Alexey Rybnikov

Alexey Lvovich Rybnikov (Russian: Алексе́й Льво́вич Ры́бников; born July 17, 1945 in Moscow) is a modern Russian composer.

He is the author of music for the first Soviet and Russian musicals (rock-operas) "Star and Death of Joaquin Murrieta" (Звезда и смерть Хоакина Мурьеты, 1976) and "Juno and Avos" (Юнона и Авось, 1981, shown more than 700 times), for numerous plays and operas, for more than 80 Russian movies. More than 10 millions discs with his music have been sold to 1989.

Alexey Rybnikov was born on July 17, 1945. Having come into the world in a family of a violinist and an artist, he was surrounded by art and music from the first days of his life. Alexey composed one of his first works, “The Thief of Baghdad”, being influenced by a very popular at those times trophy film under the same name.

Rybnikov passed exams to the Central Music School at the Moscow Conservatory. The boy’s father introduced his son to Aram Khachaturian, who proposed the boy to study in his class. After finishing the music school in 1962, Rybnikov entered the conservatory where his close contact with the teacher went on. Later Alexey did post-graduate studies under Khachaturian’s supervision as well.

In 1969 Rybnikov was admitted to the Union of Soviet Composers.

After that, during several years Alexey was teaching at the chair of theoretical disciplines and assisted in the class of Khachaturian. But then Alexey left teaching.

During the period of 1960 and 1970s Rybnikov’s creative work was marked by classical symphony traditions. He wrote camera music, concertos for the violin, for the string quartet and orchestra, for the bayan and orchestra of Russian Folk Instruments, “Russian overture” for the symphony orchestra, and many others).

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