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Vladimir Martynov
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contemporary classicalminimalismrussianClassicalAvant-Garde
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Vladimir Ivanovich Martynov (Russian: Владимир Иванович Мартынов) (Moscow, 20 February 1946) is a Russian composer, known for his music in the concerto, orchestral music, chamber music and choral music genres. Vladimir Martynov is a leader of the generation of composers of the Soviet Union, born after World War II, who pursued avant-garde courses at a time when official disfavour of such styles brought severe penalties to career development, but did not carry the physical risks of earlier years in the USSR. He studied piano as a child and gained an interest in composition. He enrolled in the Moscow Conservatory where he studied piano under Mezhlumov and composition under Sidelnikov. He graduated in 1971. He used serial (or twelve-tone) technique in his earliest mature compositions, such as the String Quartet of 1966, the Concerto for oboe and flute (1968), Hexagramme for piano (1971) and a violin sonata of 1973. He got a job in 1973 working at the studio for electronic music of the Scriabin Museum. For Soviet composers of this era, the studio had much the same meaning as the RIA Electronic Music Studio in Milan, the West German Radio studio, and the ORTF Studio in Paris—it was a meeting ground for the avant-garde. Sofia Gubaidulina, Sergei Nemtin, Alfred Schnittke, and Edison Denisov were among the composers regularly working and meeting there. Martynov helped form a rock group called Boomerang at the Scriabin Studio. For them he wrote a rock opera, St. Francis of Assisi
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Vladimir Martynov: The Beatitudes
17,4862Martynov: "Come in!", Movement II
9,2883The Beatitudes
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1,7415Come In!: IV. Movement
1,5946"Come In!": 2nd mvt.
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9078Martynov: "Come in!", Movement I
6649Martynov: "Come in!", Movement IV
52210Vladimir Martynov: Schubert-Quintet (Unfinished): Movement I
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