Eduard Leonidovich Lazarev (Russian: Эдуа́рд Леони́дович Ла́зарев) is a Moldovan composer of Russian descent.
[3] Lazarev arranged the State Anthem of the Moldavian SSR in 1980, with authorization of The First Secretary of the Moldavian Communist Party Ivan Bodiul.
[4] In April 1979, Lazarev received a premiere at the Bolshoi Theatre in Moscow when he combined music with excerpts from speeches of Vladimir Lenin in the opera "Chemarea Revoluţiei" (The Call of the Revolution; also known as Leniniana), which lasted only nine performances.
[citation needed] Between 1974 and 1983 he wrote Master and Margarita, a ballet in 8 acts.
His second Piano Trio (1992) has been recorded by the Moscow Piano Trio.