The Master and Margarita

Andrei Petrov - Master i Margarita

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The Russian composer Andrei Pavlovich Petrov (1930-2006) got his reputation as a movie soundtrack composer in the sixties, He won more than one prestigious prize. In the years '80 and '90 he composed various successful concerts for violin and piano and symphonic works, among which the symphonic fantasia Мастер и Маргарита [Master i Margarita] in 1984. Later the Boris Eifmans Saint-Petersburg Ballet Theatre would create a ballet on it.

Andrei Petrov was originally commissioned by film director Vladimir Bortko to write the soundtrack for his successful TV-series Мастер и Маргарита [Master i Margarita] from 2005, but later the order went to Igor Kornelyuk.