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  • Yuri Antónovich Mazurók (Russian Ю́рий Анто́нович Мазуро́к, 18 July 1931 in Kraśnik – April 2006 in Moscow), PAU, was a Russian operatic baritone of Ukrainian ethnicity. He sang leading roles with major opera houses internationally, including the Bolshoi Theatre, where he made his debut as Eugene Onegin, to become his most famous part, in 1963, the Canadian Opera Company, the Metropolitan Opera (La traviata, Eugene Onegin, and Tosca), the Royal Opera, London, and the Vienna State Opera.  ...
  • Екатерина Васильевна Мечетина (род. 16 сентября 1978, Москва, СССР) — российская пианистка, педагог. Солистка Московской государственной филармонии. Заслуженная артистка Российской Федерации (2018)[1]. Лауреат Премии Президента Российской Федерации (2011).
  • Юрий Владимирович Медяник (род. 21 февраля 1983, Амвросиевка, Донецкая область, УССР) — российский дирижёр, музыкант-мультиинструменталист и народный артист России. Лауреат нескольких международных конкурсов.
  • Nikolai Karlovich Medtner (Russian: Никола́й Ка́рлович Ме́тнер, Nikoláj Kárlovič Métner; 5 January 1880 [O.S. 24 December 1879] – 13 November 1951) was a Russian composer and pianist. After a period of comparative obscurity in the twenty-five years immediately after his death, he is now becoming recognized as one of the most significant Russian composers for the piano. A younger contemporary of Sergei Rachmaninoff and Alexander Scriabin, he wrote a substantial number of compositions, ...
  •      Lev Aleksandrovich Mei (Russian: Лев Алекса́ндрович Мей; 25 February [O.S. 13 February] 1822 – 28 May [O.S. 16 May] 1862) was a Russian dramatist and poet. Mei was born on 13/25 February 1822, in Moscow. His father was a German officer who was wounded in the Battle of Borodino and died young. His mother was Russian. Mei completed his studies in Moscow in 1841 and served in the office of the Governor for 10 years. He became part of the "young editorial staff" of Mikhail Pogodin's ...
  • Alexander Shamil'evich Melik-Pashayev (Russian: Александр Шамильевич Мелик-Пашаев; 23 October 1905, in Tbilisi – 18 June 1964), PAU, was a Soviet-Armenian conductor. He made numerous highly regarded recordings with Melodiya in the 1940s and 1950s including memorable versions of Boris Godunov and The Queen of Spades.
  • Jakob Ludwig Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy (3 February 1809 – 4 November 1847), born and widely known as Felix Mendelssohn, was a German composer, pianist, organist and conductor of the early Romantic period. Mendelssohn's compositions include symphonies, concertos, piano music and chamber music. His best-known works include his overture and incidental music for A Midsummer Night's Dream, the Italian Symphony, the Scottish Symphony, the oratorio Elijah, the overture The Hebrides, his mature...
  • Евгений Иванович Муравьёв (род. 8 января 1961 года, Казань, ТАССР, РСФСР, СССР) — российский поэт-песенник, драматург. Автор текстов популярных песен, исполняемых звёздами российской эстрады и либретто мюзиклов.
  • Hilarion Alfeyev (born Grigoriy Valerievich Alfeyev, 24 July 1966) is a bishop of the Russian Orthodox Church. At present he is the Metropolitan of Volokolamsk, the chairman of the Department of External Church Relations and a permanent member of the Holy Synod of the Patriarchate of Moscow. He is also a noted theologian, church historian and composer and has published books on dogmatic theology, patristics and church history as well as numerous compositions for choir and orchestra.
  • Vladimir Georgievich Migulya (Russian: Владимир Георгиевич Мигуля; August 18, 1945 – February 16, 1996) was a Soviet and Russian musician, singer and composer. He authored many popular songs in the 1970s and the 1990s. He collaborated with the group Zemlyane. In 1988 he was named Honored Artist of the RSFSR Migulya wrote the music of the first Hymn of Cosmonautics of Russia Grass by the Home. He was a 14-times laureate of the festival "Pesnya Goda".
  • Никита Мндоянц родился в 1989 году в Москве в семье музыкантов. Получил образование как пианист и композитор в Центральной музыкальной школе при Московской консерватории, Московской консерватории и аспирантуре, где его педагогами были Т. Л. Колосс, профессора А. А. Мндоянц и Н. А. Петров (фортепиано), Т. А. Чудова и А. В. Чайковский (композиция). Во время учёбы успешно выступал на международных конкурсах пианистов имени И. Я. Падеревского в Польше (2007, Первая премия) и В. Клайберна в США (2...
  • Boris Andreyevich Mokrousov (Russian: Бори́с Андре́евич Мокроу́сов; 27 February 1909, Nizhny Novgorod — 27 March 1968, Moscow) was a Soviet composer. In 1948, for four of his songs he was awarded the Stalin Prize. In 1962 he was bestowed the title of Meritorious Art Worker of the Chuvash ASSR.
  • Larisa Izrailevna Mondrus (Latvian: Larisa Mondrusa, Russian: Лари́са Изра́илевна Мо́ндрус, German: Larissa Mondrus; born 15 November 1943) is a Soviet singer (soprano), who was popular in the USSR in the 1960s. In 1973 she emigrated to West Germany. She sang in Latvian, Russian, English and German.
  • An independent musical collective aimed at promoting 20th and 21st century works and supporting contemporary composers. Established in 1990 by composer Yuri Kasparov with the direct participation of composer Edison Denisov.
  • Московский государственный академический симфонический оркестр (МГАСО) — музыкальный коллектив России. МГАСО был основан в 1943 г. правительством СССР и является одним из старейших симфонических оркестров России. Первым главным дирижером коллектива стал дирижер Большого театра Народный артист СССР Лев Штейнберг. Он возглавлял оркестр до конца жизни (1945). Затем руководство МГАСО осуществляли такие прославленные советские музыканты, как Леонид Худолей (1945–1948), Николай Аносов ...
  • Moscow Guitar Trio — a legendary musical ensemble of the Soviet era, active for over fifteen years and leaving a significant mark on the history of domestic light music. The project began as a duo of two talented musicians — Alexey Yakushev and Yuri Greshchenko, who had served as domra players in the Red Banner Song and Dance Ensemble named after Alexandrov. However, seeking greater artistic freedom, they switched from the domra to the guitar and began performing as a guitar duo, appearing bo...
  •      Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (German: ˈvɔlfɡaŋ amaˈdeːʊs ˈmoːtsaʁt; 27 January 1756 – 5 December 1791), baptised as Johannes Chrysostomus Wolfgangus Theophilus Mozart, was a prolific and influential composer of the Classical era. Mozart showed prodigious ability from his earliest childhood. Already competent on keyboard and violin, he composed from the age of five and performed before European royalty. At 17, he was engaged as a court musician in Salzburg, but grew restless and travelled in se...
  • Yevgeny Aleksandrovich Mravinsky (Russian: Евге́ний Алекса́ндрович Мрави́нский) (4 June [O.S. 22 May] 1903 – 19 January 1988) was a Soviet and Russian conductor.
  • Vadim Iosifovich Mulerman (Russian: Вади́м Ио́сифович Мулерма́н; 18 August 1938 – 2 May 2018) was a Soviet, Russian and American singer (baritone). He was awarded the titles of Meritorious Artist of the RSFSR (1978), People's Artist of the RSFSR and Merited Artist of Ukraine.  In 1971, at the whim of Sergey Lapin, the then Chairman of the USSR State Committee for Radio and Television (Gosteleradio), Mulerman, along with several other singers of Jewish descent, was de facto barred ...
  • Modest Petrovich Mussorgsky (Russian: Моде́ст Петро́вич Му́соргский,  21 March 1839 – 28 March 1881) was a Russian composer, one of the group known as "The Five". He was an innovator of Russian music in the romantic period. He strove to achieve a uniquely Russian musical identity, often in deliberate defiance of the established conventions of Western music. Many of his works were inspired by Russian history, Russian folklore, and other national themes. Such works include the opera Bo...
  • Vagif Aziz oglu Mustafa-zade (1940, Baku – 1979, Tashkent) was an outstanding Azerbaijani jazz composer and pianist whose name is forever etched in the history of jazz. He was the first jazz performer in the USSR to receive the title of "Honored Artist" and left behind a rich legacy that continues to inspire musicians. Vagif was born on March 16, 1940, in Baku, the son of a medical major. After his father's tragic death, his mother, a teacher of Azerbaijani folk music, took on the ...
  •      Nikolai Yakovlevich Myaskovsky or Miaskovsky or Miaskowsky (Russian: Никола́й Я́ковлевич Мяско́вский; 20 April [O.S. 8 April] 1881 – 8 August 1950) 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, more than any other composer. Myaskovsky has not been as popular on recordings as have Shostakovich and Prokofiev. Still, most of his works have been recorded, many of them more th...
  • The vocal ensemble N'Caged was founded by Arina Zvereva in 2013. The main goal of the ensemble is to perform contemporary music.
  • Tõnu Naissoo was born on March 18, 1951, in Tallinn, into the family of the renowned composer Uno Naissoo. At the age of six, he began studying piano at the Tallinn Music School, where he acquired his first musical skills. In 1970, he successfully graduated from the school with a degree in music theory, and in 1982, he completed his studies at the Tallinn State Conservatory in composition under the guidance of Eino Tamberg. Naissoo’s creative journey began quite early. Already as a te...
  • Stas Namin is a Russian rock musician and cult figure. He is one of the founders of Russian rock music, the creator and leader of the legendary band The Flowers, which has sold more than 60 million records on the territory of the USSR and Eastern Bloc countries over its half-century of existence, and the author of many popular songs including "Summer Evening", "Nostalgia for the Present" and "We Wish You Happiness!" Namin organized the country's first independent production company, (SNC)...
  • Eduard Francevič Nápravník (Russian: Эдуа́рд Фра́нцевич Напра́вник; 24 August 1839 – 10 November 1916) was a Czech conductor and composer. Nápravník settled in Russia and is best known for his leading role in Russian musical life as the principal conductor of the Imperial Mariinsky Theatre in Saint Petersburg for many decades. In that capacity, he conducted the premieres of many operas by Russian composers, including those by Mussorgsky, Tchaikovsky and Rimsky-Korsakov.
  • Никола́й Никола́евич Некра́сов (30 июня 1932, Москва — 21 марта 2012, Москва) — советский российский дирижёр, педагог. Народный артист СССР (1988).
  • Yevgeny Yevgenievich Nesterenko (Евгений Евгеньевич Нестеренко, born 8 January 1938) is a Soviet and Russian operatic bass. Nesterenko's first profession was architecture, and in fact he graduated from the Saint-Petersburg State University of Architecture and Civil Engineering in Leningrad. But he was called to music, and he studied under Vasily Lukanin at the Leningrad Conservatory. At his last year at the conservatory (1965) Nesterenko was invited to sing at Leningrad's Maly Opera Th...
  • Heinrich Gustaw Neuhaus (Polish: Henryk (Harry) Neuhaus, Russian: Ге́нрих Густа́вович Нейга́уз, Genrikh Gustavovič Nejgauz, 12 April [O.S. 31 March] 1888 – 10 October 1964) was a Ukrainian-born pianist and teacher of German and Polish extraction. Part of a musical dynasty, he grew up in a Polish-speaking household. He taught at the Moscow Conservatory from 1922 to 1964. He was made a People's Artist of the RSFSR in 1956. His piano textbook The Art of Piano Playing (1958) is regarded as one of...
  • Yulia Igonina (first violin) Elena Kharitonova (second violin) Mikhail Rudoy (viola) Alexey Steblev (cello)
  • Ivan Mikhailovich Nikiforchin (born February 15, 1995, Moscow) is a Russian conductor, founder, artistic director and chief conductor of the Academy of Russian Music Symphony Chapel. He is also the artistic director and chief conductor of the Moscow State Academic Symphony Orchestra. In 2025, he became a laureate of the Prize of the President of the Russian Federation for young cultural figures. Biography Ivan Nikiforchin was born in 1995 in Moscow. In 2020, he graduated from ...
  • Alexander Nikolaychuk is a balalaika performer, graduate of the Gnessin Russian Academy of Music, laureate of all-Russian and international competitions, soloist of the N.P. Osipov NAONIR, soloist of the “Balalaika Trio” project. Born in Irkutsk, at the age of seven he began to study music under the guidance of A. Glukman. At the age of 18 he moved to Moscow to continue his studies at the Gnessin Russian Academy of Music (class of Professor A. Gorbachev), in 2020 he completed his postgr...
  • Tatyana Petrovna Nikolayeva (Russian: Татья́на Петро́вна Никола́ева, Tat'jana Petrovna Nikolaeva; May 4, 1924 – November 22, 1993) was a Russian Soviet pianist, composer and teacher.
  • Elmir Nizamov (b. 1986) – pianist and composer, Honoured Art Worker of the Republic of Tatarstan, laureate of the President of the Russian Federation Prize for Young Cultural Workers (2020), member of the Union of Composers of Russia, member of the Union of Composers of the Republic of Tatarstan, laureate of the D. Siraziev Prize. Born on 24 December 1986 in Ulyanovsk. He entered music school at the age of 11. In 2006 he graduated from the piano department of the Ulyanovsk Music Colle...
  • Valery Vladimirovich Obodzinsky (1942 — 1997) was a Soviet and Russian pop singer (tenor), Honored Artist of the Mari ASSR. In 1962, he began performing at the Tomsk Philharmonic, then at the Kostroma Philharmonic. In 1966-1967 he worked in the orchestra of O. Lundstrom. In 1969, he became the first Soviet performer of The Beatles song. In 1970, he released his first LP. In the 1970s, he became popular thanks to the songs "These eyes opposite", "Oriental Song", "Mirage" and ...
  • Lev Nikolayevich Oborin (Russian: Лев Николаевич Оборин, Lev Nikolaevič Oborin; Moscow, 11 September [O.S. 29 August] 1907 – Moscow, 5 January 1974) was a Russian pianist. He was the winner of the first International Chopin Piano Competition in 1927. The family moved frequently during his early childhood. When they settled down in Moscow in 1914, he was sent to music school. He studied with Elena Gnesina, a pupil of Ferruccio Busoni. At the same time, he studied composition with Alexa...
  • Elena Vasiliyevna Obraztsova (7 July 1939 – 12 January 2015) was a Russian mezzo-soprano. People's Artist of the USSR (1976).
  • Nikolay Platonovich Ogarev (Ogaryov; Russian: Никола́й Плато́нович Огарёв; December 6 [O.S. November 24] 1813 – June 12 [O.S. May 31] 1877) was a Russian poet, historian and political activist. He was deeply critical of the limitations of the Emancipation reform of 1861 claiming that the serfs were not free but had simply exchanged one form of serfdom for another. Ogarev was a fellow-exile and collaborator of Alexander Herzen on Kolokol, a newspaper printed in England and smuggled int...
  • David Fyodorovich Oistrakh (30 September [O.S. 17 September] 1908 – 24 October 1974), was a Soviet classical violinist, violist and conductor. Oistrakh collaborated with major orchestras and musicians from many parts of the world, and was the dedicatee of numerous violin works, including both of Dmitri Shostakovich's violin concerti, and the violin concerto by Aram Khachaturian. He is considered one of the preeminent violinists of the 20th century.
  • Igor Davidovich Oistrakh (Russian: И́горь Дави́дович О́йстрах; Ukrainian: Ігор Давидович Ойстрах April 27, 1931 – August 14, 2021) was a Russian violinist.
  • Bulat Shalvovich Okudzhava (Russian: Була́т Ша́лвович Окуджа́ва; Georgian: ბულატ ოკუჯავა; Armenian: Բուլատ Օկուջավա; May 9, 1924 – June 12, 1997) was a Soviet and Russian poet, writer, musician, novelist, and singer-songwriter of Georgian-Armenian ancestry. He was one of the founders of the Soviet genre called "author song" (авторская песня, avtorskaya pesnya), or "guitar song", and the author of about 200 songs, set to his own poetry. His songs are a mixture of Russian poetic and folksong tr...
  • Naum Mironovich Olev (real name Rosenfeld; 22 February 1939, Moscow - 9 April 2009) was a Soviet and Russian songwriter, journalist, translator and film actor. From 1988 he was a prominent gallery owner in Moscow and took part in its social life.  He was born on 22 February 1939 into a Jewish family not connected with art. His mother worked as a teacher and taught the history of the USSR, his father was a car repair shop manager. He studied at the University of Tartu (Estonia) and the M...
  • OpensoundOrchestra is an orchestra specializing in the performance of contemporary music. The collective was founded in 2018 by violinist and conductor Stanislav Malyshev and cellist Olga Kalinova. The name Opensound is a metaphor for the wide variety of music the collective performs. The orchestra's repertoire includes works by Russian and foreign composers of various genres.
  • Полина Олеговна Осетинская (р. 1975) — советская и российская пианистка. Начала играть на фортепиано в пять лет, в шесть лет дала первый сольный концерт в Вильнюсской консерватории. Позже педагогами будущей пианистки стали преемницы исполнительской школы Генриха Нейгауза Марина Вениаминовна Вольф в Санкт-Петербурге и Вера Васильевна Горностаева в Москве. Полину Осетинскую можно услышать в  Карнеги-холле, венском Мюзикферайне, лондонском Барбикане, римском Театро Ардж...
  • ОСЕЙЧУ́К Александр Викторович (р. 24 октября 1949, пос. Лама Красноярского края), российский джазовый музыкант (альт-саксофон), бэндлидер. Музыкой начал заниматься с семи лет. Окончив Музыкальное училище им. Гнесиных в 1971 по классу кларнета, поступает в Государственный музыкально-педагогический институт им. Гнесиных по классу саксофона экспериментально, поскольку класс саксофона был открыт официально только в 1974. В 1...
  • Lev Ivanovich Oshanin (Russian: Лев Ива́нович Оша́нин; May 30, 1912 – December 30, 1996) was a poet, author of over 70 books of poetry, novels and poetry plays winner of the Stalin Prize of the first degree (1950) and winner of the World Festival of Youth and Students.
  • Oskar Davidovich Strok (Latvian. Oskars Stroks, 6 [18] January 1893, Dinaburg, Vitebsk Province, Russian Empire - 22 June 1975, Riga, Latvian SSR, USSR) was a Latvian composer and pianist, nicknamed the "Riga Tango King". He studied piano at the St Petersburg Conservatoire under Nikolai Dubasov and worked as an accompanist on the stage and in the film industry. The main years of Strok's life and work were spent in Riga, where he performed regular concerts in the famous dansing cabaret r...
  • Alexander Nikolayevich Ostrovsky (Russian: Алекса́ндр Никола́евич Остро́вский; 12 April [O.S. 31 March] 1823  – 14 June [O.S. 2 June] 1886) was a Russian playwright, generally considered the greatest representative of the Russian realistic period. The author of 47 original plays, Ostrovsky "almost single-handedly created a Russian national repertoire." His dramas are among the most widely read and frequently performed stage pieces in Russia.
  • Irina Adolfovna Otieva (born November 22, 1958, Tbilisi) - Soviet and Russian jazz and pop singer of Armenian origin, Honored Artist of Russia (1997), winner of international competitions, a performer of Russian jazz, composer, songwriter. 
  • Georg Ots (21 March 1920 – 5 September 1975) was an Estonian singer and actor. People's Artist of the USSR (1960).
  • Niccolò (or Nicolò) Paganini (Italian: [ni(k)koˈlɔ ppaɡaˈniːni] (27 October 1782 – 27 May 1840) was an Italian violinist, violist, guitarist, and composer. He was the most celebrated violin virtuoso of his time, and left his mark as one of the pillars of modern violin technique. His 24 Caprices for Solo Violin Op. 1 are among the best known of his compositions, and have served as an inspiration for many prominent composers.
  • Aleksandra Nikolayevna Pakhmutova (Russian: Александра Николаевна Пахмутова; born 9 November 1929) 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. People's Artist of the USSR (1984). She was born on 9 November 1929 in Beketovka (now a neighbourhood in Volgograd), Russian SFSR, Soviet Union, and began playing the piano and composing music at an early ag...
  • Mariya Leonidovna Pakhomenko (25 March 1937 - 8 March 2013) was a Soviet and Russian pop singer. People's Artist of Russia (1998). Maria Pakhomenko was born on 25 March 1937 in Leningrad. There were four children in her parents' family: Ivan, Maria, Lyudmila and Galina. Her mother, Daria Mikhailovna, and father, Leonid Antonovich, were from the village of Lyutnya, Krasnopolsky district of the Belorussian SSR (now the Mogilev region of Belarus). Maria studied at an ordinary scho...
  • Boris Leonidovich Pasternak (/ˈpæstərnæk/; Russian: Борис Леонидович Пастернак, IPA: [bɐˈrʲis lʲɪɐˈnʲidəvʲɪtɕ pəstɛrˈnak]; 10 February [O.S. 29 January] 1890 – 30 May 1960) was a Russian poet, novelist, composer, and literary translator. Composed in 1917, Pasternak's first book of poems, My Sister, Life, was published in Berlin in 1922 and soon became an important collection in the Russian language. Pasternak's translations of stage plays by Goethe, Schiller, Calderón de la Barca and Shak...
  • Ojārs Raimonds Pauls (born 12 January 1936 in Iļģuciems, Riga, Latvia) is a Latvian composer and piano player who is well known in Latvia, Russia, post-Soviet countries and world-wide. 
  • Pesniary (also spelled Pesnyary, Belarusian: Песняры, [pʲesʲnʲaˈrɨ]) was a popular Soviet Belarusian folk rock VIA. It was founded in 1969 by guitarist Vladimir Mulyavin. Before 1970, the band was known under the name Liavony (Лявоны).
  • Andrey Pavlovich Petrov (Russian: Андре́й Па́влович Петро́в; September 2, 1930 – February 15, 2006) 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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