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Edison Denisov was born in Tomsk, Siberia, on the 6th of April 1929. He originally trained in mathematics before turning to music, a shift Dmitri Shostakovich supported personally by giving him composition lessons.
Le soleil des Incas, a 1964 cycle for soprano and chamber ensemble setting poems by Gabriela Mistral, first brought Edison Denisov international recognition. Performances in Darmstadt and Paris in 1965 caught the attention of Igor Stravinsky, who praised the composer's remarkable talent.
Edison Denisov was blacklisted at the Sixth Congress of the Union of Soviet Composers in 1979 as one of Khrennikov's Seven. The Soviet Composers' Union cited his unapproved participation in festivals of Soviet music staged in the West.
Edison Denisov studied composition with Vissarion Shebalin at the Moscow Conservatory in 1951-56, after Dmitri Shostakovich encouraged him to become a composer. His own students later included Dmitri Smirnov, Elena Firsova, Vladimir Tarnopolsky, Sergey Pavlenko, Ivan Sokolov, and Yuri Kasparov.
Edison Denisov died in a hospital in Saint-Mandé, France, on the 24th of November 1996, after an accident and a long illness. He had moved to France after leading the Association for Contemporary Music, which was reestablished in Moscow in 1990.
Edison Denisov received France's Chevalier of the Legion of Honour and Commander of the Order of Arts and Letters. Russia named him a People's Artist of the Russian Federation and an Honoured Artist of the RSFSR.