David Tukhmanov
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David Fyodorovich Tukhmanov July 20, 1940 Moscow, USSR |
| Alma mater | Gnessin State Musical College |
| Occupation | Composer |
| Years active | 1961—present |
| Title | People's Artist of Russia (2000) |
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David Fyodorovich Tukhmanov PAR (Russian: Дави́д Фёдорович Тухма́нов, was born on July 20, 1940, in Moscow, USSR) is a Soviet and Russian composer. People's Artist of Russia (2000), State Prize of Russian Federation (2003).
Tukhmanov is the son of the engineer, the Armenian Fyodor Davidovich Tukhmanov and the teacher of music Vera Anatolyevna Karasyova. He had engaged in music under the direction of mother and wrote first piece of music (Lezginka), when he was four years old. Then he finished Gnesins musical school (1958) and composer's branch of Gnesins Musical College (1963). His degree's work was the oratorio for soloists, chorus and an orchestra Distance After Distance, which is based on fragments of the big poem by Alexander Tvardovsky.
Tukhmanov is known for the Soviet hits such as Victory Day (Den Pobedy) and other very popular songs (in the end of the 1960s, in the 1970s and 1980s). His first hit was Last Electrichka (1968).
In 1972 Tukhmanov has released his first author's album How the World is Fine and further he created an album-suite On a Wave of My Memory (1975).
In 1973 Tukhmanov wrote songs and music for TV film These Cheerful Planet. In the next year he released soundtrack album, which included also other songs.
The idea of On a Wave of My Memory belonged to Tatyana Sashko, the wife of David Tukhmanov, and she found classical poems for an album. It was the first conceptual Russian album. In 1972, How Beautiful is the World was released as a trial work.
Some amateurs of rock said that On a Wave of My Memory is a Russian Sergeant (they meant Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Heart Club Band). I would prefer to recollect «great albums» of Pink Floyd, but I want to tell about another. Imagine the circle and place the tracks clockwise. You will see from right to left and from top to down:
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