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  • 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...
  • 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...
  • "Samotsveti" is a Soviet and Russian vocal and instrumental ensemble (musical group). The founder and permanent leader is People's Artist of Russia Yury Malikov. It is best known for performing such songs as "I'll Take You to the Tundra", "My Address is the Soviet Union", "All Life Ahead", "All That I Have in Life".
  • Kurt Sanderling, CBE (19 September 1912 – 18 September 2011) was a German conductor. Sanderling was born in Arys, Kingdom of Prussia, German Empire (now Orzysz, Poland), to Jewish parents. His early work at the Deutsche Oper Berlin, where he served as repetiteur (rehearsal director) for Wilhelm Furtwängler and Erich Kleiber, was cut short when the Nazi regime removed him from his post because he was Jewish. He then left for the Soviet Union in 1936, where he worked with the Moscow Rad...
  • 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.
  • Вале́рий Вениами́нович Са́уткин (20 сентября 1943, Ярославль, СССР) — известный советский и российский поэт-песенник.
  • 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...
  • Alfred Garrievich Schnittke (Russian: Альфре́д Га́рриевич Шни́тке, Alfred Garriyevich Shnitke; 24 November 1934 – 3 August 1998) was a Soviet and German composer. Schnittke's early music shows the strong influence of Dmitri Shostakovich. He developed a polystylistic technique in works such as the epic Symphony No. 1 (1969–1972) and his first concerto grosso (1977). In the 1980s, Schnittke's music began to become more widely known abroad with the publication of his second (1980) and third (198...
  • Arnold Schoenberg or Schönberg (/ˈʃɜːrnbɜːrɡ/, US also /ˈʃoʊn-/; German: [ˈʃøːnbɛɐ̯k]); 13 September 1874 – 13 July 1951) was an Austrian-born composer, music theorist, teacher, writer, and painter. He is widely considered one of the most influential, if highly controversial[not verified in body] composers of the 20th century. He was associated with the expressionist movement in German poetry and art, and leader of the Second Viennese School. With the rise of the Nazi Party, Schoenberg's works w...
  •      Franz Peter Schubert (31 January 1797 – 19 November 1828) was an Austrian composer. Schubert died at 31 but was extremely prolific during his lifetime. His output consists of over six hundred secular vocal works (mainly Lieder), seven complete symphonies, sacred music, operas, incidental music and a large body of chamber and piano music. Appreciation of his music while he was alive was limited to a relatively small circle of admirers in Vienna, but interest in his work increased ...
  • Robert Schumann (German: [ˈʃuːman]; 8 June 1810 – 29 July 1856) was a German composer, pianist, and influential music critic. He is widely regarded as one of the greatest composers of the Romantic era. Schumann left the study of law, intending to pursue a career as a virtuoso pianist. His teacher, Friedrich Wieck, a German pianist, had assured him that he could become the finest pianist in Europe, but a hand injury ended this dream. Schumann then focused his musical energies on composing...
  • 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...
  • 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...
  •      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...
  • И́горь Давы́дович Шафера́н (настоящее имя — Гарольд Давыдович Шаферман; 13 февраля 1932, Одесса — 14 марта 1994, Москва) — советский поэт-песенник.
  • Daniil Borisovich Shafran (Russian: Даниил Борисович Шафран, 13 January 1923 – 7 February 1997) was a Soviet Russian cellist.
  • Vladimir Yakovlevich Shainsky (Russian: Владимир Яковлевич Шаинский, IPA: [vlɐˈdʲimʲɪr ʂɐˈinskʲɪj]; 12 December 1925 – 25 December 2017) was a Soviet and Russian composer.
  • Yuri Alexandrovich Shaporin (Russian: Юрий (Георгий) Александрович Шапорин) (November 8 [O.S. October 27] 1887 – 9 December 1966), PAU, was a Russian-Ukrainian Soviet composer.
  •      Rodion Konstantinovich Shchedrin (Russian: Родио́н Константи́нович Щедри́н, Rodion Konstantinovič Ščedrin; born December 16, 1932) is a Russian composer and pianist, winner of the Lenin (1984), USSR State Prize (1972) and the State Prize of the Russian Federation (1992), and a former member of the Interregional Deputy Group (1989–1991).
  • Dmitriy Dmitrievich Shostakovich, 25 September 1906 – 9 August 1975) was a Russian composer and pianist. He is regarded as one of the major composers of the 20th century.
  • Басиния Шульман - яркая представительница русской фортепианной школы. Родилась в Москве, музыкальное образование получила в Московской государственной Консерватории им. Чайковского (класс выдающейся пианистки, профессора Элисо Вирсаладзе), затем проходила аспирантскую стажировку в Брюссельской консерватории (под руководством Евгения Могилевского). Басиния Шульман лауреат международных конкурсов: 1990 - конкурс пианистов Хосе Итурби, Испания, 3 премия  19...
  • 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 ...
  • Ю́рий Васи́льевич Сила́нтьев (10 апреля 1919, с. Промзино Симбирской губернии — 8 февраля 1983, Москва) ― советский дирижёр, скрипач, композитор. Народный артист СССР (1975).
  • 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...
  • Tamara Sinyavskaya (born 6 July 1943, Moscow, USSR) is a Soviet and Russian opera singer (dramatic mezzo-soprano) and teacher. Winner of the Lenin Komsomol Prize (1980), People's Artist of the USSR (1982), People's Artist of Azerbaijan (2002).   She was born on 6 July 1943 in Moscow. At the age of six she enrolled in the Song and Dance Ensemble at the Palace of Pioneers in a dance group, but soon left ballet training. In 1953 she again came to the Palace of Pioneers, this time to st...
  • 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 (Yulian) Grigoryevich Sitkovetsky (7 November 1925 – 23 February 1958) was a Soviet violinist.
  • 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...
  • 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 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.
  • 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.
  •      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 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.
  •      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...
  •      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.
  • 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...
  • 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...
  • 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 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...
  • 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...
  • 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...
  •      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...
  •      Richard Georg Strauss (11 June 1864 – 8 September 1949) was a leading German composer of the late Romantic and early modern eras. He is known for his operas, which include Der Rosenkavalier and Salome; his lieder, especially his Four Last Songs; and his tone poems Death and Transfiguration, Till Eulenspiegel's Merry Pranks, Also sprach Zarathustra, An Alpine Symphony, and other orchestral works, such as Metamorphosen. Strauss was also a prominent conductor throughout Germany and Austria. ...
  • 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...
  • 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 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.
  • 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).
  • 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...
  • 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...
  • 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 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).
  • Arseny Tarasevich-Nikolaev (born 21 February 1993) is a Russian concert pianist born in Moscow. Tarasevich-Nikolaev's grandmother was Tatiana Nikolayeva. He began studying piano at the age of four. His public debut was at the age of nine with the Bryansk City Chamber Orchestra. From 2000 to 2011 he studied at the Central Music School of the Tchaikovsky Moscow State Conservatoire, where his teachers were Alexander Mndoyants. In 2011 he entered the Moscow Conservatoire and continued his piano s...
  • Elena Gennadyevna Tarasova (born 16 May 1984, Moscow, USSR) is a Russian pianist. Laureate of international competitions, Associate Professor at the Tchaikovsky Moscow State Conservatoire, member of the World Piano Teachers Association, member of the International Union of Musicians. Born on 16 May 1984 in Moscow. She began to study music at the age of four at Children's Music School No. 9 (class of Galina Sidorova). From 1990 to 2002 she studied under Olga Yevgenyevna Mechetina at the ...
  • 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.
  • Alexander Vladimirovich Tchaikovsky (born 19 February 1946, Moscow) is a Soviet and Russian composer, pianist, teacher, musician and public figure, professor at the Moscow Conservatoire. In 2004-2008 he was Rector of the St Petersburg Conservatoire. People's Artist of the Russian Federation (2005). Winner of the Prize of the Government of the Russian Federation (2017). Chairman of the Council of the Union of Composers of Russia since 2022.   Nephew of People's Artist of the USSR Boris Tch...
  •      Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (Russian: Пётр Ильи́ч Чайко́вский;[a 1] tr. Pyotr Ilyich Chaykovsky; 25 April/7 May 1840 – 25 October/6 November 1893),[a 2] often anglicised as Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky /ˈpiːtər .../, was a Russian composer whose works included symphonies, concertos, operas, ballets, chamber music, and a choral setting of the Russian Orthodox Divine Liturgy. Some of these are among the most popular theatrical music in the classical repertoire. He was the first Russian composer whos...
  • 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 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.
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