Вячеслав Петрович Артёмов | en

Vyacheslav Petrovich Artyomov, (Russian: Вячеслав Петрович Артёмов; born June 29 1940) is a Russian composer.

Artyomov first studied physics at the Moscow University, then moved to music. He graduated from the Moscow Conservatory in 1968 where studied composition with Nikolai Sidelnikov. He became a member of the Union of Composers and ACM - Association for Contemporary Music. He was active as an editor at the Moscow publishers "Musyka" for several years.
In 1975 he joined the improvisation group Astreja together with the composers Sofia Gubaidulina and Viktor Suslin. In 1979 he was blacklisted as one of the “Khrennikov's Seven” at the Sixth Congress of the Union of Composers for unapproved participation in some festivals of Soviet music in the West. Artyomov was also a member of the Russian Academy of Natural Sciences. He has been a freelance composer since 1979.

In his music Artyomov combines an eclecticism with experiment. At first his compositions were neoclassical in style. Then he moved to the folkloristic style, tried twelve-tone technique, free-rhythmic style, polytonality and minimalism. Artyomov's compositions show his interest in the archaic ("Invocations", "Totem") and Christian motifs ("Requiem", "Ave, Maria") as well as Eastern meditation ("Awakening", "A Symphony of Elegies", "Moonlight Dreams").

Works:

* Symphony of the Way (tetralogy)
- Way to Olympus 1978-1984
- On the Threshold of a Bright World, 1990, 2002
- Gentle Emanation, 1991, 2004
- The Morning Star Arises, 1993

* Requiem, 1985-1988;
* In Memoriam, 1968, 1984
* Gurian Hymn, 1986
* A Symphony of Elegies, 1977
* A Garland of Recitations, 1975-1981
* Tristia I, 1983
* Ave, Maria, 1989
* Pieta, 1992, 1996
* Tristia II, 1997, 1998
* Star Wind, 1981
* Hymns of Sudden Wafts, 1983
* Invocations, 1981
* Moonlight Dreams, 1982 .