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".