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Dmitri Smirnov
Dmitri Smirnov
Russian composer
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Ernst Toch
Ernst Toch
Austrian composer
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Bruce Mather
Bruce Mather
Canadian composer
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Erkki-Sven Tüür
Erkki-Sven Tüür
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David Horne
David Horne
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Rodion Shchedrin
Rodion Shchedrin
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John Harbison
John Harbison
American composer
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Richard Mills
Richard Mills
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Tristan Keuris
Tristan Keuris
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Jiří Gemrot
Jiří Gemrot
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William Sydeman
William Sydeman
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Ruth Gipps
Ruth Gipps
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Stefans Grové
Stefans Grové
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Otomar Kvěch
Otomar Kvěch
Czech music educator, composer and university educator
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Alun Hoddinott
Alun Hoddinott
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Mark-Anthony Turnage
Mark-Anthony Turnage
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Ellen Taaffe Zwilich
Ellen Taaffe Zwilich
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Edison Denisov
Russian Soviet composer

Edison Denisov

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Russian Soviet composer
Genres
Awards Received
People's Artist of the Russian Federation
Honored art worker of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic
Legion of Honour
Commandeur des Arts et des Lettres‎
Member of, past and present
Academy of Arts of the GDR

Academy of Arts of the GDR

Academy of Arts, Berlin

Academy of Arts, Berlin

Bavarian Academy of Fine Arts

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.