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Leonid Arkadievich Desyatnikov (Russian: Леонид Аркадьевич Десятников, born: 16 October 1955, Kharkiv, Ukrainian SSR) is a Russian composer who first made a reputation with a number of film scores, then achieving greater fame when his controversial opera The Children of Rosenthal was premiered at the Bolshoi Theatre in ...
Leonid Desyatnikov. Composer, Lady with a Lapdog. Work includes opera ( Poor Liza ), ballet ( A Love Song in A Minor ), symphony ( Sacred Winter, Sketches of Sunset ), vocal cycles (to poems of Rilke), and instrumental variations on the themes of Astor Piazzola.
In 2009-10, Leonid Desyatnikov was Music Director of the Bolshoi Theatre. Desyatnikov wrote the scores for the films Sunset (1990), Lost in Siberia (1991), Contact (1992), Moscow Region Evenings (1994), Hammer and Sickle (1994), Katya Izmailova (1994), Giselle Mania (1995), Prisoner of the Caucasus (1996), All That Is Tender (1996), Moscow ...
Desyatnikov is one of the most performed contemporary Russian composers. His music is often performed at major music festivals: Lockenhaus (Austria, 1996, 1998), Gstaad (Switzerland, 1997), Svyatoslav Richter's December Evenings (1997).
Leonid Desyatnikov has been collaborating with Gidon Kremer since 1996 as a composer (Wie der Alte Leiermann...; the chamber version of Sketches to Sunset; Russian Seasons) as well as arranging the works of Astor Piazzolla, including the tango-operita María de Buenos Aires and the tango suite Cuatro estaciones porteñas.
Leonid Desyatnikov was born on 16 October 1955 in Kharkov, Ukrainian SSR, USSR [now Kharkiv, Ukraine]. He is a composer, known for Van Goghs (2018), Target (2011) and Moskva (2000).
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May 31, 2021 · Young composers often make their living with incidental music. Such was the case of Leonid Desyatnikov who wrote in his early years a lot of music for puppet...
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