100 Notable alumni of
St. Petersburg State Conservatory
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St. Petersburg State Conservatory is 228th in the world, 78th in Europe, and 6th in Russia by aggregated alumni prominence. Below is the list of 100 notable alumni from St. Petersburg State 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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Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
- Enrolled in St. Petersburg State Conservatory
- Studied in 1865
- Occupations
- music criticuniversity teacherdiaristmusic educatorchoreographer
- Biography
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Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky was a Russian composer of the Romantic period. He was the first Russian composer whose music made a lasting impression internationally. Tchaikovsky wrote some of the most popular concert and theatrical music in the classical repertoire, including the 1812 Overture, his First Piano Concerto, the Violin Concerto, the Romeo and Juliet Overture-Fantasy, several symphonies, the opera Eugene Onegin, and the ballets Swan Lake, The Sleeping Beauty and The Nutcracker.
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Sergei Rachmaninoff
- Years
- 1873-1943 (aged 70)
- Enrolled in St. Petersburg State Conservatory
- Studied in 1882-1885
- Occupations
- conductorpianistvirtuosomusicologistcomposer
- 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, dense contrapuntal textures, and rich orchestral colours. The piano is featured prominently in Rachmaninoff's compositional output and he used his skills as a performer to fully explore the expressive and technical possibilities of the instrument.
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Dmitri Shostakovich
- Enrolled in St. Petersburg State Conservatory
- Studied in 1919-1925
- Occupations
- composeruniversity teacherpianistdirectorclassical composer
- Biography
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Dmitri Dmitriyevich Shostakovich was a Soviet composer and pianist who became internationally known after the premiere of his First Symphony in 1926 and thereafter was regarded as a major composer.
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Sergei Prokofiev
- Occupations
- pianistconductorcomposer
- Biography
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Sergei Sergeyevich Prokofiev was a Russian composer, pianist, and conductor who later worked in the Soviet Union. As the creator of acknowledged masterpieces across numerous music genres, he is regarded as one of the major composers of the 20th century. His works include such widely heard pieces as the March from The Love for Three Oranges, the suite Lieutenant Kijé, the ballet Romeo and Juliet—from which "Dance of the Knights" is taken—and Peter and the Wolf. Of the established forms and genres in which he worked, he created—excluding juvenilia—seven completed operas, seven symphonies, eight ballets, five piano concertos, two violin concertos, a cello concerto, a symphony-concerto for cello and orchestra, and nine completed piano sonatas.
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Anna Netrebko
- Occupations
- actorrecording artistopera singer
- Biography
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Anna Yuryevna Netrebko is a Russian operatic soprano who has performed at the Salzburg Festival, Metropolitan Opera, Vienna State Opera, the Royal Opera and La Scala.
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Eduard Khil
- Enrolled in St. Petersburg State Conservatory
- Studied in 1960
- Occupations
- music educatorsinger
- Biography
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Eduard Anatolyevich Khil, often anglicized as Edward Hill, was a Russian baritone singer.
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Sergei Diaghilev
- Occupations
- editing staffchoreographerentrepreneurimpresarioart critic
- Biography
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Sergei Pavlovich Diaghilev, also known as Serge Diaghilev, was a Russian art critic, patron, ballet impresario and founder of the Ballets Russes, from which many famous dancers and choreographers would arise.
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Irina Ponarovskaya
- Occupations
- presentertelevision presenteractorsinger
- Biography
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Irina Vitalyevna Ponarovskaya is a Soviet and Russian singer and film actress, popular in the 1980s and the 1990s.
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Valery Gergiev
- Occupations
- conductormusic director
- Biography
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Valery Abisalovich Gergiev is a Russian conductor and opera company director. He is currently general director and artistic director of the Mariinsky Theatre and of the Bolshoi Theatre and artistic director of the White Nights Festival in St. Petersburg. He was formerly chief conductor of the Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra and of the Munich Philharmonic.
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George Balanchine
- Occupations
- choreographerscreenwriterscenographerdancerballet dancer
- Biography
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George Balanchine was a Georgian-American ballet choreographer, recognized as one of the most influential choreographers of the 20th century. Styled as the father of American ballet, he co-founded the New York City Ballet and remained its artistic director for more than 35 years. His choreography is characterized by plotless ballets with minimal costume and décor, performed to classical and neoclassical music.
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Clara Rockmore
- Occupations
- violinistcomposermusician
- Biography
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Clara Reisenberg Rockmore was a Litvak classical violin prodigy and a virtuoso performer of the theremin, an electronic musical instrument. She was the sister of pianist Nadia Reisenberg.
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Jascha Heifetz
- Occupations
- violinistmusic educatorteacher
- Biography
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Jascha Heifetz was a Russian-American violinist, widely regarded as one of the greatest violinists of all time. Born in Vilnius, he was soon recognized as a child prodigy and was trained in the Russian violin school in St. Petersburg. Accompanying his parents to escape the violence of the Russian Revolution, he moved to the United States as a teenager, where his Carnegie Hall debut was rapturously received. Fritz Kreisler, another leading violinist of the twentieth century, said after hearing Heifetz's debut, "We might as well take our fiddles and break them across our knees."
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Teodor Currentzis
- Enrolled in St. Petersburg State Conservatory
- Studied in 1994-1999
- Occupations
- conductormusiciancomposeractorpoet
- Biography
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Teodor Currentzis is a Greek and Russian conductor, musician and actor. He is artistic director of the ensembles MusicAeterna and Utopia and was chief conductor of the SWR Symphonieorchester from 2018 to 2024.
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Georgy Sviridov
- Enrolled in St. Petersburg State Conservatory
- Studied in 1936-1941
- Occupations
- pianistfilm score composercomposer
- Biography
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Georgy Vasilyevich Sviridov was a Soviet and Russian composer. He is most widely known for his choral music, strongly influenced by the traditional chant of the Russian Orthodox Church, as well as his orchestral works which often celebrate elements of Russian culture.
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Mariss Jansons
- Occupations
- music educatorconductor
- Biography
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Mariss Ivars Georgs Jansons was a Latvian conductor, best known for his interpretations of Mahler, Strauss, and Russian composers such as Tchaikovsky, Rachmaninoff, and Shostakovich. During his lifetime he was often cited as among the world's leading conductors; in a 2015 Bachtrack poll, he was ranked by music critics as the world's third best living conductor. Jansons was long associated with the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra (BRSO; 2003–2019) and Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra (RCO; 2004–2015) as music director.
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Leon Theremin
- Enrolled in St. Petersburg State Conservatory
- Studied in 1916
- Occupations
- cellistinventorphysicistmusician
- Biography
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Lev Sergeyevich Termen, better known as Leon Theremin, was a Russian inventor, most famous for his invention of the theremin, one of the first electronic musical instruments and the first to be mass-produced. He also worked on early television research. His secret listening device, "The Thing", hung for seven years in plain view in the United States ambassador's Moscow office and enabled Soviet agents to secretly eavesdrop on conversations.
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Alexander Alexandrov
- Occupations
- military personnelchoir directorcomposermusic educatorconductor
- 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 the Russian Federation (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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Sergey Boyarskiy
- Occupations
- pianistactorguitaristpoliticianmusician
- Biography
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Sergey Boyarsky is a Russian political figure, deputy of the 7th and 8th State Dumas convocations.
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Grigory Sokolov
- Occupations
- music educatorpianist
- Biography
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Grigory Lipmanovich Sokolov is a Russian born Russian and Spanish pianist. He is among the most esteemed of living pianists, with his repertoire spanning composers from the Baroque period such as Bach, Couperin or Rameau up to Schoenberg and Arapov. He regularly tours Europe (excluding the UK).
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Sergei Roldugin
- Enrolled in St. Petersburg State Conservatory
- Studied in 1978
- Occupations
- cellistconductorbusinesspersonmusic educator
- Biography
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Sergei Pavlovich Roldugin is a Russian cellist and businessman based in St Petersburg. He is a close friend of Vladimir Putin. He has been implicated in several money laundering and offshore wealth schemes for Russian elites. Following the Russian invasion of Ukraine in 2022, the European Union sanctioned Roldugin.
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Dimitri Tiomkin
- Occupations
- film producerfilm score composerconductorcomposerpianist
- Biography
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Dimitri Zinovievich Tiomkin was a Russian and American film composer and conductor. Classically trained in Saint Petersburg before the Bolshevik Revolution, he moved to Berlin and then New York City after the Russian Revolution. In 1929, after the stock market crash, he moved to Hollywood, where he became best known for his scores for Western films, including Duel in the Sun, Red River, High Noon, The Big Sky, 55 Days at Peking, Gunfight at the O.K. Corral, Rio Bravo, and Last Train from Gun Hill.
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Elena Obraztsova
- Occupations
- opera directoropera singeractormusic educator
- Biography
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Elena Vasilyevna Obraztsova was a Soviet and Russian mezzo-soprano. She was awarded the People's Artist of the USSR in 1976 and Hero of Socialist Labour in 1990.
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Maria Yudina
- Occupations
- pianistmusic educatorclassical pianist
- Biography
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Maria Veniaminovna Yudina was a Soviet pianist.
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Anatoly Lyadov
- Occupations
- pedagogueuniversity teachercomposerclassical composerconductor
- Biography
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Anatoly Konstantinovich Lyadov was a Russian composer, teacher and conductor.
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Yuri Temirkanov
- Occupations
- opera directormusic educatorconductor
- Biography
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Yuri Khatuevich Temirkanov was a Soviet and Russian conductor, named a People's Artist of the USSR.
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Andrey Petrov
- Years
- 1930-2006 (aged 76)
- Occupations
- choreographerfilm score composercomposer
- Biography
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Andrei Pavlovich Petrov was a Soviet and Russian composer. He was named a People's Artist of the USSR in 1980. Andrey Petrov is known for his music for numerous classic Soviet films such as Walking the Streets of Moscow, Beware of the Car, and Office Romance.
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Yevgeny Mravinsky
- Occupations
- pianistmusic educatorconductor
- Biography
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Yevgeny Aleksandrovich Mravinsky was a Soviet and Russian conductor, pianist, and music pedagogue; he was a professor at Leningrad State Conservatory.
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Mikhail Kuzmin
- Occupations
- novelistcomposerlinguistpoettranslator
- Biography
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Mikhail Alekseevich Kuzmin was a Russian poet, musician and novelist, as well as a prominent contributor to the Silver Age of Russian Poetry.
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Efrem Zimbalist
- Occupations
- music educatorconductorcomposeruniversity teachermusic arranger
- Biography
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Efrem Zimbalist was a Russian and American concert violinist, composer, conductor and director of the Curtis Institute of Music.
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Mark Taimanov
- Occupations
- pianistnon-fiction writerengineeractorchess player
- Biography
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Mark Evgenievich Taimanov was one of the leading Soviet and Russian chess players, among the world's top 20 players from 1946 to 1971. A prolific chess author, Taimanov was awarded the title of Grandmaster in 1952 and in 1956 won the USSR Chess Championship. He was a World Championship Candidate in 1953 and 1971, and several opening variations are named after him. Taimanov was also a world-class concert pianist.
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Nikolai Myaskovsky
- Occupations
- music educatorpedagoguecomposeruniversity teachermusicologist
- Biography
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Nikolai Yakovlevich Myaskovsky, was a Russian and Soviet composer. He is sometimes referred to as the "Father of the Soviet Symphony". Myaskovsky was awarded the Stalin Prize five times.
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Heinrich Neuhaus
- Occupations
- pianistmusicologistmusic educatoruniversity teacher
- Biography
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Heinrich Gustav Neuhaus was a Russian and Soviet pianist and teacher. Part of a musical dynasty, he was of German descent. He taught at the Moscow Conservatory from 1922 to 1964. Neuhaus was also awarded the People's Artist of the RSFSR (1956).
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Semyon Bychkov
- Occupations
- music educatorconductor
- Biography
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Semyon Mayevich Bychkov is a Soviet-born American conductor. He is the chief conductor and artistic director of the Czech Philharmonic.
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Nikita Bogoslovsky
- Enrolled in St. Petersburg State Conservatory
- Studied in 1934
- Occupations
- presenteropinion journalisttelevision presenterpublic figureconductor
- Biography
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Nikita Vladimirovich Bogoslovsky was a Soviet and Russian composer. Author of more than 300 songs, 8 symphonies (1940–1991), 17 operettas and musical comedies, 58 soundtracks, and 52 scores for theater productions. Many of his songs were made for film.
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Anton Arensky
- Occupations
- conductoruniversity teacherpianistcomposermusic educator
- Biography
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Anton Stepanovich Arensky was a Russian composer of Romantic classical music, a pianist and a professor of music.
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Neeme Järvi
- Occupations
- conductor
- Biography
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Neeme Järvi is an Estonian and American conductor.
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Tugan Sokhiev
- Occupations
- conductormusic director
- Biography
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Tugan Taymurazovich Sokhiev is a Russian conductor.
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Nathan Milstein
- Occupations
- violinist
- Biography
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Nathan Mironovich Milstein was a Russian-American virtuoso violinist.
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Viktoriya Tokareva
- Occupations
- screenwriterwriterediting staff
- Biography
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Viktoriya Samuilovna Tokareva is a Soviet and Russian screenwriter and short story writer. Her work has been translated into English and is available in several anthologies as well as in The Talisman and Other Stories - a book of Tokareva's short stories translated by Rosamund Bartlett. She lives in Moscow, where she continues to write.
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Oleg Karavaychuk
- Occupations
- composerconductorpianistfilm score composer
- Biography
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Oleg Nikolayevich Karavaychuk was a Soviet and Russian composer, author of music for many films and theater performances.
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Vladimir Martynov
- Occupations
- musicologistmusic educatorcomposer
- 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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Anna Plisetskaya
- Enrolled in St. Petersburg State Conservatory
- Studied in 1993-1996
- Occupations
- ballerinachoreographeractor
- Biography
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Anna Alexandrovna Plisetskaya is a Russian ballerina, actress and producer.
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Vasily Petrenko
- Occupations
- conductor
- Biography
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Vasily Eduardovich Petrenko is a Russian-British conductor. He is currently music director of the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra.
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Boris Eifman
- Occupations
- choreographerballet master
- Biography
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Boris Yakovlevich Eifman is a Russian choreographer and artistic director. He has done more than fifty ballet productions.
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Nicolas Slonimsky
- Occupations
- composerlecturerpianistmusicologistconductor
- Biography
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Nicolas Slonimsky, born Nikolai Leonidovich Slonimskiy (Russian: Никола́й Леони́дович Слoнимский), was a Russian-American musicologist, conductor, pianist, lexicographer, and composer. Best known for his writing and musical reference work, he wrote the Thesaurus of Scales and Melodic Patterns and the Lexicon of Musical Invective, and edited Baker's Biographical Dictionary of Musicians.
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Leo Ornstein
- Occupations
- composerpianistmusic educatorpedagogue
- Biography
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Leo Ornstein was an American experimental composer and pianist of the early twentieth century. His performances of works by avant-garde composers and his own innovative and even shocking pieces made him a cause célèbre on both sides of the Atlantic. The bulk of his experimental works were written for piano.
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Alexander Gretchaninov
- Enrolled in St. Petersburg State Conservatory
- Studied in 1893
- Occupations
- composerpianistconductormusic educator
- Biography
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Alexander Tikhonovich Gretchaninov was a Russian Romantic composer.
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Vasily Solovyov-Sedoi
- Occupations
- composerpianistfilm score composerpolitician
- Biography
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Vasily Pavlovich Solovyov-Sedoy was a Soviet classical composer and songwriter who was born and died in Leningrad.
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Sergei Bortkiewicz
- Occupations
- classical composerpianist
- Biography
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Sergei Eduardovich Bortkiewicz was a Romantic composer and pianist. He moved to Vienna in 1922 and became a naturalized Austrian citizen in 1926.
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Concordia Antarova
- Occupations
- music educatorwriteropera singer
- Biography
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Concordia Antarova was a Russian contralto who starred in the Bolshoi Theater for more than twenty years. After her singing career ended, she wrote theosophical texts. She was recognized as an Honored Artist of the RSFSR in 1933.
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Mikhail Ippolitov-Ivanov
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- composerconductormusicologistmusic educator
- Biography
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Mikhail Mikhailovich Ippolitov-Ivanov was a Russian and Soviet composer, conductor and teacher. His music ranged from the late-Romantic era into the 20th century era.
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Vladimir Sofronitsky
- Occupations
- music educatorpianist
- Biography
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Vladimir Vladimirovich Sofronitsky was a Soviet-Russian classical pianist, best known as an interpreter of Alexander Scriabin and Frédéric Chopin. His daughter is the Canadian pianist Viviana Sofronitsky.
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Mischa Elman
- Occupations
- violinistmusician
- Biography
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Mischa Elman (Russian: Михаил Саулович Эльман; January 20, 1891 – April 5, 1967) was a Russian-American violinist famed for his passionate style, beautiful tone, and impeccable artistry and musicality.
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Alexander Tcherepnin
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- film score composercomposeruniversity teacherpianistmusicologist
- Biography
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Alexander Nikolayevich Tcherepnin was a Russian-born composer and pianist.
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Jāzeps Vītols
- Occupations
- conductoruniversity teacherpianistcomposermusic critic
- Biography
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Jāzeps Vītols was a Latvian composer, pedagogue and music critic. He is considered one of the fathers of Latvian classical music.
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Felix Blumenfeld
- Occupations
- conductorpianistclassical composerpedagogueprofessor
- Biography
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Felix Mikhailovich Blumenfeld was a Russian and Soviet composer and conductor of the Imperial Opera St-Petersburg, pianist, and teacher.
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Andre Kostelanetz
- Occupations
- conductorbandleadercomposermusic arrangerradio personality
- Biography
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Andre Kostelanetz was a Russian-American popular orchestral music conductor and arranger who was one of the major exponents of popular orchestra music.
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Sergei Slonimsky
- Occupations
- music educatorfilm score composercomposerpianistuniversity teacher
- Biography
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Sergei Mikhailovich Slonimsky was a Russian and Soviet composer, pianist and musicologist.
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Leonid Desyatnikov
- Enrolled in St. Petersburg State Conservatory
- Studied in 1978
- Occupations
- composerfilm score composer
- Biography
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Leonid Arkadievich Desyatnikov. He is a member of the St. Petersburg Union of Composers. Desyatnikov is the author of multiple operas, cantatas and compositions. His best known works are The Children of Rosenthal, his score for the ballet Lost Illusions, the opera Poor Liza; Gift, a cantata on poems by Gavriil Derzhavin; Dichterliebe und -leben, a vocal cycle on poems by Daniil Kharms and Nikolay Oleynikov; The Leaden Echo for voice(s) and instruments on the poem by Gerard Manley Hopkins; The Rite of Winter 1949, a symphony for choir, soloists and orchestra; and Songs of Bukovina for piano.
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Yuri Khanon
- Enrolled in St. Petersburg State Conservatory
- Studied in 1988
- Occupations
- animal breedercomposerpianistwriterphilosopher
- Biography
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Yuri Khanon is a pen name of Yuri Feliksovich Soloviev-Savoyarov, a Russian composer. Prior to 1993, he wrote under a pen name Yuri Khanin, but later transformed it into Yuri Khanon, spelling it in a pre-1918 Russian style as ХанонЪ. Khanon was born on June 16, 1965, in Leningrad. In 1988, he became a laureate of the European Film Awards (Felix Award), and in 1989, he won the Nika Award, a Russian cinematographic award. Due to his numerous concerts throughout Russia, as well as to TV and cinema appearances, Khanon reached the peak of his popularity in 1988–1992, but in 1993, decided to stop performing in public.
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Nadezhda Zabela-Vrubel
- Occupations
- opera singer
- Biography
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Nadezhda Ivanovna Zabela-Vrubel was a Russian opera singer. She was the niece of the Russian sculptor Parmen Zabela. Vocally, she is best described as a coloratura soprano, with a particularly high tessitura.
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Gerard Vasilyev
- Enrolled in St. Petersburg State Conservatory
- Studied in 1967
- Occupations
- singeractortheatrical director
- Biography
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Gerard Vyacheslavovich Vasilyev is a Soviet and Russian singer and actor, People's Artist of the RSFSR, President of the Foundation for the Conservation and Development of the operetta genre, president of competition for young artists of operetta OperettaLand.
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Fyodor Stravinsky
- Occupations
- singeractoropera singer
- Biography
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Fyodor Ignatyevich Stravinsky was a Russian bass opera singer and actor. He was the father of Igor Stravinsky and the grandfather of Théodore Strawinsky and Soulima Stravinsky.
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Yevgeny Brusilovsky
- Occupations
- music educatorcomposer
- 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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Joseph Schillinger
- Occupations
- composermusicologistmusic theoristmusic educator
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Joseph Moiseyevich Schillinger was a composer, music theorist, and composition teacher who originated the Schillinger System of Musical Composition. He was born in Kharkov, in the Kharkov Governorate of the Russian Empire (present-day Kharkiv, Ukraine) and died in New York City. He sometimes used the pseudonym "Frank Lynn".
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Emil Młynarski
- Occupations
- composerconductorviolinistmusic educator
- Biography
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Emil Szymon Młynarski was a Polish conductor, violinist, composer, and pedagogue.
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Viktor Kosenko
- Occupations
- composerpianist
- Biography
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Viktor Stepanovych Kosenko was a Ukrainian composer, pianist, and educator. He was regarded by his contemporaries as a master of lyricism.
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Yuri Simonov
- Occupations
- music educatorconductor
- Biography
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Yuri Ivanovich Simonov is a Russian conductor. He studied at the Leningrad Conservatory under Nikolai Rabinovich, and was later an assistant conductor to Yevgeny Mravinsky with the Leningrad Philharmonic Orchestra.
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Olga Borodina
- Occupations
- opera singer
- Biography
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Olga Vladimirovna Borodina is a leading mezzo-soprano, known for her roles in Russian operas at her home company, the Mariinsky Theatre, and for her international performing and recording career in a varied repertoire.
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Vasily Safonov
- Enrolled in St. Petersburg State Conservatory
- Studied in 1878-1880
- Occupations
- conductorpianistpedagoguemusic educatorclassical pianist
- Biography
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Vasily Ilyich Safonov, also known as Wassily Safonoff, was a Russian pianist, teacher, conductor and composer.
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Thomas de Hartmann
- Occupations
- visual artistpianistfilm score composercomposer
- Biography
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Thomas Alexandrovich de Hartmann was a Ukrainian-born composer, pianist and professor of composition.
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Igor Luchenok
- Enrolled in St. Petersburg State Conservatory
- Studied in 1965
- Occupations
- music educatorfilm score composercomposer
- Biography
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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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Leonid Kreutzer
- Occupations
- pianistconductor
- Biography
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Leonid Kreutzer was a Russian-born classical pianist and teacher.
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Irina Bogacheva
- Occupations
- opera singermusic educator
- Biography
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Irina Petrovna Bogacheva was a Russian mezzo-soprano at the Mariinsky Theatre and a professor of voice at the Saint Petersburg Conservatory. Trained in Leningrad and at La Scala in Milan, she performed leading roles of the Russian and Italian repertoire at major international opera houses. Dmitri Shostakovich composed his Six Poems by Marina Tsvetayeva for her.
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Nikolai Tcherepnin
- Occupations
- conductorpianistcomposermusic educatorchoreographer
- Biography
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Nikolai Nikolayevich Tcherepnin or Cherepnin was a Russian composer, pianist, and conductor. He was born in Saint Petersburg and studied under Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov at the Saint Petersburg Conservatory. He conducted for the first Paris season of Sergei Diaghilev's Ballets Russes.
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Samuel Maykapar
- Occupations
- pianistmusic educatorcomposer
- Biography
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Samuel Moiseyevich Maykapar was a Russian romantic composer, pianist, professor of music at the St. Petersburg Conservatory, and author of a number of piano practice pieces.
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Ossip Gabrilowitsch
- Occupations
- pianistconductorcomposer
- Biography
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Ossip Salomonovich Gabrilowitsch was a Russian-American pianist, conductor and composer.
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Daniil Shafran
- Occupations
- music educatorcellistmusician
- Biography
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Daniil Borisovich Shafran was a Soviet Russian cellist.
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Arthur Lourié
- Occupations
- music criticmusicologistcomposer
- Biography
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Arthur-Vincent Lourié, born Naum Izrailevich Luria, later changed his name to Artur Sergeyevich Luriye (Russian: Артур Серге́евич Лурье) (14 May 1892 – 12 October 1966) was a Russian composer, writer, administrator, and musical agent. Lourié played an important role in the earliest stages of the organization of Soviet music after the 1917 Revolution but later went into exile. His music reflects his close connections with contemporary writers and artists, and also his close relationship with Igor Stravinsky.
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Maximilian Steinberg
- Occupations
- conductoruniversity teachercomposermusic educatorchoreographer
- Biography
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Maximilian Osseyevich Steinberg was a Russian composer of classical music.
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Afrasiab Badalbeyli
- Occupations
- librettistmusic criticmusicologistcomposerconductor
- Biography
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Afrasiyab Badal bey oghlu Badalbeyli was a Soviet Azerbaijani composer, with noble Iranian origins (he was the descendant of Bahman Mirza and Abbas Mirza), conductor and music critic, author of the music and libretto of Giz Galasi (The Maiden Tower), the first Azerbaijani ballet and the first ballet in the Middle East.
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Sergei Stadler
- Occupations
- violinistconductor
- Biography
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Sergei Stadler is a Russian violinist and conductor. He is currently Artistic Director and Chief Conductor of the Saint Petersburg Symphony Orchestra.
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Heino Eller
- Occupations
- composerviolinistmusic educatormusic teacher
- Biography
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Heino Eller was an Estonian composer and pedagogue, known as the founder of contemporary Estonian symphonic music.
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Mikhail Gnesin
- Occupations
- music educatorprofessorcomposer
- Biography
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Mikhail Fabianovich Gnessin was a Russian Jewish composer and teacher. Gnessin's works The Maccabeans and The Youth of Abraham earned him the nickname the "Jewish Glinka".
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Gavriil Musicescu
- Enrolled in St. Petersburg State Conservatory
- Studied in 1871-1872
- Occupations
- music educatorconductorcomposer
- Biography
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Gavriil Musicescu was a Romanian composer, conductor and musicologist, father of the pianist and musical pedagogue Florica Musicescu.
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Veronika Dzhioeva
- Occupations
- opera singer
- Biography
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Veronika Dzhioeva is a South Ossetian soprano.
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Nadezhda Rimskaya-Korsakova
- Occupations
- composerpianist
- Biography
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Nadezhda Nikolayevna Rimskaya-Korsakova was a Russian pianist and composer as well as the wife of composer Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov. She was also the mother of Russian musicologist Andrey Rimsky-Korsakov.
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Alexander Knaifel
- Enrolled in St. Petersburg State Conservatory
- Studied in 1963-1967
- Occupations
- composermusician
- Biography
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Alexander Aronovich Knaifel was a Soviet composer from Tashkent, Uzbekistan, known for his operas The Ghost of Canterville and Alice in Wonderland as well as for his music for cinema.
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Gavriil Popov
- Occupations
- classical composer
- Biography
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Gavriil Nikolayevich Popov was a Soviet composer.
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Tõnu Kaljuste
- Occupations
- choir directormusic teacherconductor
- Biography
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Tõnu Kaljuste is an Estonian conductor.
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Yuri Shaporin
- Enrolled in St. Petersburg State Conservatory
- Studied in 1913-1918
- Occupations
- music educatorfilm score composerconductorcomposeruniversity teacher
- Biography
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Yuri Alexandrovich Shaporin, PAU, was a Soviet composer. Two Stalin Prizes first degree (1941, 1946). Stalin Prize second degree (1952).
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Joseph Achron
- Occupations
- music educatorcomposer
- Biography
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Joseph Yulyevich Achron, also seen as Akhron was a Russian composer and violinist, who settled in the United States. His preoccupation with Jewish elements and his desire to develop a "Jewish" harmonic and contrapuntal idiom, underscored and informed much of his work. His friend, the composer Arnold Schoenberg, described Achron in his obituary as "one of the most underrated modern composers".
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Rudolf Tobias
- Occupations
- composerconductormusic educatorchoir director
- Biography
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Rudolf Tobias was the first Estonian professional composer, as well as a professional organist. He studied at the Saint Petersburg Conservatory. His compositions include among others piano works, string quartets and an oratorio, Des Jona Sendung (Jonah's Mission) (1908, revised and premiered 1909, later reconstructed by Vardo Rumessen).
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Miroslav Kultyshev
- Occupations
- pianist
- Biography
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Miroslav Kultyshev is a Russian classical pianist and was awarded second prize at the 2007 International Tchaikovsky Competition (no first prize was awarded).
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Miina Härma
- Occupations
- choir directormusic teacherconductorcomposerorganist
- Biography
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Miina Härma was an Estonian composer, organist, choir director, and music teacher, known for being Estonia's first professional female composer and organist.
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Alfrēds Kalniņš
- Occupations
- music educatorconductorcomposer
- Biography
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Alfrēds Bruno Jānis Kalniņš was a Latvian composer, organist, pedagogue, music critic and conductor; the founder of national Latvian opera. Kalniņš is primarily remembered for his national opera Baņuta (1920).
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Semyon Chernetsky
- Occupations
- music educatorconductorcomposermajor generalmusicologist
- Biography
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Semyon Aleksandrovich Chernetsky was a Soviet military composer and conductor. He is credited as the founder of modern Russian military bands. He served as the Senior Director of the Central Military Band of the People's Commissariat of National Defense of the USSR from 1924 to 1950.
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Yakiv Stepovy
- Enrolled in St. Petersburg State Conservatory
- Studied in 1902-1909
- Occupations
- music directormusic criticpedagoguecomposermusic educator
- Biography
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Yakiv Stepanovych Stepovy was a Ukrainian composer, music teacher, and music critic.
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Anna Yesipova
- Occupations
- pianistmusic educatoruniversity teacher
- Biography
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Anna Yesipova was a Russian pianist.
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Meliton Balanchivadze
- Enrolled in St. Petersburg State Conservatory
- Studied in 1889-1895
- Occupations
- singercomposeropera singer
- Biography
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Meliton Balanchivadze was a Georgian opera singer, composer and a member of Georgia's cultural scene, both under the Russian Empire and during the country's independence. Two of his sons, George and Andria, had illustrious careers, the former as a pioneering choreographer in the United States, and the latter as Soviet Georgia's leading classical composer.
