Honored art worker of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic
Legion of Honour
Commandeur des Arts et des Lettres
Music
Member of, past and present
Academy of Arts of the GDR
Academy of Arts, Berlin
Bavarian Academy of Fine Arts
Edison Denisov in Sortavala, summer 1975. Photo by Dmitri Smirnov.
Edison Vasilievich Denisov (Russian: Эдисо́н Васи́льевич Дени́сов, 6 April 1929 – 24 November 1996) was a Russian composer in the so-called "Underground", "alternative" or "nonconformist" division of Soviet music.