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Felice Romani

Felice Romani (January 31, 1788 – January 28, 1865) was an Italian poet and scholar of literature and mythology who wrote many librettos for the opera composers Donizetti and Bellini. Romani was considered the finest Italian librettist between Metastasio and Boito.

Gioachino Rossini

Gioachino Antonio Rossini (29 February 1792 – 13 November 1868) was an Italian composer who wrote 39 operas as well as sacred music, chamber music, songs, and some instrumental and piano pieces. His best-known operas include the Italian comedies Il barbiere di Siviglia (The Barber of Seville) and La Cenerentola, and the French-language epics Moïse et Pharaon and Guillaume Tell. A tendency for inspired, song-like melodies is evident throughout his scores, which led to the nickname "Th...

Mstislav Rostropovich

Mstislav Leopoldovich "Slava" Rostropovich (Russian: Мстисла́в Леопо́льдович Ростропо́вич, romanized: Mstislav Leopol'dovič Rostropovič, pronounced [rəstrɐˈpovʲɪtɕ]; 27 March 1927 – 27 April 2007) was a Soviet and Russian cellist and conductor. He is considered to be one of the greatest cellists 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 b...

Anton Rubinstein

Anton Grigoryevich Rubinstein (Russian: Антон Григорьевич Рубинштейн, tr. Anton Grigor'evič Rubinštejn; 28 November [O.S. 16 November] 1829 – November 20 [O.S. November 8] 1894) was a Russian pianist, composer and conductor who became a pivotal figure in Russian culture when he founded the Saint Petersburg Conservatory. He was the elder brother of Nikolai Rubinstein who founded the Moscow Conservatory. As a pianist, Rubinstein ranks among the great 19th-century keyboard virtuosos. He ...

Alexander Rudin

Alexander Israilevich Rudin (born 1960) is a Russian classical cellist and conductor.

Klara Rumyanova

Klara Mikhailovna Rumyanova (Russian: Кла́ра Миха́йловна Румя́нова; 8 December 1929, Leningrad – 18 September 2004, Moscow) was a Soviet and Russian actress and singer. She was active from 1951 to 1999. Her childlike and endearing voice was easily recognized by generations of Soviet people from their early childhood, because she voiced numerous Russian animated films and sang countless children's songs. After the dissolution of the Soviet Union her songs have been heard even more, be...

Lidia Ruslanova

Lidia Andreyevna Ruslanova (sometimes spelt Lidiya or Lydia, Russian: Лидия Андреевна Русланова; 27 October 1900 in Saratov Governorate – 21 September 1973 in Moscow) was a performer of Russian folk songs.

Alexey Rybnikov

Alexey Lvovich Rybnikov (Russian: Алексе́й Льво́вич Ры́бников; born July 17, 1945) is a modern Russian composer. He is the author of music for Soviet and Russian musicals (rock-operas) Star and Death of Joaquin Murrieta (Звезда и смерть Хоакина Мурьеты, 1976) and Juno and Avos (Юнона и Авось, 1981, shown more than 700 times), for numerous plays and operas, for more than 80 Russian movies. More than 10 million discs with his music have been sold to 1989.

Salvadore Cammarano

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...

Samuil Samosud

Samuil Abramovich Samosud (Russian: Самуи́л Абра́мович Самосу́д) (Tbilisi, Georgia, 14 May [O.S. 2 May] 1884 — Moscow, 6 November 1964), PAU, was a Soviet and Russian conductor. He started his musical career on the cello, before conducting in the Mariinsky Theater, Petrograd in 1917. From 1918 to 1936 he conducted at the Maly Operny, Leningrad. In 1936 he became musical director at the Bolshoi Theater, Moscow. He founded what became the Moscow Philharmonic Orchestra in 1951. He premie...

Yury Saulsky

Yury Sergeevitch Saulsky (Russian: Юрий Серге́евич Саульский) was a Soviet and Russian composer, author. His works as a film composer include the score for A Glass of Water.

Valery Sautkin

Вале́рий Вениами́нович Са́уткин (20 сентября 1943, Ярославль, СССР) — известный советский и российский поэт-песенник.

Evgeny Svetlanov

Евге́ний Фёдорович Светла́нов (6 сентября 1928, Москва, РСФСР, СССР — 3 мая 2002, там же) — советский и российский дирижёр, композитор, пианист, публицист. Народный артист СССР (1968). Герой Социалистического Труда (1986). Лауреат Ленинской премии (1972), Государственной премии СССР (1983), Государственной премии РСФСР имени М. И. Глинки (1975) и Премии Президента Российской Федерации (19...

Alexander Sveshnikov

Алекса́ндр Васи́льевич Све́шников (1890—1980) — советский российский хоровой дирижёр, хормейстер, педагог, общественный деятель. Народный артист СССР (1956). Герой Социалистического Труда (1970). Лауреат Сталинской премии второй степени (1946).

Georgy Sviridov

Georgy Vasilyevich Sviridov (Russian: Гео́ргий Васи́льевич Свири́дов; his patronymic is also transliterated Vasil'yevich, Vasilievich, and Vasil'evich) (16 December 1915 – 6 January 1998) was a Russian neoromantic composer, active in the Soviet era. 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. Sviridov employed, in his choral music es...

Igor Severyanin

Igor Severyanin (Russian: И́горь Северя́нин, pen name, real name Igor Vasilyevich Lotaryov (И́горь Васи́льевич Лотарёв) (May 16, 1887, Petersburg – December 20, 1941, Tallinn) was a Russian poet who presided over the circle of the so-called Ego-Futurists. Igor was born in St. Petersburg in the family of an army engineer. Through his mother, he was remotely related to Nikolai Karamzin and Afanasy Fet. In 1904 he left for Manchuria with his father but later returned to St.Pete...

Vladimir Selivohin

Vladimir Selivoknin (23.04.1946 - 08.02.2015) Among the outstanding contemporary pianists - Honored artist of Russia, Professor Vladimir Selivokhin is the largest representative of the Russian Romantic Piano School. His work is a continuation of the best traditions of Russian pianism and, at the same time, the discovery of his direction in art, is a unique phenomenon in the world of music. A brilliant victory at the International Competition Feruccio Busoni in 1...

Camille Saint-Saëns

Charles-Camille Saint-Saëns (French: [ʃaʁl kamij sɛ̃ sɑ̃(s)]; 9 October 1835 – 16 December 1921) was a French composer, organist, conductor and pianist of the Romantic era. His best-known works include Introduction and Rondo Capriccioso (1863), the Second Piano Concerto (1868), the First Cello Concerto (1872), Danse macabre (1874), the opera Samson and Delilah (1877), the Third Violin Concerto (1880), the Third ("Organ") Symphony (1886) and The Carnival of the Animals (1886). Saint-Sa...

Jean Sibelius

Jean Sibelius (/sɪˈbeɪliəs/; Swedish pronunciation), born Johan Julius Christian Sibelius (8 December 1865 – 20 September 1957), was a Finnish composer and violinist of the late Romantic and early-modern periods. He is widely recognized as his country's greatest composer and, through his music, is often credited with having helped Finland to develop a national identity during its struggle for independence from Russia. The core of his oeuvre is his set of seven symphonies, which, like ...

Yuri Silantyev

Ю́рий Васи́льевич Сила́нтьев (10 апреля 1919, с. Промзино Симбирской губернии — 8 февраля 1983, Москва) ― советский дирижёр, скрипач, композитор. Народный артист СССР (1975).

Yuri Simonov

Yuri Ivanovich Simonov (Russian: Ю́рий Ива́нович Си́монов; born 4 March 1941 in Saratov, Soviet Union) 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. Simonov first conducted at the Bolshoi Theatre in 1969, and was named chief conductor of the company in February 1970, the youngest chief conductor in the company's history at that time. He held...

Синяя птица

Sinyaya Ptitsa (Russian: Синяя птица, The Blue Bird) was a Soviet music group, vocal and instrumental ensemble, which existed from 1972 to 1991. Later, several Russian musical groups created by former members of the original band took the name Sinyaya Ptitsa.

Dmitry Sitkovetsky

Dmitry Yulianovich Sitkovetsky (Russian: Дмитрий Юлианович Ситковецкий; born September 27, 1954) is a Soviet-Russian born classical violinist, conductor and arranger, notably of the orchestral version of J S Bach's Goldberg Variations

Julian Sitkovetsky

Julian (Yulian) Grigoryevich Sitkovetsky (7 November 1925 – 23 February 1958) was a Soviet violinist.

Domenico Scarlatti

Giuseppe Domenico Scarlatti (Naples, 26 October 1685 – Madrid, 23 July 1757) was an Italian composer. He is classified primarily as a Baroque composer chronologically, although his music was influential in the development of the Classical style and he was one of the few Baroque composers to transition into the classical period. Like his renowned father Alessandro Scarlatti, he composed in a variety of musical forms, although today he is known mainly for his 555 keyboard sonatas. He spent much...

Alexander Scriabin

Aleksandr Scriabin, in full Aleksandr Nikolayevich Scriabin, Scriabin also spelled Skriabin, or Skryabin, (born Dec. 25, 1871 [Jan. 6, 1872, New Style], Moscow, Russia—died April 14 [April 27], 1915, Moscow), Russian composer of piano and orchestral music noted for its unusual harmonies through which the composer sought to explore musical symbolism. Scriabin was trained as a soldier at the Moscow Cadet School from 1882 to 1889 but studied music at the same time and took piano lessons...

Alexander Sladkovsky

The National artist of the Russian Federation, he graduated from the Moscow and Saint Petersburg Conservatory. The laureate of the III International competition of conductors named after S. S. Prokofiev. He made his conducting debut at the State Opera and Ballet Theatre of Saint Petersburg Conservatory with the W. A. Mozart's opera "Cosi fan tutte". In 2001, Alexander Sladkovsky conducted a concert at the Hermitage Theatre in honor of Her Royal Majesty Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands. He was ch...

Pavel Slobodkin

Павел Яковлевич Слободкин (9 мая 1945, Москва, СССР — 8 августа 2017, Москва, Россия) — советский и российский композитор, музыкальный продюсер, режиссёр и педагог. Основатель и бессменный руководитель вокально-инструментального ансамбля «Весёлые ребята» с 1966 до самой смерти в 2017 году. Народный артист Российской Федерации (1993)

Innokenty Smoktunovsky

Innokenty Mikhaylovich Smoktunovsky (Russian: Иннокентий Михайлович Смоктуновский; born Smoktunovich, 28 March 1925 – 3 August 1994) was a Soviet actor acclaimed as the "king of Soviet actors". He was named a People's Artist of the USSR in 1974 and the Hero of Socialist Labour in 1990.

Arsen Soghomonyan

Arsen Soghomonyan is a soloist with the Stanislavsky and Nemirovich-Danchenko Music Theatre. He was born in 1983 and studied at the Barkhudaryan Music School in Yerevan (under L. Ter-Oganesyan). He then enrolled at the Yerevan Komitas State Conservatory under professor Rafael Akopyants. By his third year in the conservatory he was already performing as a soloist for the Spendiarov Armenian State Theatre of Opera and Ballet. He performed the roles of Giorgio Germont (in Verdi's La traviata...

Grigory Sokolov

Grigory Lipmanovich Sokolov (Russian: Григо́рий Ли́пманович Соколо́в) born April 18, 1950, is a Russian concert pianist. He is among the most esteemed of living pianists, spanning composers from the Baroque period such as Bach, Couperin or Rameau up to Schoenberg and Arapov. He regularly tours Europe (excluding the UK), and resides in Italy.

Moscow Radio Simphony Orchestra (Soloists Ensemble)

Vladimir Sollogub

Count Vladimir Alexandrovich Sollogub (Russian: Влади́мир Алекса́ндрович Соллогу́б; German: Woldemar Graf Sollogub (Sollohub); August 20, 1813, St. Petersburg – June 17 (o.s. June 5), 1882, Bad Homburg) was a minor Russian writer, author of novelettes, essays, plays, and memoirs. His paternal grandfather was a Polish aristocrat, and he grew up in the midst of St. Petersburg high society. He graduated from the University of Dorpat in 1834 and was attached to the Ministry of Internal Affair...

Vasily Solovyov-Sedoi

Vasily Pavlovich Solovyov-Sedoi (Василий Павлович Соловьёв-Седой; 25 April [O.S. 12 April] 1907a – 2 December 1979) was a Soviet and Russian classical composer and songwriter who was born and died in Leningrad. Solovyov-Sedoi composed, among others, the music for the songs Solov'i and Moscow Nights (Russian: Подмосковные вечера; transliterated as "Podmoskovnye Vechera"). He also wrote music for numerous films. Originally named Solovyov, when he entered the Russian "Composer's Union" h...

Fyodor Sologub

Fyodor Sologub (Russian: Фёдор Сологу́б, born Fyodor Kuzmich Teternikov, Russian: Фёдор Кузьми́ч Тете́рников; March 1 [O.S. February 17] 1863 – December 5, 1927) was a Russian Symbolist poet, novelist, playwright and essayist. He was the first writer to introduce the morbid, pessimistic elements characteristic of European fin de siècle literature and philosophy into Russian prose.

Vladimir Sorokin

Влади́мир Гео́ргиевич Соро́кин (род. 7 августа 1955, п. Быково, Московская область) — русский писатель, сценарист и драматург, художник. Один из наиболее ярких представителей концептуализма и соц-арта в русской литературе. Автор десяти романов, а также ряда повестей, рассказов, пьес и киносценариев. Лауреат премий Андрея Белого, «НОС», «Большая книга» и других, номинант Международной Букеровской премии. Книги переведены на десятки языков. В России произведения Владимира Сорокина много р...

Elena Sorokina

Еле́на Генна́дьевна Соро́кина (род. 6 апреля 1940, Москва) — российская пианистка, музыковед-историк, профессор и заведующая кафедрой истории русской музыки Московской консерватории. Доктор искусствоведения (1990). Проректор по научной и творческой работе (с 2001 г.), заведующая кафедрой истории русской музыки, профессор кафедры истории русской музыки, профессор кафедры камерного ансамбля и квартета Московской консерватории. Организатор и первый президент (совместно с А. Г. Бахчиевым) Все...

Vladimir Sofronitsky

Vladimir Vladimirovich Sofronitsky (or Sofronitzky; Russian: Влади́мир Влади́мирович Софрони́цкий, Vladimir Sofronitskij; May 8 [O.S. April 25] 1901 – August 29, 1961) was a Soviet-Russian classical pianist, best known as an interpreter of the Russian composer Alexander Scriabin and Frédéric Chopin.

Vladimir Spivakov

Vladimir Teodorovich Spivakov (Russian: Владимир Теодорович Спиваков) (born September 12, 1944 in Ufa) is a leading Russian conductor and violinist best known for his work with the Moscow Virtuosi chamber orchestra. At the age of 13, Spivakov was awarded the first prize at the major conductor contest in Moscow. He studied at the Moscow Conservatory under Yuri Yankelevich and debuted with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra in 1979. The same year he established the Moscow Virtuosi chamber orche...

Orchestra and Chorus of the Moscow Academic Music Theatre. K. Stanislavsky and V. Nemirovich-Danchenko

The Stanislavski and Nemirovich-Danchenko Moscow Academic Music Theatre (Московский Академический Музыкальный Театр имени народных артистов К. С. Станиславского и В. И. Немировича-Данченко) is a musical theatre in Moscow. The theatre was created on 1 September 1941 when the Stanislavski Opera Theatre and Vladimir Nemirovich-Danchenko's musical theatre were merged. Although Constantin Stanislavski and Nemirovich worked together at the Moscow Art Theatre (which they had established in 1898), ...

Alexei Stanchinsky

Alexei Vladimirovich Stanchinsky (Russian: Алексей Владимирович Станчинский; 9 March (OS) / 21 March 1888 – 25 September (OS) / 6 October 1914), was a Russian composer. From a young age Stanchinsky was a gifted musician, composing and performing his first works at the age of six years. At the age of 16, he continued to develop his skills by taking lessons from music educators such as Josef Lhévinne and Konstantin Eiges for piano, and Nikolai Zhilyayev and Alexander Grechaninov for cou...

Cesare Sterbini

Cesare Sterbini (born 1784 in Rome – January 19, 1831) was an Italian writer and librettist. Possessing a deep knowledge of classical and contemporary culture, philosophy, linguistics, he was fluent in Greek, Latin, Italian, French and German. He is best known as the librettist for two operas by Gioachino Rossini: Torvaldo e Dorliska (1815) and The Barber of Seville (1816). An official in the Pontifical Administration, he also set poetry to music as an amateur. He wrote the libretto to th...

Einar Steen-Nøkleberg

Einar Steen-Nøkleberg (born 25 April 1944) is a Norwegian classical pianist and musical pedagogue. Steen-Nøkleberg was born in Østre Toten to farmer Jacob Steen-Nøkleberg and Signe Sveen. He has recorded more than fifty albums, and toured all over Europe, in America, Asia and the Soviet Union. He was appointed professor at the Hochschule für Musik, Theater und Medien Hannover from 1975 to 1982, and professor at the Norwegian Academy of Music from 1982. He was awarded the Norwegian Mus...

Igor Stravinsky

Igor Fyodorovich Stravinsky ComSE (/strəˈvɪnski/; Russian: Игорь Фёдорович Стравинский, IPA: [ˈiɡərʲ ˈfʲɵdərəvʲɪtɕ strɐˈvʲinskʲɪj]; 17 June [O.S. 5 June] 1882 – 6 April 1971) was a Russian composer, pianist, and conductor. He is widely considered one of the most important and influential composers of the 20th century. Stravinsky's compositional career was notable for its stylistic diversity. He first achieved international fame with three ballets commissioned by the impresario Serge D...

Borislav Strulev

Борислав Борисович Струлёв (род. 21 августа 1976, Москва) — виолончелист исключительного темперамента и техники, один из первых начавший исполнять джаз на виолончели. В 1992 году стал победителем Всероссийского конкурса молодых артистов в Москве и лауреатом Международного благотворительного фонда Новые Имена. Борислав играет на виолончели французского мастера Жан Батист Вийом (фр. Jean-Baptiste Vuillaume) Париж, 1844. Живёт и работает...

Ivan Surikov

Ivan Zakharovich Surikov (Russian: Ива́н Заха́рович Су́риков, April 6, 1841, Novosyolovo, Uglich, Yaroslavl, Russian Empire– May 6, 1880, Moscow) was a Russian self-taught peasant poet, best known for his folklore-influenced ballads, some of which were put to music by well-known composers (Tchaikovsky, Cui, Rimsky-Korsakov, Gretchaninov among them), while some ("Rowan", "Steppe" and others) became real folk songs.

Sergei Taneyev

Серге́й Ива́нович Тане́ев (13 ноября 1856, Владимир — 6 июня 1915, Дютьково под Звенигородом) — русский композитор, пианист, педагог, учёный, музыкально-общественный деятель. Родился 13 ноября 1856 года во Владимире. Принадлежал к роду дворян, ведущему свою историю с XV века. Его отец — Иван Ильич Танеев — помещик, статский советник, магистр словесности, врач, музыкант-любитель. С пяти лет учился игре на фортепиано. После переезда в Мо...

Mikhail Tanich

Mikhail Isaievich Tanich (Tankhilevich) (Russian: Михаил Исаевич Танич) (September 15, 1923 – April 17, 2008) was a popular Russian song lyrics writer of Jewish descent, a laureate of the Interior Ministry Award (1997), a laureate of the jubilee contest The Song of the Year devoted to the 25th anniversary of that television program, a laureate of nearly all the annual festivals The Song of the Year, and a laureate of the Ovation National Music Award (1997).

Mikael Tariverdiev

Mikael Leonovich Tariverdiev (Russian: Микаэл Леонович Таривердиев, Armenian: Միքայել Թարիվերդիև; 15 August 1931 – 24 July 1996) was a prominent Soviet composer of Armenian descent. He headed the Composers' Guild of the Soviet Cinematographers' Union from its inception and is most famous for his movie scores, primarily the score to Seventeen Moments of Spring.

Aleksandr Tvardovsky

Aleksandr Trifonovich Tvardovsky (Russian: Александр Трифонович Твардовский, IPA: [ɐlʲɪkˈsandr ˈtrʲifənəvʲɪtɕ tvɐrˈdofskʲɪj]; 21 June [O.S. 8 June] 1910 – 18 December 1971) was a Soviet poet and writer and chief editor of Novy Mir literary magazine from 1950 to 1954 and 1958 to 1970. His name has also been rendered in English as Aleksandr Trifonovich Tvardovski, Aleksandr Tvardovski, and Alexander Tvardovsky (though "Aleksandr Tvardovsky" is by far the most common spelling).

Georg Philipp Telemann

Georg Philipp Telemann (24 March [O.S. 14 March] 1681 – 25 June 1767) (German pronunciation: [ˈteːləman]) was a German Baroque composer and multi-instrumentalist. Almost completely self-taught in music, he became a composer against his family's wishes. After studying in Magdeburg, Zellerfeld, and Hildesheim, Telemann entered the University of Leipzig to study law, but eventually settled on a career in music. He held important positions in Leipzig, Sorau, Eisenach, and Frankfurt before set...

Yuri Temirkanov

Yuri Khatuevich Temirkanov (Russian: Ю́рий Хату́евич Темирка́нов; Kabardian: Темыркъан Хьэту и къуэ Юрий; born December 10, 1938) is a Russian conductor of Circassian (Kabardian) origin. Temirkanov has been the Music Director and Chief Conductor of the St. Petersburg Philharmonic since 1988.

Valentina Tolkunova

Valentina Vasilevna Tolkunova (Russian: Валенти́на Васи́льевна Толкуно́ва, 12 July 1946 – 22 March 2010) was a Soviet and Russian singer and was bestowed the title of Honored Artist of RSFSR (1979) and People’s Artist of the RSFSR (1987). Her performances exhibited a kindhearted mood and sincerity, and her voice was noted for its clarity.

Aleksey Tolstoy

Aleksey Nikolayevich Tolstoy (Russian: Алексе́й Никола́евич Толсто́й; 10 January 1883 [O.S. 29 December 1882] – 23 February 1945), nicknamed the Comrade Count, was a Russian and Soviet writer who wrote in many genres but specialized in science fiction and historical novels. During World War II, he served on an Extraordinary State Commission which "ascertained without reasonable doubt" the mass extermination of people in gas vans by the German occupiers. His work in the investiga...

David Tukhmanov

David Fyodorovich Tukhmanov PAR (Russian: Дави́д Фёдорович Тухма́нов, was born on July 20, 1940, in Moscow, USSR) is a Soviet and Russian composer. People's Artist of Russia (2000), State Prize of Russian Federation (2003).

Fyodor Tyutchev

Fyodor Ivanovich Tyutchev (Russian: Фёдор Иванович Тютчев, Pre-Reform orthography: Ѳедоръ Ивановичъ Тютчевъ; December 5 [O.S. November 23] 1803 – July 27 [O.S. July 15] 1873) was a Russian poet and diplomat.

Eduard Uspensky

Eduard Nikolayevich Uspensky (Russian: Эдуард Николаевич Успенский; 22 December 1937 – 14 August 2018) was a Russian children's writer and poet, author of over 70 books, as well as a playwright, screenwriter and TV presenter. His works have been translated into 25 languages and spawned around 60 cartoon adaptations. Among the characters he created are Cheburashka and Crocodile Gena, Uncle Fyodor and Kolobki brothers. He was awarded IV Class Order "For Merit to the Fatherland" in 1997.

Leonid Utyosov

Leonid Osipovich Utyosov or Utesov (Russian: Леони́д О́сипович Утёсов); real name Lazar (Leyzer) Iosifovich Vaysbeyn or Weissbein (Russian: Ла́зарь (Ле́йзер) Ио́сифович Вайсбе́йн) (21 March [O.S. 9 March] 1895, Odessa – 9 March 1982, Moscow), was a famous Soviet jazz singer and comic actor of Jewish origin, who became the first pop singer to be awarded the prestigious title of People's Artist of the USSR in 1965.

Yuri Favorin

Юрий Владимирович Фаворин (17 декабря 1986, Москва) — российский пианист. Родился в Москве, учился игре на фортепиано и кларнете сначала в Детской школе искусств № 11, затем, в 1995—2004 гг., — в Средней специальной музыкальной школе им. Гнесиных, которую окончил по классу фортепиано, кларнета и композиции (преподаватели — Л. А. Григорьева, И. П. Мозговенко и В. Б. Довгань). В 2004—2009 гг. учился в Московской консерватории по классу фортепиано у профессора М. С. Воскресенского. ...