Biography

David Tukhmanov is a Soviet and Russian composer, songwriter. Honored Artist of the Russian SFSR (1983). People's Artist of the Russian Federation (2000).

Under the influence of his mother, he began to study music from an early age. At the age of four he wrote his first piece of music. Graduated from the music school named after Gnessins in piano class. In 1958, Tukhmanov entered the composition department of the Musical-Pedagogical State Institute named after Gnesins. At the institute he studied in the class of F. Vitachek, graduated from the institute in 1963. After graduating from the institute, Tukhmanov was drafted into the army, served in the Song and Dance Ensemble of the Moscow Military District, where he led the orchestra.

In the 1960s he began working in the song genre. And he wrote his first pop hit, 'The Last Electric Train' (lyricist Mikhail Nozhkin), in 1964. Later he moved on to writing a cycle of patriotic songs, of which 'I love you, Russia', 'My address is the Soviet Union', 'We are a big family' and others became famous. In 1972, the first author's disc 'How Beautiful is the World' was released, in which Tukhmanov for the first time combined songs into one album, where the voices of new performers were heard - Aleksandr Gradskiy, Leonid Berger, Valeri Obodzinsky, Nina Brodskaya, Galina Nenasheva. In 1975 he wrote the song 'Victory Day' based on poems by Vladimir Kharitonov. At first, the song was not taken on TV and radio, considering Tukhmanov's music a foxtrot, and Kharitonov's poems as frivolous. However, Lev Leshchenko performed the song without official permission at a concert dedicated to Militia Day, which ensured popular recognition for it. In 1976, the disc 'In the Wave of My Memory' was released, written on poems by classical poets. The album was sold by 2.5 million copies.

Gradually, Tukhmanov began to move away from the pop music, mainly working in the genre of chamber music. In 1991 he went to live in Germany. Since 1995, after a break associated with his stay in Germany, Tukhmanov began working on children's musical projects, creating repertoire for children's bands, choirs and theater shows.
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