Vyacheslav Aleksandrovich Ovchinnikov (Russian: Вячесла́в Алекса́ндрович Овчи́нников; 29 May 1936 in Voronezh, Soviet Union – 4 February 2019[1] in Moscow, Russia) was a Soviet and Russian composer.
[2] He began composing at age 9 and entered the Moscow Conservatory at 15.
He composed symphonies, symphonic poems, as well as works for chamber orchestra, small ensembles and solo instruments.
Outside his native country he is best known as a composer of music for such films as War and Peace, the 1966–67 film directed by Sergei Bondarchuk, Ivan's Childhood and Andrei Rublev for Andrei Tarkovsky.
[3] Ovchinnikov was named a People's Artist of the RSFSR in 1986.