100 Notable alumni of
Moscow Tchaikovsky Conservatory
Moscow Tchaikovsky Conservatory is 114th in the world, 37th in Europe, and 3rd in Russia by aggregated alumni prominence. Below is the list of 100 notable alumni from Moscow Tchaikovsky Conservatory sorted by their wiki pages popularity. The directory includes famous graduates and former students along with research and academic staff.
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Sergei Rachmaninoff
- Years
- 1873-1943 (aged 70)
- Enrolled in Moscow Tchaikovsky Conservatory
- Studied in 1885-1892
- Occupations
- composerpianistconductormusicologistvirtuoso
- Biography
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Sergei Vasilyevich Rachmaninoff was a Russian composer, virtuoso pianist, and conductor. Rachmaninoff is widely considered one of the finest pianists of his day and, as a composer, one of the last great representatives of Romanticism in Russian classical music. Early influences of Tchaikovsky, Rimsky-Korsakov, and other Russian composers gave way to a thoroughly personal idiom notable for its song-like melodicism, expressiveness and rich orchestral colours. The piano is featured prominently in Rachmaninoff's compositional output and he made a point of using his skills as a performer to fully explore the expressive and technical possibilities of the instrument.
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Andrei Konchalovsky
- Enrolled in Moscow Tchaikovsky Conservatory
- Studied in 1957-1959
- Occupations
- film directorfilm producerscreenwriteractortheatrical director
- Biography
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Andrei Sergeyevich Mikhalkov-Konchalovsky OZO is a Russian filmmaker and stage director who has worked in Soviet, Hollywood, and contemporary Russian cinema. He is a laureate of the Order "For Merit to the Fatherland", a National Order of the Legion of Honour, an Officer of the Order of Arts and Letters, a Cavalier of the Order of Merit of the Italian Republic and a People's Artist of the RSFSR. He is the son of writer Sergey Mikhalkov, and the brother of filmmaker Nikita Mikhalkov.
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Nikolay Baskov
- Occupations
- opera singertelevision presenteractoruniversity teachersinger
- Biography
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Nikolay Baskov is a Russian tenor who performs in both operatic and popular music styles. His honors include commendations as Meritorious Artist and People's Artist of the Russian Federation, as well as People's Artist of Ukraine.
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Aram Khachaturian
- Enrolled in Moscow Tchaikovsky Conservatory
- Studied in 1929-1934
- Studied in 1934-1936
- Occupations
- classical composerconductorchoreographermusicologistmusic pedagogue
- Biography
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Aram Ilyich Khachaturian was a Soviet and Armenian composer and conductor. He is considered one of the leading Soviet composers.
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Alexander Scriabin
- Occupations
- composerpianistuniversity teacher
- Biography
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Alexander Nikolayevich Scriabin was a Russian composer and virtuoso pianist. Before 1903, Scriabin was greatly influenced by the music of Frédéric Chopin and Franz Liszt, and composed in a relatively tonal, late Romantic idiom. Later, and independently of his influential contemporary, Arnold Schoenberg, Scriabin developed a much more dissonant musical language that had transcended usual tonality – but was not atonal, which accorded with his personal brand of metaphysics. Scriabin found significant appeal in the concept of Gesamtkunstwerk as well as synesthesia, and associated colours with the various harmonic tones of his scale, while his colour-coded circle of fifths was also inspired by theosophy. He is often considered the main Russian Symbolist composer and a major representative of the Russian Silver Age.
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Dmitry Malikov
- Occupations
- singercomposerpianistrecord produceractor
- Biography
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Dmitry Yurievich Malikov is a Russian actor, composer, singer and a recent record producer.
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Aleksandra Pakhmutova
- Enrolled in Moscow Tchaikovsky Conservatory
- Studied in 1948-1953
- Occupations
- composerfilm score composer
- Biography
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Aleksandra Nikolayevna Pakhmutova is a Soviet and Russian composer. She has remained one of the best-known figures in Soviet and later Russian popular music since she first achieved fame in her homeland in the 1960s. She was awarded the People's Artist of the USSR in 1984.
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Mstislav Rostropovich
- Occupations
- composerconductormusic pedagoguecellistpianist
- Biography
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Mstislav Leopoldovich Rostropovich was a Soviet and Russian cellist and conductor. He is considered by many to be the greatest cellist of the 20th century. In addition to his interpretations and technique, he was well known for both inspiring and commissioning new works, which enlarged the cello repertoire more than any cellist before or since. He inspired and premiered over 100 pieces, forming long-standing friendships and artistic partnerships with composers including Dmitri Shostakovich, Sergei Prokofiev, Henri Dutilleux, Witold Lutosławski, Olivier Messiaen, Luciano Berio, Krzysztof Penderecki, Alfred Schnittke, Norbert Moret, Andreas Makris, Leonard Bernstein, Aram Khachaturian and Benjamin Britten.
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Sviatoslav Richter
- Occupations
- composerpianist
- Biography
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Sviatoslav Teofilovich Richter was a Soviet pianist who is frequently regarded as one of the greatest pianists of all time. He is known for the "depth of his interpretations, his virtuoso technique, and his vast repertoire."
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Alfred Schnittke
- Occupations
- composerpianistmusic pedagogueuniversity teacherfilm score composer
- Biography
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Alfred Garrievich Schnittke was a Soviet composer of Jewish-German descent. Among the most performed and recorded composers of late 20th-century classical music, he is described by the musicologist Ivan Moody as a "composer who was concerned in his music to depict the moral and spiritual struggles of contemporary man in [...] depth and detail."
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Vladimir Shainsky
- Enrolled in Moscow Tchaikovsky Conservatory
- Studied in 1945
- Occupations
- composersongwriterfilm score composerpianistactor
- Biography
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Vladimir Yakovlevich Shainsky was a Soviet and Russian composer. He was a recipient of the People's Artist of the RSFSR (1986).
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Rodion Shchedrin
- Enrolled in Moscow Tchaikovsky Conservatory
- Studied in 1950-1955
- Occupations
- composerpianistmusic pedagoguelibrettistuniversity teacher
- Biography
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Rodion Konstantinovich Shchedrin is a Soviet and Russian composer and pianist, winner of USSR State Prize (1972), the Lenin Prize (1984), and the State Prize of the Russian Federation (1992), and is a former member of the Inter-regional Deputies Group (1989–1991). He is also a citizen of Lithuania and Spain.
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Denis Matsuev
- Occupations
- pianist
- Biography
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Denis Leonidovich Matsuev is a Russian classical pianist.
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Lola Astanova
- Occupations
- pianistrecord producercomposer
- Biography
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Lola Astanova is a Russian-American pianist noted for her visual performance, and piano transcriptions.
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Kyōhei Sorita
- Occupations
- pianist
- Biography
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Kyōhei Sorita is a Japanese classical pianist and conductor. In 2021, he won second prize, ex aequo, at the XVIII International Chopin Piano Competition, the highest prize for a Japanese-born pianist in the competition since Mitsuko Uchida's second prize in 1970.
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Galina Vishnevskaya
- Enrolled in Moscow Tchaikovsky Conservatory
- Studied in 1966
- Occupations
- actorsingeropera singermusic pedagoguebiographer
- Biography
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Galina Pavlovna Vishnevskaya was a Russian soprano opera singer and recitalist who was named a People's Artist of the USSR in 1966. She was the wife of cellist Mstislav Rostropovich, and mother to their two daughters, Olga and Elena Rostropovich.
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Lyubov Kazarnovskaya
- Occupations
- actorsingeropera singer
- Biography
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Lyubov Yurievna Kazarnovskaya is a Russian operatic soprano who has sung leading roles in opera houses around the world. She has recorded for Deutsche Grammophon, Philips, and Naxos Records, amongst others. She has her own music show on Russian television and a weekly one-hour radio program, "Vocalissimo", on Radio Orphej.
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David Oistrakh
- Occupations
- violinist
- Biography
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David Fyodorovich Oistrakh, orig. German: Eustrach, was a Soviet classical violinist, violist and conductor.
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Ivo Pogorelić
- Occupations
- pianistacademic musician
- Biography
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Ivo Pogorelić is a Yugoslav-born Croatian pianist. He is known for his sometimes unorthodox interpretations, which have brought him a sizable following and both praise and criticism from musical experts. A musician of wide repertoire, his recordings include works by a variety of composers from the early 18th through 20th centuries.
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Alexander Vasilyevich Alexandrov
- Occupations
- composerconductorchoir directormusic pedagoguemilitary personnel
- Biography
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Alexander Vasilyevich Alexandrov was a Soviet and Russian composer and founder of the Alexandrov Ensemble, who wrote the music for the State Anthem of the Soviet Union, which in 2000 became the national anthem of Russia (with new lyrics). During his career, he also worked as a professor of the Moscow Conservatory, and became a Doctor of Arts. His work was recognized by the awards of the title of People's Artist of the USSR and two Stalin Prizes.
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Maksim Dunayevsky
- Enrolled in Moscow Tchaikovsky Conservatory
- Studied in 1970
- Occupations
- composerfilm score composerconductorpresentertelevision presenter
- Biography
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Maksim Isaakovich Dunayevsky is a Soviet and Russian composer. People's Artist of Russia (2006). He is the artistic director and chairman of the artistic council of the Moscow Regional Philharmonic since 2015.
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Eduard Artemyev
- Enrolled in Moscow Tchaikovsky Conservatory
- Studied in 1960
- Occupations
- composerfilm score composer
- Biography
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Eduard Nikolayevich Artemyev is a Soviet and Russian composer of electronic music and film scores. Outside of Russia, he is mostly known for his soundtracks for films such as At Home Among Strangers, Solaris, Siberiade, Stalker and Burnt by the Sun. He was awarded the title People's Artist of Russia in 1999.
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Dmitri Kabalevsky
- Occupations
- classical composerconductorchoreographermusicologistmusic pedagogue
- Biography
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Dmitry Borisovich Kabalevsky was a Soviet composer and teacher of Russian gentry descent.
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Gidon Kremer
- Occupations
- conductorviolinist
- Biography
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Gidon Kremer is a Latvian classical violinist, artistic director, and founder of Kremerata Baltica.
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Sofia Gubaidulina
- Occupations
- composerfilm score composermusician
- Biography
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Sofia Asgatovna Gubaidulina is a Soviet-Russian composer and an established international figure. Major orchestras around the world have commissioned and performed her works. She is considered one of the foremost Russian composers of the second half of the 20th century.
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Valery Khalilov
- Occupations
- conductorcomposer
- Biography
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Valery Mikhaylovich Khalilov was an Uzbek-born Russian military band conductor and composer. A lieutenant general in the Russian military, he was the Senior Director of Music of the Military Band Service of the Armed Forces of Russia, most famously conducting the massed Russian military bands at the annual "Victory Day" parade held in the Moscow's Red Square a record 14 times. He died when the plane he was on, en route to Syria, crashed into the Black Sea off Sochi, Russia.
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Mischa Maisky
- Occupations
- cellist
- Biography
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Mischa Maisky is a Soviet-born Israeli cellist.
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Alexey Rybnikov
- Enrolled in Moscow Tchaikovsky Conservatory
- Studied in 1962-1967
- Occupations
- composerfilm score composermusician
- Biography
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Alexey Lvovich Rybnikov is a modern Russian composer.
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Arno Babajanian
- Occupations
- composerpianistfilm score composermusic pedagogue
- Biography
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Arno Babajanian was a Soviet and Armenian composer and pianist. He was made a People's Artist of the USSR in 1971.
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Reinhold Glière
- Enrolled in Moscow Tchaikovsky Conservatory
- 1894-1900 studied composing, music theory, and violin performance
- Occupations
- composerconductorchoreographermusicologistmusic pedagogue
- Biography
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Reinhold Moritzevich Glière, was a Russian and Soviet composer of Ukrainian, German and Polish descent. In 1938, he was awarded the title of People's Artist of the USSR.
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Hibla Gerzmava
- Enrolled in Moscow Tchaikovsky Conservatory
- Studied in 1994
- Occupations
- singeropera singer
- Biography
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Hibla Gerzmava is an Abkhazian-Russian operatic soprano who currently resides in Moscow.
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Yury Bashmet
- Occupations
- conductormusic pedagogueviolinistviolist
- Biography
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Yuri Abramovich Bashmet is a Russian conductor, violinist, and violist.
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Yevgeny Krylatov
- Occupations
- composerfilm score composerpianist
- Biography
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Yevgeny Pavlovich Krylatov was a Soviet and Russian composer who wrote songs for over 120 Soviet and Russian movies and animated films.
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Gara Garayev
- Enrolled in Moscow Tchaikovsky Conservatory
- Studied in 1946
- Occupations
- composerpianistfilm score composermusic pedagoguedeputy
- Biography
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Gara Abulfaz oghlu Garayev, also spelled as Qara Qarayev or Kara Karayev, was a prominent Soviet Azerbaijani composer. Garayev wrote nearly 110 musical pieces, including ballets, operas, symphonic and chamber pieces, solos for piano, cantatas, songs, and marches, and rose to prominence not only in Azerbaijan SSR, but also in the rest of the Soviet Union and worldwide.
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Mikhail Pletnev
- Occupations
- composerpianistconductor
- Biography
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Mikhail Vasilievich Pletnev is a Russian pianist, conductor, and composer.
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Radu Lupu
- Occupations
- pianistmusician
- Biography
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Radu Lupu was a Romanian pianist. He was widely recognized as one of the greatest pianists of his time. Born in Galați, Romania, Lupu began studying piano at the age of six. Two of his major piano teachers were Florica Musicescu, who also taught Dinu Lipatti, and Heinrich Neuhaus, who also taught Sviatoslav Richter and Emil Gilels. From 1966 to 1969, he won three of the world's most prestigious piano competitions: the Van Cliburn International Piano Competition (1966), the George Enescu International Piano Competition (1967), and the Leeds International Pianoforte Competition (1969). These victories launched Lupu's international career, and he appeared with all of the major orchestras and at all of the major festivals and music capitals of the world.
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Sergei Ivanovich Taneyev
- Occupations
- classical composermusicologistmusic pedagoguemusic theoristuniversity teacher
- Biography
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Sergey Ivanovich Taneyev was a Russian composer, pianist, teacher of composition, music theorist and author.
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Dang Thai Son
- Occupations
- pianistcomposerpiano teacher
- Biography
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Đặng Thái Sơn is a Vietnamese-Canadian classical pianist. In 1980, he won the X International Chopin Piano Competition in Warsaw, becoming the first pianist from Asia to do so. He has received particular acclaim for the sonority and poetry in his interpretations of Chopin and the French repertoire.
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Nikolai Medtner
- Occupations
- composerpianistuniversity teacher
- Biography
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Nikolai Karlovich Medtner was a Russian composer and virtuoso pianist. After a period of comparative obscurity in the 25 years immediately after his death, he is now becoming recognized as one of the most significant Russian composers for the piano.
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Andrei Eshpai
- Enrolled in Moscow Tchaikovsky Conservatory
- Studied in 1953
- Occupations
- composerpianistfilm score composermusic pedagogue
- Biography
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Andrei Yakovlevich Eshpai was an ethnic Mari (Russian and Soviet) composer. He was awarded the title of People's Artist of the USSR in 1981.
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Maxim Shostakovich
- Occupations
- pianistconductor
- Biography
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Maxim Dmitriyevich Shostakovich is a Soviet, Russian and American conductor and pianist. He is the second child of the composer Dmitri Shostakovich and Nina Varzar. Honored Artist of the RSFSR (1978).
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Sergei Lemeshev
- Enrolled in Moscow Tchaikovsky Conservatory
- Studied in 1921-1925
- Occupations
- theatrical directoropera singersingerwriter
- Biography
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Sergei Yakovlevich Lemeshev was a Russian tenor and actor.
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Boris Berezovsky
- Occupations
- pianist
- Biography
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Boris Vadimovich Berezovsky is a Russian pianist.
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Tikhon Khrennikov
- Enrolled in Moscow Tchaikovsky Conservatory
- Studied in 1936
- Occupations
- composerchoreographermusicologistuniversity teacherpianist
- Biography
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Tikhon Nikolayevich Khrennikov was a Russian and Soviet composer, pianist, and leader of the Union of Soviet Composers, who was also known for his political activities. He wrote three symphonies, four piano concertos, two violin concertos, two cello concertos, operas, operettas, ballets, chamber music, incidental music and film music.
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Myroslav Skoryk
- Occupations
- composermusicologistmusic pedagogue
- Biography
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Myroslav Skoryk, 13 July 1938 – 1 June 2020) was a Ukrainian composer and teacher. His music is contemporary in style and contains idioms from diverse sources including German, Welsh, English, and Eastern European artistic traditions.
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Samvel Yervinyan
- Occupations
- composerviolinist
- Biography
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Samvel Yervinyan is an Armenian violinist and composer.
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Irina Gribulina
- Occupations
- composerpoetsongwriterwritersinger
- Biography
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Irina Yevgenevna Gribulina is a Russian pop singer, composer, poet. She was the winner of the Television Festival Pesnya goda' 87.
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Dmitri Kogan
- Occupations
- musicianviolinist
- Biography
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Dmitri Pavlovich Kogan was a Russian violinist and an Honoured Artist of the Russian Federation.
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Nicolai Ghiaurov
- Occupations
- singeropera singer
- Biography
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Nicolai Ghiaurov was a Bulgarian opera singer and one of the most famous basses of the postwar period. He was admired for his powerful, sumptuous voice, and was particularly associated with roles of Mussorgsky and Verdi. Ghiaurov married the Bulgarian pianist Zlatina Mishakova in 1956 and Italian soprano Mirella Freni in 1978, and the two singers frequently performed together. They lived in Modena until Ghiaurov's death in 2004 of a heart attack.
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Vladimir Jurowski
- Occupations
- conductormusic directorcomposer
- Biography
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Vladimir Mikhailovich Jurowski is a Russian conductor. He is the son of conductor Michail Jurowski, and grandson of Soviet film music composer Vladimir Michailovich Jurowski.
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Vladimir Martynov
- Enrolled in Moscow Tchaikovsky Conservatory
- Studied in 1970
- Occupations
- composermusicologist
- Biography
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Vladimir Ivanovich Martynov is a Russian composer, known for his compositions in the concerto, orchestral music, chamber music, and choral music genres.
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Irina Arkhipova
- Occupations
- singeropera singermusic pedagoguepoliticianopinion journalist
- Biography
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Irina Konstantinovna Arkhipova was a Soviet and Russian mezzo-soprano, and later contralto, opera singer. She sang leading roles first in Russia at the Sverdlovsk Opera and the Bolshoi Theatre, and then throughout Europe and in the United States. People's Artist of the USSR (1966) and Hero of Socialist Labour (1984).
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Zacharia Paliashvili
- Occupations
- composermusic pedagogue
- Biography
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Zacharia Petres dze Paliashvili, also known as Zachary Petrovich Paliashvili (Russian: Захарий Петрович Палиашви́ли, Zacharij Petrovič Paliašvili; August 16, 1871 – October 6, 1933), was a Georgian composer. Regarded as one of the founders of the Georgian classical music, his work is known for its eclectic fusion of folk songs and stories with 19th-century Romantic classical themes. He was the founder of the Georgian Philharmonic Society and later, the head of the Tbilisi State Conservatoire. The Georgian National Opera and Ballet Theater of Tbilisi was named in his honor in 1937. Notably, Paliashvili's music serves as the basis of the National Anthem of Georgia.
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Yevgeny Svetlanov
- Occupations
- composerconductorpianist
- Biography
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Yevgeny Fyodorovich Svetlanov was a Russian conductor, composer and a pianist.
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Antonina Miliukova
- Years
- 1848-1917 (aged 69)
- Occupations
- pianist
- Biography
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Antonina Ivanovna Miliukova was the wife of Russian composer Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky from 1877 until his death in 1893. After marriage she was known as Antonina Tchaikovskaya.
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Igor Oistrakh
- Occupations
- conductormusic pedagogueuniversity teacherviolinist
- Biography
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Igor Davidovich Oistrakh was a Soviet and Russian violinist. He was described by Encyclopædia Britannica as "noted for his lean, modernist interpretations."
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Edison Denisov
- Enrolled in Moscow Tchaikovsky Conservatory
- Studied in 1951-1956
- Occupations
- composermusicologistuniversity teacherfilm score composermathematician
- Biography
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Edison Vasilievich Denisov was a Russian composer in the so-called "Underground", "alternative" or "nonconformist" division of Soviet music.
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Elisabeth Leonskaja
- Occupations
- pianistmusic pedagogueeducator
- Biography
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Elisabeth Leonskaja is a Soviet and Austrian pianist. She was born to a family of Jewish and Polish extraction living in Tbilisi, then the capital of the Georgian Soviet Socialist Republic.
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Gregor Piatigorsky
- Occupations
- cellistmusicianmusic pedagoguecomposer
- Biography
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Gregor Piatigorsky was a Russian-born American cellist.
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Alexander Gretchaninov
- Enrolled in Moscow Tchaikovsky Conservatory
- Studied in 1890
- Occupations
- composerconductormusic pedagogue
- Biography
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Alexander Tikhonovich Gretchaninov was a Russian Romantic composer.
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Zakhar Bron
- Occupations
- musicianviolinistmusic pedagogueuniversity teacher
- Biography
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Zakhar Bron is a Russian violinist and violin pedagogue of Jewish, Polish and Romanian descent.
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Leonid Kharitonov
- Occupations
- conductorsingeropera singermilitary personnel
- Biography
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Leonid Mikhailovich Kharitonov was a Soviet and Russian bass-baritone (баритональный бас) singer. He was honored with People's Artist of the RSFSR and Honored Artist of RSFSR. In the West he was noted for his 1965 video of The Song of the Volga Boatmen.
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Alexander Siloti
- Occupations
- composerpianistconductormusic pedagogueprofessor
- Biography
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Alexander Ilyich Siloti was a Russian virtuoso pianist, conductor and composer.
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Oscar Feltsman
- Occupations
- composermusician
- Biography
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Oscar Borisovich Feltsman was a Ukrainian-born composer of Lithuanian Jewish descent. He was the father of Vladimir Feltsman.
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Vladimir Fedoseyev
- Occupations
- conductormusic pedagoguebayanistbayan
- Biography
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Vladimir Ivanovich Fedoseyev is a Soviet and Russian conductor, accordionist, teacher. People's Artist of the USSR (1980). Laureate of the USSR State Prize (1989) and the Glinka State Prize of the RSFSR (1970). Full Commander of the Order "For Merit to the Fatherland". Artistic director and chief conductor of the Tchaikovsky Symphony Orchestra since 1974.
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Tofig Guliyev
- Occupations
- conductorcomposerpianistfilm score composer
- Biography
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Tofig Alakbar oglu Guliyev was an Azerbaijani composer, pianist, and conductor.
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Veljo Tormis
- Occupations
- composerfilm score composermusic pedagoguefolkloristprofessor
- Biography
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Veljo Tormis was an Estonian composer, regarded as one of the great contemporary choral composers and one of the most important composers of the 20th century in Estonia. Internationally, his fame arises chiefly from his extensive body of choral music, which exceeds 500 individual choral songs, most of it a cappella. The great majority of these pieces are based on traditional ancient Estonian folksongs (regilaulud), either textually, melodically, or merely stylistically.
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Boris Alexandrovich Alexandrov
- Occupations
- composerconductormusic pedagoguesongwritermusician
- Biography
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Boris Alexandrovich Alexandrov was a Soviet and Russian composer and, from 1946 to 1986, the second head of the Alexandrov Ensemble which was founded by his father, Alexander Vasilyevich Alexandrov. Alexandrov reached the rank of Major-General and was awarded the order of Hero of Socialist Labour, the Lenin Prize and the State Prize of the USSR, and named People's Artist of the USSR.
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Sergei Lyapunov
- Occupations
- composerpianistmusic pedagogueuniversity teacher
- Biography
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Sergei Mikhailovich Lyapunov was a Russian composer, pianist and conductor.
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Kirill Kondrashin
- Occupations
- conductor
- Biography
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Kirill Petrovich Kondrashin, was a Soviet and Russian conductor.
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Youri Egorov
- Occupations
- pianist
- Biography
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Youri Aleksandrovich Egorov was a Soviet and Monegasque classical pianist.
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Eliso Virsaladze
- Occupations
- pianistmusic pedagogue
- Biography
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Eliso Virsaladze is a Soviet and Georgian pianist.
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Lazar Berman
- Occupations
- pianist
- Biography
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Lazar Naumovich Berman was a Soviet Russian classical pianist, Honoured Artist of the RSFSR (1988). He was hailed for a huge, thunderous technique that made him a thrilling interpreter of Liszt and Rachmaninoff and a late representative of the grand school of Russian Romantic pianism. Emil Gilels described him as a "phenomenon of the musical world".
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Rudolf Barshai
- Occupations
- conductorviolist
- Biography
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Rudolf Borisovich Barshai was a Soviet and Russian conductor and violist. The Rudolf Barshai International Strings Competition was established in 2020.
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Lev Oborin
- Occupations
- pianistcomposermusic pedagogueuniversity teacher
- Biography
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Lev Nikolayevich Oborin was a Soviet and Russian pianist, composer and pedagogue. He was the winner of the first International Chopin Piano Competition in 1927.
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Olga Kern
- Occupations
- pianist
- Biography
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Olga Vladimirovna Kern is a Russian-American classical pianist.
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Alexander Goedicke
- Occupations
- composerpianistorganistmusic pedagogueuniversity teacher
- Biography
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Alexander Fyodorovich Goedicke was a Soviet and Russian composer and pianist.
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Eduard Khanok
- Occupations
- composersongwriter
- Biography
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Eduard Semyonovich Khanok is a Soviet and Belarusian musician and composer. Honored Worker of Culture of the Byelorussian SSR (1982). People's Artist of Belarus (1996).
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Vadym Kholodenko
- Occupations
- pianist
- Biography
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Vadym Kholodenko is a Ukrainian pianist, and winner of the gold medal at the Fourteenth Van Cliburn International Piano Competition, who captured the attention of jury, audience, and critics alike for "mesmerizing and exhilarating" performances that brought the crowd to their feet, " him like a rock star".
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Abdylas Maldybaev
- Occupations
- opera singersingercomposeractorpolitician
- Biography
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Abdylas Maldybaevich Maldybaev was a Kyrgyz composer, actor, and operatic tenor singer. Maldybaev was one of the composers of the state anthem of the Kirghiz SSR and is still renowned for his operatic composition. He helped popularize Kyrgyz music by skillfully using Western European techniques. The Kyrgyz one som banknote pictures him.
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Bella Davidovich
- Occupations
- pianistcomposermusic pedagogueuniversity teacher
- Biography
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Bella Mikhaylovna Davidovich is a Soviet-born American pianist.
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Yevgeny Brusilovsky
- Occupations
- composermusic pedagogue
- Biography
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Yevgeny Grigoryevich Brusilovsky was a Soviet and Russian composer who settled in Kazakhstan. He wrote the first Kazakh opera, co-wrote the music for the anthem of the Kazakh Soviet Socialist Republic, and was a People's Artist of the Kazakh SSR.
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Iosif Kotek
- Occupations
- composer
- Biography
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Iosif Iosifovich Kotek, also seen as Josef or Yosif, was a Russian violinist and composer remembered for his association with Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky. He assisted Tchaikovsky with technical difficulties in the writing of the solo part in his Violin Concerto in D. He was also probably his lover at some point, although he was not exclusively homosexual, making him bisexual.
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Emin Sabitoglu
- Occupations
- composer
- Biography
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Emin Sabitoglu was a Soviet Azerbaijani composer, author of a lot of well-known Azerbaijani songs and music for films. People's actor of Azerbaijan.
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Valeri Kikta
- Occupations
- composermusic pedagoguefilm score composer
- Biography
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Valeri Grigoryevich Kikta is a Russian classical composer, a professor of the Moscow Conservatory.
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Antonina Nezhdanova
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- singeropera singermusic pedagogueuniversity teachermusic-learning theory
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Antonina Vasilyevna Nezhdanova, was a Russian and Soviet lyric coloratura soprano. An outstanding opera singer, she represented the Russian vocal school at its best.
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Sulkhan Tsintsadze
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- composermusic pedagogue
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Sulkhan Fyodorovich Tsintsadze, (August 23, 1925 in Gori, Transcaucasian SSR, Soviet Union – September 15, 1991 in Tbilisi, Georgia) was one of Georgia's foremost composers.
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Dmitry Shishkin
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- pianist
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Dmitry Igorevich Shishkin, born 12 February 1992, is a Russian classical pianist. He is best known for winning the 2nd prize at the XVI International Tchaikovsky Competition in 2019.
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Pavel Kogan
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- conductorviolinist
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Pavel Leonidovich Kogan is a Russian violinist and conductor who leaded the Moscow State Symphony Orchestra from 1989 until 2022.
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Dmitry Masleev
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- pianist
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Dmitry Masleev is a Russian pianist.
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Igor Luchenok
- Enrolled in Moscow Tchaikovsky Conservatory
- Studied in 1970
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- composermusic pedagoguefilm score composer
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Igor Mikhailovich Luchenok was a Belarusian composer, People's Artist of the Byelorussian SSR (and People's Artist of the USSR), and chairman of the Belarusian Union of Composers.
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Ivan Tasovac
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- pianistpoliticianconductorartistic director
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Ivan Tasovac was a Serbian pianist and manager. He served as the director of Belgrade Philharmonic Orchestra from 2001 to 2013. He also served as the Minister of Culture and Information in the Government of Serbia from 2013 to 2016 and was elected to the National Assembly of Serbia in the 2020 Serbian parliamentary election.
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Valery Afanassiev
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- pianistconductorpoetmusicianwriter
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Valery Afanassiev is a Russian pianist, writer and conductor.
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Nikolai Roslavets
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- composermusicologistmusic theoristuniversity teacherviolinist
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Nikolai Andreevich Roslavets was a significant Ukrainian modernist composer of Belorussian and Ukrainian origin. Roslavets was a convinced modernist and cosmopolitan thinker; his music was officially suppressed from 1930 onwards.
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Rosina Lhévinne
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- pianistmusic pedagogue
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Rosina Lhévinne was a Ukrainian pianist and famed pedagogue born in Kyiv, Ukraine, then a part of the Russian Empire.
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Dmitri Smirnov
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- composerWikipedian
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Dmitri Nikolaevich Smirnov was a Russian-British composer and academic teacher, who also published as Dmitri N. Smirnov and D. Smirnov-Sadovsky. He wrote operas, symphonies, string quartets and other chamber music, and vocal music from song to oratorio. Many of his works were inspired by the art of William Blake.
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Mikhail Matyushin
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- composerpainterpublishervisual artistmusician
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Michael Vasilyevich Matyushin was a Russian painter and composer, leading member of the Russian avant-garde. In 1910–1913 Matyushin and his wife Elena Guro (1877–1913) were key members of the Union of the Youth, an association of Russian Futurists. Matyushin, a professional musician and amateur painter, studied physiology of human senses and developed his own concept of the fourth dimension connecting visual and musical arts, a theory that he put to practice in the classrooms of Leningrad Workshop of Vkhutein and INHUK (1918–1934) and summarized in his 1932 Reference of Colour (Cправочник по цвету). Matyushin conducted experiments at his Visiology Center (Zorved) to demonstrate that expanding visual sensitivity from retinian optical centers would enable the discovery of "new organic substance and rhythm in the apprehension of space." He tried to teach himself and his students to see with both eyes, each independently, and to widen the field of their vision. He describes some of his work and ideas in a long essay titled "An Artist's Experience of the New Space."
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Anatoly Novikov
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- conductorcomposerchoir directorfilm score composerchorus master
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Anatoli Grigoriévitch Novikov was a Soviet composer, a choral conductor and a political activist.
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Vyacheslav Ovchinnikov
- Enrolled in Moscow Tchaikovsky Conservatory
- Studied in 1962
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- composerconductorfilm score composer
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Vyacheslav Aleksandrovich Ovchinnikov was a Soviet and Russian composer.
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Emil von Sauer
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- composerpianist
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Emil Georg Conrad von Sauer was a German composer, pianist, score editor, and music (piano) teacher. He was a pupil of Franz Liszt and one of the most distinguished pianists of his generation. Josef Hofmann called von Sauer "a truly great virtuoso." Martin Krause, another Liszt pupil, called von Sauer "the legitimate heir of Liszt; he has more of his charm and geniality than any other Liszt pupil."
