Alexander gradsky biography

While Gradsky was still studying at the Academy, film director Andrei Konchalovsky asked him to write music for the movie “A Lovers’ Romance.” Gradsky, a tenor with a range of more than three octaves, sang all the male parts in the movie.

Two years later he performed a composition called “How Young We Were” by Alexandra Pakhmutova and Nikolai Dobronravov for the film “My Love in Junior Year.” The song won the “Song-77” festival and remains one of Gradsky’s best-known and most popular songs.

Over his career, Gradsky would score more than 40 movies and release dozens of albums.

He also composed several operas, including the rock opera “Stadium” in 1985 and an opera of Mikhail Bulgakov’s “Master and Margarita.” The opera, written in 2009, has not been performed on stage but exists as a recording with a cast of some of Russia’s