Musicology Annotation << Back Epistolary duo of composers Dolinskaya Yelena B. The article considers the history of correspondence of two composers - Edison Denisov and Sergey Slonimsky. Letters of musicians become important documents of the history of Russian music and to some extent continue the most valuable epistolary duets - Tchaikovsky and Taneyev, Rachmaninoff and Medtner, Prokofi ev and Myaskovsky. Not all musicians keep a diary, not often diary records are published. For example, Alfred Schnittke, who did not write memoirs himself, was captured in an interview genre with Alexander Ivashkin. Edison Denisov speaks about himself in the Notebooks published by V.S. Tsenova — a publication for some people in a discussion, since the composer’s notes are focused on capturing important facts of his life and are not always (always not) meant for a wide publication. Slonimsky does not keep a diary, but this composer-writer has a number of works where he not only describes important facts of the history of Russian music, but also tells a lot about himself. In this regard, the correspondence of the sixties is just beginning its movement towards the reader. It is valuable that one of the correspondents, Sergey Mikhailovich Slonimsky, became a participant in the publication. Keywords: Sergey Slonimsky, Edison Denisov, correspondence, 1960s-1980s, music of the 20th century, Alfred Schnittke, Sophia Gubaidulina. DOI: 10.25791/musicology.10.2018.204 Contacts: E-mail: se.dolinskiy@gmail.com Pp. 44-48.