Eduard Nikolaevich Artemyev (Russian: Эдуард Николаевич Артемьев) (born 30.11.1937) is a Russia composer of electronic music and film scores. Outside of Russia is mostly known for his film scores from films such as Solaris, Stalker or Burnt by the Sun.
Artemyev was born in Novosibirsk and studied at the Moscow Conservatory under Yuri Shaporin. His interest in electronic music and synthesizers began after his graduation in the 1960, when electroni...
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Eduard Nikolaevich Artemyev (Russian: Эдуард Николаевич Артемьев) (born 30.11.1937) is a Russia composer of electronic music and film scores. Outside of Russia is mostly known for his film scores from films such as Solaris, Stalker or Burnt by the Sun.
Artemyev was born in Novosibirsk and studied at the Moscow Conservatory under Yuri Shaporin. His interest in electronic music and synthesizers began after his graduation in the 1960, when electronic music was still in its infancy. He wrote his first composition in 1967 on one of the first synthesizers, the ANS synthesizer developed by the Soviet engineer Evgeny Murzin. He was thus one of the first composrs and a pioneer of electronic music. His collaboration with the film director Andrei Tarkovsky in the 1970s made him well-known. He wrote the film scores for Tarkovsky's Solaris, Zerkalo and Stalker. Later he also wrote film scores for films by Andrei Konchalovsky and Nikita Mikhalkov. His film scores and his music received several...
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