Vyacheslav Artyomov composer

Vyacheslav Petrovich Artyomov

(born June 29, 1940) is a Russian and Soviet composer.

Artyomov was preparing to become physicist, studying music at the same time. He finished the musical college affiliated to the Moscow Conservatory (composition class of A. Pirumov), then graduated from the Moscow Conservatory in 1968 where studied composition with Nikolai Sidelnikov and piano with Tovi Logovinsky. He became a member of the Union of Composers and ACM —Association for Contemporary Music. He was active as an editor at the Moscow publishers "Musyka" for several years.

In 1975, he joined the improvisation group "Astreya" together with the composers Sofia Gubaidulina and Viktor Suslin. In 1979, he was blacklisted as one of the “Khrennikov's Seven” at the Sixth Congress of the Union of Composers for unapproved participation in some festivals of Soviet music in the West.

His music was performed by M.Rostropovich, G.Rozhdestvensky, V.Fedoseyev, M.Pletnyov, V.Spivakov, T.Currentz