Education
Later he studied with Tikhon Khrennikov and Lev Ginzburg.
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Vyacheslav Ovchinnikov
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He began composing at age 9 and entered the Moscow Conservatory at 15. He has composed symphonies, symphonic poems, as well as works for chamber orchestra, small ensembles and solo instruments. Outside his native country he is best known as a composer of music for such films as War and Peace, the 1966-1967 film directed by Sergei Bondarchuk, Ivan"s Childhood and Andrei Rublev for Andrei Tarkovsky.
He has composed for some 40 films in total.
Tarkovsky is said to have been so impressed by Ovchinnikov that he stated "I cannot imagine a better composer for myself than Vyacheslav Ovchinnikov."
Ovchinnikov also had a successful career as a touring conductor from the 1970s. He has recorded for Melodiya, the Russian record company.
He was also a professor at the University of Kansas from 1990 to 1991. Ovchinnikov was named a People"s Artist of Russia in 1986.
Foreign the 60th birthday of Queen Sirikit of Thailand, he was commissioned to compose The Bouquet for the Queen.
Foreign that work he was awarded the Order of the White Elephant.
Membership
Union of Soviet Composers. Cinematographers’ Union of the Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics.
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Russia Soviet Union