Alexander Nemtin
From Unearthing The Music
Alexander Nemtin (born on July 13, 1936 in Molotov [now Perm, Russia], died in 1999) was a Russian composer.
Nemtin's musical gifts were recognized by his mother (a gifted piano player in her own right) in his childhood, and by 1944 he had joined a piano class, and tried his hand at composition, with his first appearance on the stage as a composer being in December 26, 1949. In 1954, Nemtin began a career as a conductor of amateur groups in Perm, and after graduating from the conservatory in 1960 he sought out work with the Composers Union of Siberia in Novosibirstk, but failed and was forced to head to Moscow. By 1961 he began working with the ANS Synthesizer – a photo-electronic musical instrument, invented by Russian engineer Eugene Murzin. Nemtin became a member of the Composers' Union in 1965. In 1970, he started work on a reconstruction of Scriabin’s “The Prefatory Act (Preparation for the Final Mystery)”, an early version of which appeared on LP as "Universe", conducted by Kirill Kondrashin. Nemtin completed his work in 1998, but died early in 1999. Preparation for the Final Mystery was recorded for Decca by Vladimir Ashkenazy.