Alexander Pirumov (1930–1995) was a Russian composer and teacher. He was born in Tbilisi on February 6, 1930, and died in Moscow on July 20, 1995. He was buried at the Armenian Cemetery. In 1983, he received the title Honored Artist of the RSFSR.
Pirumov completed music school in 1949, studying piano. He then studied at the Yerevan Conservatory with Eduard Mirzoyan. After moving to Moscow in 1952, he graduated from the Moscow Conservatory in 1956, where he studied with Dmitri Kabalevsky. He completed postgraduate study there in 1960, also under Kabalevsky.
From 1962, Pirumov taught composition and polyphony at the Moscow Conservatory; he became a professor in 1984. His students included Dmitry Chupatov, Alexander Rabinovich, Mark Minkov, Sergei Kolmanovsky, Elena Firsova, Efrem Podgaits, and Alisher Latif-Zade.
His works include four symphonies, two string quartets, the poem-cantata “26,” “Requiem in Memory of a Warrior Brother,” a concerto-variations for piano and orchestra, a prelude and toccata for piano, and a concerto for oboe and chamber orchestra. He also wrote a piano sonatina, a cello sonata, a collection of 12 preludes and fugues for piano, choral cycles, romances to poems by Abulkasim Lahuti, and film music. His film credits include A Man Changes His Skin, Stone Kilometers, Listen!, Across Rus, and The Picture of Dorian Gray.