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Alexey Rybnikov was born on July, 17, 1945. Having come into the world in a family of a violinist and an artist, he was surrounded by art and music from the first days of his life. At the same time, cinematograph was among the most striking impressions of his childhood. Alexey wrote one of his first works — “The Thief of Baghdad” being influenced by a very popular at those times trophy film under the same name.
The obvious genius of the child had been noticed by the family, and his mother took him to a musical school. He passed exams in two educational institutions simultaneously — the Central Music School after P.I. Tchaikovsky and the Gnessins’ School. He had been admitted to both, his parents chose the first one. So the boy’s father introduced his son to Aram Khachaturian, who proposed the boy to study in his class. After finishing the music school, Rybnikov entered the conservatoire where his close contact with the teacher went on.
In 1969 Rybnikov was admitted to the Union of Composers. After that, during several years Alexey was teaching at the chair of theoretical disciplines and assisted in the class of Khachaturian. But then Alexey left teaching. The unique author’s manner, that helps to identify any Rybnikov’s composition immediately - wrenching and penetrating themes, distinguished nobility of melodic lines, prominence, almost visualization of figurative sphere, was formed during those years.
During the period of 60–70s Rybnikov’s creative work was marked by classical symphony traditions. In spite of that, since 1965 Alexey has already started composing movie music. A short film “Lelka” by director PavelArsenov (1966) was his first experience. Over the next decades his close and productive collaboration with cinematograph would continue.
Rybnikovhas been a member of the Union of Cinematographers. Working over the past four decades in cinematograph Rybnikov has written music for more than 100 films. Among them there are soundtracks to such movies as: “The Treasure Island” by director Eugene Fridman; “The Big Space Travel” by director ValentinSelivanov; “Adventures of Buratino” and “About the Little Red Riding Hood. The Continuation of the Old Fairy Tale”. “Children from the Abyss” by director PavelChukhray. “Star” by director Nikolai Lebedev is the movie that brought to the composer all possible home awards for music in cinema and also the National Prize of the Russian Federation.
Opera-mystery “Avos”, known to the general public as “Juno” and “Avos”, was his next work. It has united central, basic elements of Rybnikov’s musical mentality — Russian sacred music, national folklore, genres of mass “city” music and figurative, ideological, and aesthetic priorities of the musician — the idea of expiation of sins by the man, his misdeeds and taking a responsibility, salvation in the God’s Love and Remission, consciousness of the Divine Mercy and praising of the Most High
The life of Alexey Rybnikov is associated with music. Rybnikov is a President of the National Festival “The Musical Heart of the Theatre” and Russian Family Festival “Our Buratino”.
