Edward Artemiev

Edward Artemiev (Eduard Artemyev, 1937-2022) was a Russian composer of electronic music and film scores, born in Novosibirsk. He worked early on with the ANS photoelectronic synthesizer built by Yevgeny Murzin, and he is best known for his scores for Andrei Tarkovsky's Solaris, Mirror and Stalker. Artemiev graduated from the Moscow Conservatory in 1960, where he studied with Yuri Shaporin. For Solaris (1972) he set a Bach chorale prelude against electronic textures, and he went on to Mirror (1975) and Stalker (1979).