The knight errant of the avant-garde: remembering Victor Ekimovskiy
ISSN 2308-1333
Abstract
This publication is dedicated to the memory of our contemporary, Russian composer, musicologist, and chairman of the Association of Contemporary Music, Victor Ekimovskiy (1947– 2024). Alexander Raskatov, a composer and close friend of Ekimovskiy, shares his memories of the difficult period of the 1990s, joint trips to the House of Composers' Creativity "Ruza," and worldly situations. Through the prism of episodes from his personal life—"human moments, touching, and complex," the image of Victor Alekseevich—the main things in his personality and creativity—are highlighted; the panorama of uneasy but friendly relations between the ACM members is revealed.
Keywords
Viktor Ekimovskiy, Faraj Karayev, Alexander Vustin, Edison Denisov, Nikolai Korndorf, Association for Contemporary Music (ACM-2), composition as an individual project, the Ninth Symphony by V. Ekimovskiy