novosibirsk on November 30, 1937. From the age of seven, the future composer lived in Moscow, where he received an excellent musical education, graduating from the Moscow Conservatory in 1960. His first composition, composed on the synthesizer "ANS", he wrote in 1967, which made him one of the pioneers of electronic music.
Artemyev became famous thanks to his collaboration with film director Andrei Tarkovsky in the 1970s, for which he composed music for his famous paintings.
Solaris "Mirror" and "Stalker." Equally successful was his work on the music for the films of Andrei Konchalovsky ("Siberiad") and Nikita Mikhalkov. With the latter, he was connected by a long-term business partnership, Eduard Nikolaevich became the author of music for almost all his numerous films, including “The Slave of Love”.
“His own among strangers, a stranger among his own.” "Unfinished Play for Mechanical Piano", "Five Evenings", "Urga: Territory of Love", "Siberian Barber", "Weary of the Sun" and many others.
The music of Eduard Artemyev became so famous in the expanses of the former USSR that many of his melodies have long been considered classics. This made it possible to include the musical themes of Eduard Nikolaevich in the opening and closing ceremony of the Sochi Olympics.