Electronic music composer, People's Artist of Russia Eduard Artemyev turns 80 today, RIA Novosti reports. He was born in 1937 in Novosibirsk and then studied composition at the Moscow Conservatory.
He started using one of the first synthesizers at the very beginning of 1960s, when electronic music in Russia was completely unexplored. It was so-called ANS photoelectronic synthesizer developed by the Soviet engineer Evgeny Murzin. Eduard Artemyev is thought to be a pioneer of electronic music in USSR.
Artemyev is well-known as an electronic music composer but the main popularity came from the film music. Composer is particularly famous for working with one of the greatest filmmakers of all time Andrei Tarkovsky. Music of Eduard Artemyev sounds in film scores of Tarkovsky's Solaris, Zerkalo and Stalker.
At the beginning of 1970 Artemyev started working with world-famous Russian directors Andrei Konchalovsky and Nikita Mikhalkov. With Konchalovsky Artemyev worked both in Russia and in Hollywood.
Eduard Artemyev's composition Campaign or Death of the hero written for Konchalovsky's Siberiade was used at 2014 Winter Olympics opening ceremony in Sochi. The music theme from Mikhalkov's At Home Among Strangers was played at the closing ceremony.
Eduard Artemyev has received several state prizes and many professional prizes, including Golden Mask. Nika, White Elephant.
Russian President has congratulated the composer, marking his extraordinary talent, and originality of the artistic expression.
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