Leonid Desyatnikov

Desyatnikov in 2012

Leonid Arkadievich Desyatnikov (Russian: Леонид Аркадьевич Десятников, born: 16 October 1955, Kharkiv, Ukrainian SSR) is a Russian[1] composer who first made a reputation with a number of film scores, then achieving greater fame when his controversial opera The Children of Rosenthal was premiered at the Bolshoi Theatre in Moscow.

  1. ^ Manulkina, Olga. "The Rite of Beauty: An Introduction to the Music of Leonid Desyatnikov." Tempo, No. 220, 2002, pp. 20–23.