Vyacheslav Petrovich Artyomov also Artemov is a Russian and Soviet

Soviet Union

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 composer.

Biography

Artyomov first studied physics at the Moscow University, then later studied music. He graduated from the Moscow Conservatory

Moscow Conservatory

The Moscow Conservatory is a higher musical education institution in Moscow, and the second oldest conservatory in Russia after St. Petersburg Conservatory. Along with the St...

 in 1968 where studied composition

Musical composition

Musical composition can refer to an original piece of music, the structure of a musical piece, or the process of creating a new piece of music. People who practice composition are called composers.- Musical compositions :...

 with Nikolai Sidelnikov

Nikolai Sidelnikov

Nikolai Nikolayevich Sidelnikov was a Russian Soviet composer.Sidelnikov studied with E. O. Messner and Yuri Shaporin at the Moscow Conservatory. He taught at the Moscow Conservatory where he was a professor from 1981...

. He became a member of the Union of Composers and ACM - Association for Contemporary Music

ACM - Association for Contemporary Music

Association for Contemporary Music was an alternative organization of Russian composers interested in avant-garde music. It was founded by Nikolai Roslavets in 1923. ACM ran concert series and published magazines promoting the modernist music of Mahler, Schoenberg, Berg, Webern, Krenek, and...

. He was active as an editor at the Moscow

Moscow

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 publishers "Musyka" for several years.
In 1975, he joined the improvisation group "Astreya" together with the composers Sofia Gubaidulina

Sofia Gubaidulina

Sofia Asgatovna Gubaidulina, is a Russian composer of half Russian, half Tatar ethnicity.Gubaidulina's music is marked by the use of unusual instrumental combinations...

 and Viktor Suslin

Viktor Suslin

Viktor Yevseyevich Suslin |Ural]], Russia ) is a Russian composer living in Germany as of 1981.-Biography:At the age of four , Suslin began to study piano and made his first attempts at composition. From 1950 to 1962 he attended Kharkiv Music High School, and from 1961 to 1962 at Kharkiv...

. In 1979, he was blacklisted as one of the “Khrennikov's Seven

Khrennikov's Seven

Khrennikov’s Seven was a group of seven Russian Soviet composers denounced at the Sixth Congress of the Composers' Union by its leader Tikhon Khrennikov for the unapproved participation in some festivals of Soviet music in the West. Khrennikov called their music "pointlessness... and noisy mud...

” at the Sixth Congress of the Union of Composers for unapproved participation in some festivals of Soviet music in the West. Artyomov was also a member of the Russian Academy of Natural Sciences. He has been a freelance composer since 1979.

Music

In his music Artyomov combines an eclecticism with experiment. At first his compositions were neoclassical

Neoclassicism (music)

Neoclassicism in music was a twentieth-century trend, particularly current in the period between the two World Wars, in which composers sought to return to aesthetic precepts associated with the broadly defined concept of "classicism", namely order, balance, clarity, economy, and emotional restraint...

 in style. Later he moved to the folkloristic style, tried twelve-tone technique, free-rhythmic style, polytonality

Polytonality

The musical use of more than one key simultaneously is polytonality . Bitonality is the use of only two different keys at the same time...

 and minimalism

Minimalist music

Minimal music is a style of music associated with the work of American composers La Monte Young, Terry Riley, Steve Reich, and Philip Glass. It originated in the New York Downtown scene of the 1960s and was initially viewed as a form of experimental music called the New York Hypnotic School....

. Artyomov's compositions show his interest in the archaic ("Invocations", "Totem") and Christian motifs ("Requiem", "Ave, Maria") as well as Eastern meditation ("Awakening", "A Symphony of Elegies", "Moonlight Dreams").

Works

• Symphony of the Way (tetralogy)
  • Way to Olympus) 1978-1984
  • On the Threshold of a Bright World, 1990, 2002
  • Gentle Emanation, 1991, 2004
  • The Morning Star Arises, 1993
• Requiem, 1985–1988;
• In Memoriam, 1968, 1984
• Gurian Hymn, 1986
• A Symphony of Elegies, 1977;
• A Garland of Recitations, 1975–1981
• Tristia I, 1983
• Ave, Maria, 1989
• Pieta, 1992, 1996
• Tristia II, 1997, 1998
• Star Wind, 1981;
• Hymns of Sudden Wafts, 1983
• Invocations, 1981
• Moonlight Dreams, 1982

Discography

• CDBMR011129 - Vyacheslav Artyomov: Requiem Moscow Philharmonic Symphony Orchestra Boheme
• CDBMR002124 - Vyacheslav Artyomov: - Ave Boheme
• CDBMR010127 - Vyacheslav Artyomov: Awakening, Concert of the 13, Morning Songs & A Garland of Recitations Boheme
• OCD514 - Vyacheslav Artyomov: Invocations Lydia Davydova
  Lydia Davydova
  Lydia Anatolyevna Davydova was a Russian soprano and a chamber music performer...
  
  / Mark Pekarsky / Percussion Ensemble Olympia
• OCD516 - Vyacheslav Artyomov: Way Various Olympia

Literature

Artëmov, Vjačeslav; V. Mud'jugina (2004): Vjačeslav Artëmov. Muzyka, Moskau. ISBN 5-7140-0177-X. [Booklet, Russian and English]

External links

• Information
• CD Composer's home page
• Foundation for Spiritual Creativity Composer's new homepage