Leonid Arkadievich Desyatnikov is a Russian composer. Desyatnikov graduated from the Leningrad Conservatory in 1978. In recent years he has worked closely with Gidon Kremer. He has written the music to a number of films, including Sunset (Zeldovich, 1990). His opera Rosental's Children commissioned and staged at the Bolshoi Theatre made an enormous and scandalous success. He is the author of five operas, the ballet A Love Song in Minor, the symphony Sacred Winter, vocal cycles to the poems of Rilke and the OBERIU poets, and several instrumental variations on the themes of Astor…
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