Владимир Мартынов is a Russian composer born in Moscow in 1946 who began his career in the late 1960s and is associated with contemporary classical music, minimalism and avant-garde electronic experimentation. His music evolved from experimental electronic and serial techniques employed in the Soviet underground to a later focus on early-music influences, sacred choral composition and reductive, contemplative minimalism that bridges avant-garde practices and liturgical traditions, reflecting broader cultural currents in late Soviet and post-Soviet Russia.
