Vyacheslav Ovchinnikov

Born May 29, 1936· Voronezh, Voronezhskaya oblast, RSFSR, USSR

† Died February 4, 2019

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Emerging from Voronezh, the composer began writing music at nine and entered the Moscow Conservatory as a teenager, later refining his craft under Tikhon Khrennikov and Leo Ginzburg. Over a career that spanned six decades, he supplied scores for roughly forty films, most famously for Sergei Bondarchuk’s epic War and Peace and Andrei Tarkovsky’s Ivan’s Childhood and Andrei Rublev, earning the direc… Read more

Biography written by WatchMoods, based on public sources