Biography
Mikael Leonovich Tariverdiev (Russian: Микаэл Леонович Таривердиев, Armenian: Միքայել Թարիվերդիև; 15 August 1931 – 25 July 1996) was a prominent Soviet composer of Armenian descent. He headed the Composers' Guild of the Soviet Cinematographers' Union from its inception and is most famous for his movie scores, primarily the score to Seventeen Moments of Spring. Mikael Tariverdiev was born in Tbilisi, Georgian SSR to Armenian parents, but lived and worked in Russia. His father, Levon Tariverdiev, was from Baku but a native of Nagorno-Karabakh. His mother, Satenik, was Georgian Armenian. He studied at the Komitas State Conservatory of Yerevan for two years and then graduated from the Moscow Gnessin Institute in the class of Aram Khachaturian in 1957.Tariverdiev wrote over 100 romances and four operas, including the comic opera Count Cagliostro and the mono-opera "The Waiting". However, he is mostly known for his scores to many popular Soviet movies (more than 130 in total), including "Seventeen Moments of Spring" and "The Irony of Fate"—see List of film music by Mikael Tariverdiev.
He received many awards, including the USSR State Prize in 1977 and the Prize of the American Music Academy in 1975. In 1986 he was awarded the title of People's Artist of Russia. In 1990, he won three Nika Awards for Best Composer.
The Best Music prize at the largest Russian National Film Festival Kinotaur is named after Tariverdiev.
On 31 May 1990 Tariverdiev underwent cardiac surgery in the London Royal Hospital; his aortic valve was replaced with an artificial one. Upon his death in 1996, a group of admirers of his music founded the Mikael Tariverdiev Charity Fund and organized the Tariverdiev International Organ Competition.
In November 2015, the first major release of Tariverdiev's work in the West was published in London by Antique Beat and the UK label Earth Recordings, as a set of three albums titled 'Film Music'. The release was curated by Vera Tariverdieva, the composer's widow, and Stephen Coates of the UK band The Real Tuesday Weld, who had heard Tariverdiev's music in Moscow in 2011.
Filmography
all 66
Movies 63
TV Shows 3
Little School Orchestra (2023)
Close Relations (2016)
And Here's What's Happening to Me (2012)
The Irony of Fate. The Sequel (2007)
Break Point (2004)
Still Waters (2000)
An Essay on Victory Day (1999)
All the Things We Dreamt of for So Long (1997)
Summerfolk (1995)
Everything Was Covered with Snow (1995)
Роман «Alla Russa» (1994)
Forget-Me-Nots (1994)
Thief (1994)
Russian Ragtime (1993)
I Was Disgraceful, I Am Leaving (1992)
Dancing Ghosts (1992)
And the Wind Returns... (1992)
Death in Cinema (1991)
Night Fun (1991)
Нелюдь (1990)
Homo Novus (1990)
Peril at End House (1989)
Commentary on the Petition for Clemency (1988)
Aelita, Do Not Pester Men (1988)
Osen, Chertanovo... (1988)
Threshold (1988)
Broken Circle (1987)
The Secret Agent’s End (1986)
Copper Angel (1984)
The Doctor's Pupil (1984)
The Secret Agent's Return (1982)
Premonition Of Love (1982)
We, the Undersigned (1981)
Государственная граница (1980)
An Old-Fashioned Comedy (1980)
Adam Marries Eve (1980)
Rain in a Foreign City (1979)
Golden River (1977)
The Irony of Fate, or Enjoy Your Bath! (1975)
The Lost Expedition (1975)
Olga Sergeevna (1975)
Olga Sergeevna (1975)
Starlit Minute (1974)
Seventeen Moments of Spring (1973)
Land, Poste Restante (1973)
The Fifteenth Spring (1971)
King Stag (1970)
The Secret Agent's Destiny (1970)
Passenger from the 'Equator' (1970)
The Price (1969)
Wake Mukhin Up! (1968)
The Secret Agent's Blunder (1968)
Save the Drowning Man (1968)
To Love (1968)
Sasha-Sashenka (1967)
Eastern Corridor (1966)
Farewell (1966)
The Last Crook (1966)
The Big Ore (1964)
Welcome, or No Trespassing (1964)
Goodbye, Boys! (1964)
My Younger Brother (1962)
Длинный день (1961)
Ten Steps to the East (1961)
Following the Sun (1961)
The Youth of Our Parents (1958)
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GenderMale
Birthday1931-08-15
Deathday1996-07-25 (64 years old)
Birth Nameმიქაელ ტარივერდიევი
Birth PlaceTbilisi, Georgia
CitizenshipsSoviet Union, Russia
Also Known AsMikael Tariverdiyev, Микаэл Таривердиев, Միքայել Թարիվերդիև, Микаэл Леонович Таривердиев
AwardsHonored art worker of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic, Lenin Komsomol Prize, USSR State Prize, Order of the Red Banner of Labour, People's Artist of the USSR, People's Artist of the RSFSR
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