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Edison Vasilevich Denisov
Эдисон Денисов
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6 April 1929 - 24 November 1996
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Edison Denisov is a gifted Soviet composer who drew his inspiration from the works of Stravinsky, Bela Bartok and Prokofiev, Russian folklore, French contemporary music and avant-garde, in particular, in the works of his German colleague Karlheinz Stockhausen. Denisov is a native of Tomsk, he was born on April 6, 1929. Despite the great interest in music, he finally decided for himself that he would become a composer only as a student of the Faculty of Physics and Mathematics of Tomsk State University,
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Edison Denisov is a gifted Soviet composer who drew his inspiration from the works of Stravinsky, Bela Bartok and Prokofiev, Russian folklore, French contemporary music and avant-garde, in particular, in the works of his German colleague Karlheinz Stockhausen.
Denisov is a native of Tomsk, he was born on April 6, 1929. Despite the great interest in music, he finally decided for himself that he would become a composer only as a student of the Faculty of Physics and Mathematics of Tomsk State University, where he entered in 1946 simultaneously with enrollment in the music school. The final choice of the talented young composer was helped by Dmitry Shostakovich, to whom the young man in 1950 sent one of his works, with which he won the student competition. Only after his approval Edison went to enter the Moscow Conservatory.
Denisov’s career at home was not very successful – his works were considered “avant-garde” and did not give them a wide road, while abroad the composer was assigned the title of “Mozart of the 20th century”. Especially serious complications for his work came after the criticism of him and other six colleagues, arranged by the composer Tikhon Khrennikov at the VI Congress of the Union of Composers of the USSR in 1979 – his music was banned in his native country for almost ten years, before the beginning of Gorbachev’s reforms.
In 1994, Edison was in a very serious car accident, for the treatment of the consequences of which he was taken to Paris, where the composer was incredibly popular and where he received financial support. Denisov died two years later on November 24, 1996 in Paris, where he became an honorary citizen and was buried.