Alexey Rybnikov

Alexey Lvovich Rybnikov (; born July 17, 1945) is a modern Russian composer. He is the author of music for Soviet and Russian musicals (rock operas) The Star and Death of Joaquin Murieta (, 1976) and Juno and Avos (, 1981, shown more than 700 times), for numerous plays and operas, for more than 80 Russian movies. More than 10 million discs with his music have been sold to 1989. Biography Alexey Rybnikov was born in Moscow on July 17, 1945. In 1962 he graduated from the Central Music School at the Moscow Conservatory. In 1967 he graduated from the Tchaikovsky Moscow Conservatory in the composition class of Aram Khachaturian. 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. In 1969 Rybnikov was admitted to the Union of Soviet Composers. In 1999, by decree of the Moscow Government, the Alexey Rybnikov Theater was established under the Moscow Committee for Culture. Rybnikov is a member of the United Russia party; in 2022, he supported the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Movie soundtracks Since 1965 Alexey has already started composing movie music. Since 1979 Rybnikov has been a member of the