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  • Родился 10 октября 1965 года в Москве. В 1988 году закончил Московскую консерваторию по классу фортепиано, учился у профессора Татьяны Николаевой. В 1986 году получил специальный приз на Международном конкурсе Чайковского. В 1990 году выпустил на фирме «Мелодия» дебютный диск — «Двадцать взглядов на Младенца-Иисуса» Мессиана. В конце 1980-х годов основал фестиваль «Альтернатива», был художественным директором фестиваля с 1989 по 1996 год. Концертные выступления прекратил в 1997 г...
  • Фрида Бауэр (1919 - 2016) — российская пианистка-аккомпаниатор, любимая ученица знаменитого педагога К. Н. Игумнова. Она прожила долгую и счастливую творческую жизнь - выступала вместе с такими выдающимися российскими виолончелистами, как Мстислав Растропович и Даниил Шафран и многие годы была партнёром великого скрипача Давида Ойстраха. Их дуэт долгие годы признавался лучшим скрипичным ансамблем в мире.
  •      Ludwig van Beethoven (baptised 17 December 1770 – 26 March 1827) was a German composer and pianist. A crucial figure in the transition between the Classical and Romantic eras in Western art music, he remains one of the most famous and influential of all composers. His best-known compositions include 9 symphonies, 5 concertos for piano, 1 violin concerto, 32 piano sonatas, and 16 string quartets. He also composed other chamber music, choral works (including the celebrated Missa solemnis), an...
  • Kola Beldy (Russian: Кола́ Бельды́) (2 May 1929 – 21 December 1993) was a Soviet pop singer of Nanai ethnicity. In 1986 he was awarded the title of Meritorious Artist of the RSFSR. He had a number of Soviet-era hits, most famously "Увезу тебя я в тундру" (I will take you to the tundra). He was signed to Melodiya Moscow, in 1973 winning them Award no. 2 at the Sopot International Song Festival. According to musicologist and rock critic Artemy Troitsky he "scored with some tundra-orientated meg...
  •      Vincenzo Salvatore Carmelo Francesco Bellini ( 3 November 1801 – 23 September 1835) was an Italian opera composer, who was known for his long-flowing melodic lines for which he was named "the Swan of Catania". Many years later, in 1898, Giuseppe Verdi "praised the broad curves of Bellini's melody: 'there are extremely long melodies as no-one else had ever made before' " A very large amount of what is known about Bellini's life and his activities comes from surviving le...
  •      Boris Nikolaevich Bugaev (Russian: Бори́с Никола́евич Буга́ев; better known by the pen name Andrei Bely (Russian: Андре́й Бе́лый; 26 October [O.S. 14 October] 1880 – 8 January 1934), was a Russian novelist, poet, theorist, and literary critic. His novel Petersburg was regarded by Vladimir Nabokov as one of the four greatest novels of the 20th century.
  • Boris Vadimovich Berezovsky (Russian: Бори́с Вади́мович Березо́вский) is a Russian pianist. Berezovsky studied at the Moscow Conservatory with Eliso Virsaladze and privately with Alexander Satz. Following his London début at the Wigmore Hall in 1988, The Times described him as "an artist of exceptional promise, a player of dazzling virtuosity and formidable power."  In May 2005 he had his first solo recital in Théâtre des Champs-Élysées in Paris and played in the same venue in Jan...
  • А́льбан Берг (нем. Alban Berg, 9 февраля 1885, Вена — 24 декабря 1935, там же) — австрийский композитор и музыкальный критик. Видный представитель музыкального экспрессионизма и Нововенской композиторской школы.
  • Berlin Philharmonic (Berliner Philharmoniker) is the largest symphony orchestra in Germany, based in Berlin. It was founded in 1882 by a group of 54 musicians from Benjamin Bilse's orchestra who refused to go on a traditional summer tour to Warsaw in a 4th class railway carriage. Initially the orchestra performed under the name Frühere Bilsesche Kapelle (former Bilsese Orchestra), then it was called Kapelle von Brenner (after the name of the first leader), the present name has been use...
  • Ludmila Berlinskaya is the daughter of a lawyer mother and musician father: cellist Valentin Berlinsky, founder of the Borodin Quartet. Her childhood was spent in the presence of the many artists and figures in the Russian intelligentsia who surrounded her parents such as composers Mieczysław Weinberg, Dmitri Shostakovitch, Alfred Schnittke, Sofia Gubaidulina; musicians Mstislav Rostropovitch, David Oistrakh, Daniil Shafran, Yakov Zak, Alexander Goldenweiser, Yakov Flier; condu...
  • Louis-Hector Berlioz (11 December 1803 – 8 March 1869) was a French Romantic composer. His output includes orchestral works such as the Symphonie fantastique and Harold in Italy, choral pieces including the Requiem and L'Enfance du Christ, his three operas Benvenuto Cellini, Les Troyens and Béatrice et Bénédict, and works of hybrid genres such as the "dramatic symphony" Roméo et Juliette and the "dramatic legend" La Damnation de Faust. The elder son of a provincial doctor, Berlioz was...
  • Lazar Naumovich Berman (Russian: Ла́зарь Нау́мович Бе́рман, Lazarʹ Naumovič Berman; February 26, 1930 – February 6, 2005) 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".
  • Mark Naumovich Bernes (Russian: Ма́рк Нау́мович Берне́с) (October 8 [O.S. September 25] 1911, Nezhin, Chernigov Governorate, Russian Empire – August 16, 1969, Moscow, Soviet Union) was a Soviet actor and singer of Jewish ancestry (his father's last name was Neumann), who performed some of the most poignant songs to come out of World War II, including Dark Night (Russian: Тёмная ночь, Tyomnaya noch; 1943) and Cranes (Russian: Журавли, Zhuravli; 1969). His voice had some similarities to Bing Cr...
  • Louis (Louis, Hebrew name Aryeh-Leib) Bernstein was born on 25 August 1918 in Lawrence, Massachusetts, to a Jewish family who came from Rivne (Ukraine): mother Jenny (née Reznik), father Samuel Joseph Bernstein, a wholesale hairdresser (according to some sources, owned a bookstore). His grandmother insisted that the child be named Louis, but his parents always called him Leonard. He officially changed his name to Leonard at the age of fifteen, shortly after his grandmother died. To his friend...
  • Georges Bizet (UK: /ˈbiːzeɪ/ BEE-zay, US: /biːˈzeɪ/ bee-ZAY, French: [ʒɔʁʒ bizɛ]; 25 October 1838 – 3 June 1875), registered at birth as Alexandre César Léopold Bizet, was a French composer of the Romantic era. Best known for his operas in a career cut short by his early death, Bizet achieved few successes before his final work, Carmen, which has become one of the most popular and frequently performed works in the entire opera repertoire. During a brilliant student career at the Conse...
  • Matvei Isaakovich Blanter (Russian: Матве́й Исаа́кович Бла́нтер) (10 February [O.S. 28 January] 1903 – 27 September 1990) was a Soviet Jewish composer, and one of the most prominent composers of popular songs and film music in the Soviet Union. Among many other works, he wrote the famous "Katyusha" (1938), performed to this day internationally. He was active as a composer until 1975, producing more than two thousand songs.
  •      Alexander Alexandrovich Blok (Russian: Алекса́ндр Алекса́ндрович Бло́к; 28 November [O.S. 16 November] 1880 – 7 August 1921) was a Russian lyrical poet.
  • Nikita Vladimirovich Bogoslovsky (Russian: Никита Владимирович Богословский; May 22, 1913 in Saint-Petersburg, Russian Empire – April 4, 2004 in Moscow, Russia) was a Soviet Russian composer, author of more than 200 songs, 8 symphonies (1940–1991), 17 operettas and musical comedies, 58 soundtracks, and 52 scores for theater productions. Bogoslovsky is best known for two Mark Bernes's trademark songs from the Great Patriotic War film Two Fighters (Dva boitsa, 1943), "Tyomnaya noch" (Da...
  • Ростисла́в Григо́рьевич Бо́йко (1 августа 1931— 18 ноября 2002 ) — советский и российский композитор. Заслуженный деятель искусств РСФСР (1977). Член КПСС с 1960 года. Главное внимание Р. Бойко уделял вокальной и хоровой музыке, что напрямую связано с его образованием. Он − воспитанник Детской хоровой школы при Ленинградской капелле и выпускник Московского хорового училища имени Свешникова, а в консерватории его педагогом был выдающийся композитор А. И. Хачатурян, немало способс...
  •      Arrigo Boito (Italian: [arˈriɡo ˈbɔito]; 24 February 1842 – 10 June 1918) (whose original name was Enrico Giuseppe Giovanni Boito and who wrote essays under the anagrammatic pseudonym of Tobia Gorrio), was an Italian poet, journalist, novelist, librettist and composer, best known today for his libretti, especially those for Giuseppe Verdi's operas Otello and Falstaff, and his own opera Mefistofele. Along with Emilio Praga, he is regarded as one of the prominent representatives of the Scapig...
  • 12 August 1969, Volgograd Pianist, trio leader. Since the second half of the 80s he has been a leading jazz musician in Kazan. In 1993 graduated from the Kazan Conservatoire in piano, debuted as a jazz pianist with a solo programme at the Kazan festival "Jazz Crossroads". He considers Keith Jarrett, Chick Corea, Thelonious Monk and Michel Petrucciani to be his idols. In 1988-93 he was a member of the most famous ensemble of the city - the Kazan Quartet (Mikhail Savin - saxophones,...
  • Alexander Porfiryevich Borodin (Russian: Александр Порфирьевич Бородин, IPA: [ɐlʲɪkˈsandr pɐrˈfʲi rʲjɪvʲɪtɕ bərɐˈdʲin] (12 November 1833 – 27 February 1887) was a Russian chemist and Romantic musical composer of Georgian ancestry. He was one of the prominent 19th-century composers known as "The Mighty Handful", a group dedicated to producing a uniquely Russian kind of classical music, rather than imitating earlier Western European models. Borodin is known best for his symphonies, his two ...
  • Dmitry Stepanovich Bortniansky (Russian: Дмитрий Степанович Бортнянский, Ukrainian: Дмитро Степанович Бортнянський; alternative transcriptions of names are Dmitri Bortnianskii, and Bortnyansky; 28 October 1751, Glukhov –10 October [O.S. 28 September] 1825, St. Petersburg) was a Russian and Ukrainian composer, harpsichordist and conductor, who served at the court of Catherine the Great. Bortniansky was critical to the musical history of both Ukraine and Russia, with both nations claiming h...
  • Mikhail Sergeyevich Boyarsky (Russian: Михаи́л Серге́евич Боя́рский; born 26 December 1949 in Leningrad) is a Soviet and Russian actor and singer. He is best known for playing swashbucklers in historical adventure films; the role of d'Artagnan in the 1978 Soviet adaptation of Alexander Dumas' Three Musketeers elevated Boyarsky to the nationwide fame.
  • Nani Bregvadze (Ge. ნანი ბრეგვაძე, Rus. Нани Брегвадзе; born 21 July 1936, in Tbilisi) is a Georgian and Soviet singer, pianist, music pedagogue, people's artist of the USSR (1983). She was born, raised and started her career in Soviet Georgia in the USSR, then gained USSR-wide popularity during 1957 6th World Festival of Youth and Students. Bregvadze has performed with Georgian music group VIA Orera and as a solo artist.
  • Edward Benjamin Britten, Baron Britten OM CH (22 November 1913 – 4 December 1976) was an English composer, conductor, and pianist. He was a central figure of 20th-century British classical music, with a range of works including opera, other vocal music, orchestral and chamber pieces. His best-known works include the opera Peter Grimes (1945), the War Requiem (1962) and the orchestral showpiece The Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra (1945). Born in Lowestoft, Suffolk, the son of a d...
  • Anton Bruckner (4 September 1824, Ansfelden, Upper Austria - 11 October 1896, Vienna) was an Austrian composer, organist and music teacher, known primarily for his symphonies, masses and motets. His symphonies are often considered symbolic of the final phase of Austro-German Romanticism because of their rich harmonic language, complex polyphony, and considerable duration. Bruckner was born in the village of Ansfelden near Linz. His grandfather took a teaching position in 1776, a pos...
  •      Valery Yakovlevich Bryusov (Russian: Вале́рий Я́ковлевич Брю́сов; 13 December [O.S. 1 December] 1873 – 9 October 1924) was a Russian poet, prose writer, dramatist, translator, critic and historian. He was one of the principal members of the Russian Symbolist movement.
  • Polad Bülbüloğlu (Azerbaijani: Polad Murtuza oğlu Məmmədov; born February 4, 1945) is a Soviet and Azerbaijani singer, actor, politician, and diplomat. Bülbüloğlu became famous in the Soviet Union with composing jazz-influenced pop songs which has heavy Azeri folk feelings in Russian and Azerbaijani languages. He also sang his own songs. Three of his songs became Songs of the Year and he received numerous prestigious awards in the Soviet Union. Bülbüloğlu is a lyrical tenor. In the la...
  • Юрий Маркович Буцко́ (28 мая 1938, Лубны, Полтавская область, Украинская ССР, СССР — 25 апреля 2015, Москва, Россия) — советский и российский композитор.
  • Anna Vladimirovna Buturlina (Russian: Анна Владимировна Бутурлина, born 31 May 1977) is a Russian jazz singer and musical actress.
  • Александр Бузлов (1983–2020) — один из самых ярких и талантливых российских музыкантов молодого поколения. По мнению New York Times, он «является виолончелистом истинно русской традиции, обладающим великим даром заставлять инструмент петь, завораживая публику своим звуком». Родился в Москве в 1983 году. В 2006 году окончил Московскую консерваторию (класс профессора Н. Г. Гутман). Свой первый Гран-при — «Моцарт 96» —...
  •      Salvadore Cammarano (also Salvatore) (born Naples, 19 March 1801 - died Naples 17 July 1852) was a prolific Italian librettist and playwright perhaps best known for writing the text of Lucia di Lammermoor (1835) for Gaetano Donizetti. For Donizetti he also contributed the libretti for L'assedio di Calais (1836), Belisario (1836), Pia de' Tolomei (1837), Roberto Devereux (1837), Maria de Rudenz (1838), Poliuto (1838), and Maria di Rohan (1843), while for Giuseppe Persiani he was the author...
  • Важа Николаевич Чачава (груз. ვაჟა ნიკოლოზის ძე ჩაჩავა; 20 апреля 1933 — 6 октября 2011) — грузинский и российский пианист и музыкальный педагог, концертмейстер. Народный артист Грузинской ССР (1989), Заслуженный деятель искусств Российской Федерации (2006).
  • Feodor Ivanovich Chaliapin (Russian: Фёдор Ива́нович Шаля́пин, tr. Fyodor Ivanovich Shalyapin, IPA: [ˈfʲɵdər ɪˈvanəvʲɪtɕ ʂɐˈlʲapʲɪn]; February 13 [O.S. February 1] 1873 – April 12, 1938) was a Russian opera singer. Possessing a deep and expressive bass voice, he enjoyed an important international career at major opera houses and is often credited with establishing the tradition of naturalistic acting in his chosen art form. During the first phase of his career, Chaliapin endured direct...
  • The Moscow State Academic Chamber Choir was founded in 1972 by conductor Professor Vladimir Minin. The choir has performed concerts in Russia and abroad. Soloists Irina Arkhipova, Elena Obraztsova, Maria Gulegina, Zurab Sotkilava, Evgeny Nesterenko, Alexander Vedernikov, Paata Burchuladze and others performed with the choir. During the years of Soviet power the choir revived spiritual works by Russian composers - S. Rachmaninov, P. Tchaikovsky, S. Taneyev, P. Chesnokov, A. Grechan...
  • Amédée-Ernest Chausson (French: [ʃosɔ̃]; 20 January 1855 – 10 June 1899) was a French Romantic composer who died just as his career was beginning to flourish.
  • Anton Pavlovich Chekhov (Russian doref. Anton Pavlovich Chekhov; January 17 (29), 1860, Taganrog, Ekaterinoslav Province (now Rostov Oblast), Russian Empire - July 2 (15), 1904, Badenweiler, German Empire) was a Russian writer, novelist, playwright, publicist, physician, public figure in the field of charity. A classic of world literature. Honorary Academician of the Imperial Academy of Sciences in the category of fine literature (1900-1902). One of the most famous playwrights in the world. Hi...
  • Frédéric François Chopin (22 February or 1 March 1810 – 17 October 1849), born Fryderyk Franciszek Chopin, was a Polish composer and virtuoso pianist of the Romantic era, who wrote primarily for the solo piano. He gained and has maintained renown worldwide as one of the leading musicians of his era, whose "poetic genius was based on a professional technique that was without equal in his generation." Chopin was born in what was then the Duchy of Warsaw, and grew up in Warsaw, which after 1815 bec...
  •      Christian Fürchtegott Gellert (4 July 1715 – 13 December 1769) was a German poet, one of the forerunners of the golden age of German literature that was ushered in by Lessing.
  • Ирина Владимировна Чуковская (в девичестве Петрова) — российская пианистка, педагог. Солистка Московской филармонии. Преподаватель Московской государственной консерватории (1999—2005). С 2000 года преподаёт в Российской академии музыки имени Гнесиных, с 2006 — доцент, с 2013 года работает в должности профессора. В 2017 году присвоено звание профессора.
  • Harvey Lavan "Van" Cliburn Jr. (/ˈklaɪbɜːrn/; July 12, 1934 – February 27, 2013) was an American pianist who, at the age of 23, achieved worldwide recognition when he won the inaugural International Tchaikovsky Competition in Moscow in 1958 (during the Cold War). Cliburn's mother, a piano teacher and an accomplished pianist in her own right, discovered him playing at age three, mimicking one of her students and arranged for him to start taking lessons. Cliburn developed a rich, round tone...
  • Alexander Sergeyevich Dargomyzhsky (Russian: Александр Сергеевич Даргомыжский) (14 February [O.S. 2 February] 1813 – 17 January [O.S. 5 January] 1869) was a 19th-century Russian composer. He bridged the gap in Russian opera composition between Mikhail Glinka and the later generation of The Five and Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky. Dargomyzhsky was born in Troitsko village, Belyovsky District, Tula Governorate, and educated in Saint Petersburg. He was already known as a talented musical amate...
  • Bella Mikhaylovna Davidovich (Бэлла Миха́йловна Давидо́вич; born July 16, 1928) is a Soviet-born American pianist.  Davidovich was born in Baku, Azerbaijan SSR, into a family of musicians and began studying piano when she was six. Three years later, she was the soloist for a performance of Beethoven's Piano Concerto No. 1. In 1939, she moved to Moscow to continue her musical education. At the age of 18 she entered the Moscow Conservatory where she studied with Konstantin Igumnov and Y...
  • (Achille) Claude Debussy (French: [aʃil klod dəbysi]; 22 August 1862 – 25 March 1918) was a French composer. He is sometimes seen as the first Impressionist composer, although he vigorously rejected the term. He was among the most influential composers of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Born to a family of modest means and little cultural involvement, Debussy showed enough musical talent to be admitted at the age of ten to France's leading music college, the Conservatoire de P...
  • Edison Vasilievich Denisov (Russian: Эдисо́н Васи́льевич Дени́сов, 6 April 1929 – 24 November 1996) was a Russian composer in the so-called "Underground", "alternative" or "nonconformist" division of Soviet music.
  • Leonid Petrovich Derbenyov (Russian: Леони́д Петро́вич Дербенёв, IPA: [lʲɪɐˈnʲit pʲɪˈtrovʲɪtɕ dʲɪrbʲɪˈnʲɵf]; April 12, 1931 – June 22, 1995) was a Russian poet and lyricist widely regarded as one of the stalwarts of the 20th century Soviet and Russian pop music.
  • Artyom Dervoed (Russian: Артём Дервоед), (October 25, 1981, Rostov-on-Don, USSR) is a classical guitarist from Russia.
  • Leonid Arkadievich Desyatnikov (Russian: Леони́д Арка́дьевич Деся́тников, born: 16 October 1955, Kharkiv, Ukrainian SSR) is a Russian composer who first made a reputation with a number of film scores, then achieving greater fame when his controversial opera The Children of Rosenthal was premiered at the Bolshoi Theatre in Moscow.
  • The Divertissement Chamber Orchestra was founded in 1992 thanks to the enthusiasm of Professor Elena Komarova of the St Petersburg Conservatoire and several of her students. The unity of the musicians' school and fidelity to St Petersburg chamber traditions allowed the orchestra to make an immediate name for itself, first in its native city and later beyond its borders. Since 1998 the orchestra has been led by Ilya Ioff. The ensemble's almost quartet-like flexibility and ensemble mobili...
  • Георгий Петрович Дмитриев (29 октября 1942, Краснодар, РСФСР, СССР — 15 июля 2016, Москва, Российская Федерация) — советский и российский композитор, лауреат международных композиторских конкурсов в Будапеште (1988) и Тренто (1991), Золотой пушкинской медали (2000), Премии правительства Москвы (2001).Заслуженный деятель искусств России (2003).
  • Пётр Георгиевич Дмитриев (род. 1974) — российский пианист, музыкальный деятель. Заслуженный артист России (2006).
  • Aleksandr Sergeyevich Dmitriyev (Russian: Алекса́ндр Серге́евич Дми́триев; born in Leningrad on 19 January 1935), PAU, is a Russian conductor of orchestral and choral music and opera. He has been director of the Symphony Orchestra of the Karel Autonomous Republic, and Principal Conductor of the Maly Academic Opera House in Leningrad. Since 1977 he has been Chief Conductor and Artistic director of the Academic Symphony Orchestra of the St. Petersburg Philharmonia. He has toured many countries ...
  • Nikolai Nikolaevich Dobronravov (Russian: Николай Николаевич Добронравов; born 22 November 1928 in Leningrad) is a Soviet/Russian poet and lyricist. He collaborates with his wife Aleksandra Pakhmutova.
  • Vyacheslav Grigoryevich Dobrynin (Russian: Вячесла́в Григо́рьевич Добры́нин, born Antonov/Анто́нов on January 25, 1946, Ryazanskaya oblast, Russia) is a popular Russian composer and singer also known as Doctor Shlyager. He was awarded the People's Artist of Russia in 1996.' Dobrynin was born in 1946 to an Armenian father and a Russian mother. He never bore his father's surname of Petrosian – his father left the family before he was born and he used his mother's surname Antonov througho...
  • Yevgeniy Aronovich Dolmatovsky (Russian: Евге́ний Аро́нович Долмато́вский, May 5, 1915 – September 10, 1994) was a Soviet poet and a Russian popular song lyricist. He was born and died in Moscow.
  •      Domenico Gaetano Maria Donizetti (29 November 1797 – 8 April 1848) was an Italian composer from Bergamo in Lombardy. Along with Gioachino Rossini and Vincenzo Bellini, Donizetti was a leading composer of the bel canto opera style during the first fifty years of the Nineteenth Century. Although Donizetti did not come from a musical background, at an early age he was taken under the wing of composer Simon Mayr who had enrolled him by means of a full scholarship in a school which he had set ...
  • Sergei Leonidovich Doreński (3 December 1931, Moscow - 26 February 2020, Moscow) was a Soviet and Russian pianist and music teacher. People's Artist of the RSFSR (1988). Professor at the Tchaikovsky Moscow State Conservatoire. In 1940-1950 he studied at the Central Music School with G. R. Ginzburg, in 1955 graduated with honours from his class at the Tchaikovsky Moscow State Conservatoire, and in 1957 completed postgraduate studies at the Conservatoire. Winner of the Fifth World Festiva...
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