Eduard Artemyev

'Eduard Nikolaevich Artemyev (born 1937) is a Russian electronic and film score composer. He became interested in electronic music in the 1960s, when the genre had just begun. He is now one of Russia's most renowned composers.

---

Works for which Artemyev has composed music:

• A Quiet Day At The End Of The War (1970, dir, Nikita Mikhalkov)
• Solaris (1972, dir. Andrei Tarkovsky)
• At Home Among Strangers (1974, dir. Nikita Mikhalkov)
• Slave of Love (1976, dir. Nikita Mikhalkov)
• Stalker (1979, dir. Andrei Tarkovsky)
• Siberiade (1979, dir. Andrei Konchalovsky)
• When Do Whales Leave? (1981, dir. Anatoly Nitochkin)
• TASS Is Authorized to Declare (1984 TV miniseries, dir. Vladimir Fokin)
• Homer And Eddie (1988, dir. Andrei Konchalovsky)
• Autostop (1990, dir. Nikita Mikhalkov)
• The Inner Circle (1991, dir. Andrei Konchalovsky)
• Burnt by the Sun (1994, dir. Nikita Mikhalkov)
• The Barber of Siberia (1994, dir. Nikita Mikhalkov)
• Doctor Zhivago (2006, remake by Alexander Proshkin)

---

Eduard Artemyev provides examples of the following tropes:

• Associated Composer: For Andrei Konchalovsky, Nikita Mikhalkov, and Andrei Tarkovsky. Especially for Mikhalkov.
• Bolero Effect
• Drone of Dread
• Ethereal Choir
• Leitmotif
• Lonely Piano Piece
• Playing the Heart Strings
• Rearrange the Song: Rearranged Bach's "Ich ruf zu Dir, Herr Jesu Christ" into the theme from Solaris. Later on his own theme for Siberiade was rearranged by PPK into the trance hit "Resurrection".