Eduard Artemyev
Composer, Actor
November 30, 1937 — December 29, 2022 (85 years)
Eduard Nikolaevich Artemyev PAR (Russian: Эдуа́рд Никола́евич Арте́мьев, IPA: [ɛdʊˈard ɐrˈtʲemʲjɪf]; born 30 November 1937) is a Soviet and Russian composer of electronic music and film scores. Outside of Russia he is mostly known for his soundtracks for films such as Solaris, Siberiade, Stalker and Burnt by the Sun. He was awarded the title People's Artist of Russia in 1999.
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 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 composers 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 of Tarkovsky's Solaris, Zerkalo and Stalker. Later he also wrote film scores for Andrei Konchalovsky and Nikita Mikhalkov. His film scores and his music received numerous accolades as well as three Nika Awards. Recently, he licensed several excerpts from the Solaris soundtrack in order to use them in the upcoming Spanish production The Cosmonaut. Eduard Artemyev wrote a couple of songs the most famous of them Deltaplan by Valery Leontiev.
In 2001 he won the Special Silver St. George at the 23rd Moscow International Film Festival.
Eduard Artemyev's composition Campaign or Death of the hero (Siberiade theme) has been used at 2014 Winter Olympics opening ceremony in Sochi, and his music theme from At Home Among Strangers has been used at the closing ceremony.
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 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 composers 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 of Tarkovsky's Solaris, Zerkalo and Stalker. Later he also wrote film scores for Andrei Konchalovsky and Nikita Mikhalkov. His film scores and his music received numerous accolades as well as three Nika Awards. Recently, he licensed several excerpts from the Solaris soundtrack in order to use them in the upcoming Spanish production The Cosmonaut. Eduard Artemyev wrote a couple of songs the most famous of them Deltaplan by Valery Leontiev.
In 2001 he won the Special Silver St. George at the 23rd Moscow International Film Festival.
Eduard Artemyev's composition Campaign or Death of the hero (Siberiade theme) has been used at 2014 Winter Olympics opening ceremony in Sochi, and his music theme from At Home Among Strangers has been used at the closing ceremony.
Filmography
| 2023 | In the Shadows of Nuremberg · as Original Music Composer |
| 2018 | |
| 2016 | The Heritage of Love · as Original Music ComposerOn Plex |
| 2014 | The Postman's White Nights · as Original Music Composer |
| 2014 | Sunstroke · as Original Music Composer |
| 2013 | Legend No. 17 · as Original Music Composer |
| 2012 | Expiation · as Original Music Composer |
| 2012 | Branded · as Original Music Composer |
| 2011 | Utomlennye solntsem 2 · as Composer |
| 2011 | Home · as Original Music Composer |
| 2011 | Utomlennye solntsem 2: Tsitadel · as Original Music Composer |
| 2011 | A Quiet Outpost · as Original Music Composer |
| 2010 | The Nutcracker: The Untold Story · as Original Music Composer |
| 2010 | Burnt by the Sun 2 · as Original Music Composer |
| 2009 | |
| 2009 | |
| 2008 | |
| 2008 | Nikto, krome nas... · as Original Music Composer |
| 2007 | 12 · as Original Music Composer |
| 2007 | |
| 2006 | |
| 2006 | Doktor Zhivago · as Composer |
| 2004 | |
| 2003 | |
| 2002 | House of Fools · as Original Music Composer |
| 2001 | As Far as My Feet Will Carry Me · as Original Music ComposerOn Plex |
| 1999 | Mama · as Original Music Composer |
| 1998 | The Barber of Siberia · as Original Music Composer |
| 1997 | The Odyssey (1997) · as Original Music ComposerOn Plex |
| 1995 | Limita · as Original Music Composer |
| 1995 | Burial of the Rats · as Original Music Composer |
| 1995 | Ya - Russkiy soldat · as Composer |
| 1994 | Burnt by the Sun · as Original Music Composer |
| 1994 | Anna ot 6 do 18 · as Original Music Composer |
| 1993 | |
| 1993 | |
| 1992 | Double Jeopardy · as Original Music Composer |
| 1992 | Far Away from St. Petersburg · as Original Music Composer |
| 1992 | Volshebnaya lavka · as Original Music Composer |
| 1991 | The Inner Circle · as Original Music Composer |
| 1991 | Close to Eden · as Original Music Composer |
| 1991 | |
| 1991 | |
| 1991 | Geniy · as Original Music Composer |
| 1990 | The Executioner · as Original Music Composer |
| 1990 | |
| 1990 | Vkhod v Labirint · as Original Music Composer |
| 1989 | |
| 1989 | Homer and Eddie · as Original Music Composer |
| 1989 | |
| 1989 | |
| 1988 | |
| 1988 | Zerograd · as Original Music ComposerOn Plex |
| 1988 | |
| 1988 | Gosudarstvennaya granitsa: Solyonyy veter · as Composer |
| 1987 | |
| 1987 | Visit to the Minotaur · as Original Music Composer |
| 1987 | |
| 1987 | Konets vechnosti · as Original Music Composer |
| 1987 | Dvoe na ostrove slyoz · as Original Music Composer |
| 1987 | My vesely, schastlivy, talantlivy! · as Original Music Composer |
| 1987 | The Mouse and the Camel · as Composer |
| 1986 | Courier · as Original Music Composer |
| 1986 | Souchastie v ubiystve · as Original Music Composer |
| 1986 | |
| 1986 | Korabl prisheltsev · as Original Music Composer |
| 1985 | The Invisible Man · as Original Music Composer |
| 1985 | Mystery of the Sphinx · as Original Music Composer |
| 1985 | Seven Elements (1985) · as Original Music Composer |
| 1984 | Pervaya konnaya · as Original Music Composer |
| 1984 | |
| 1984 | |
| 1984 | Is It a Bird or Is It a Beast? · as Composer |
| 1983 | Moon Rainbow · as Original Music Composer |
| 1983 | Bez svideteley · as Original Music Composer |
| 1983 | |
| 1983 | |
| 1982 | Zakhvat · as Original Music Composer |
| 1982 | Svidaniye s molodostyu · as Original Music Composer |
| 1982 | |
| 1982 | |
| 1982 | Family Relations · as Original Music Composer |
| 1981 | Opasnyy vozrast · as Original Music Composer |
| 1981 | Little Alexander · as Original Music Composer |
| 1981 | Moya lubov-revolutsiya · as Composer |
| 1980 | |
| 1980 | The Mystery of Edwin Drood · as Original Music Composer |
| 1980 | A Few Days from the Life of I.I. Oblomov · as Original Music Composer |
| 1980 | Syshchik · as Original Music Composer |
| 1980 | |
| 1980 | |
| 1979 | Territoriya · as Original Music Composer |
| 1979 | |
| 1979 | |
| 1979 | |
| 1979 | Stalker · as Original Music Composer |
| 1979 | The Bodyguard · as Original Music Composer |
| 1978 | The Legends of the Peruvian Indians · as Original Music Composer |
| 1977 | Unfinished Piece for the Player Piano · as Original Music Composer |
| 1976 | A Slave of Love · as Original Music Composer |
| 1976 | Strakh vysoty · as Original Music Composer |
| 1975 | Mirror · as Original Music ComposerOn Plex |
| 1974 | |
| 1974 | At Home Among Strangers, a Stranger Among His Own · as Original Music Composer |
| 1974 | Dr. Iven's Silence · as Original Music Composer |
| 1972 | Solaris · as Original Music ComposerOn Plex |
| 1972 | Small Wind · as Composer |
| 1971 | |
| 1970 | Spokoynyy den v kontse voyny · as Original Music Composer |
| 1969 | Kazhdyy vecher v odinnadtsat · as Original Music Composer |
| 1969 | Great Cold · as Original Music Composer |
| 1969 | |
| 1968 | Urok literatury · as Original Music Composer |
| 1968 | A Ball of Yarn · as Original Music Composer |
| 1968 | Happiness Is Not in the Hat · as Composer |
| 1963 | Mechte navstrechu · as Original Music Composer |
| 1962 | Fitil · as Original Music Composer |
| 2014 | Sunstroke · as Assistant Photographer |
| 1983 | Bez svideteley · as (uncredited) |
| 2012 | Urgant Show · as Self - Guest |
| 2020 | Comfort zone · as Musical |
| 2019 | Sin · as Music Arranger |