Eduard Artemiev
Russia, 1960–2022
Soviet and Russian composer (1937–2022), a pioneer of electronic music in film scoring. An early exponent of the ANS photoelectronic synthesizer at Moscow's Experimental Studio of Electronic Music, he is best known for his scores for Andrei Tarkovsky — Solaris, Mirror, Stalker — and for Mikhalkov's Siberiade and Burnt by the Sun.
MusicRoots documents 2 artists who influenced Eduard Artemiev and 1 artist Eduard Artemiev influenced in turn. Every connection cites a published source.
Who influenced Eduard Artemiev?
- Karlheinz Stockhausen — Artemiev's electronic language grew out of the post-war avant-garde — he was directly influenced by Stockhausen's electronic works such as 'Gesang der Jünglinge'.
- Johann Sebastian Bach — Bach is woven into Artemiev's most famous score: for Solaris he recorded variations on Bach's Chorale Prelude in F minor as the theme representing Earth.
Which artists did Eduard Artemiev influence?
- Tangerine Dream — Artemiev's pioneering synthesizer film scoring prefigured and influenced later electronic film composers — critics trace Tangerine Dream's sequenced-ostinato film work (e.g. Thief) back to his approach.