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  • Akkord is a Soviet musical group (quartet) that was active on the stage in 1960-1988.
  • Mikhail Davidovich Alexandrovich, a.k.a. Misha Alexandrovich (23 July 1914, Bērzpils, Vitebsk Governorate - 3 July 2002, Munich) was a Latvian Jewish tenor, and cantor, internationally acclaimed as a fine performer of classical and popular repertoire in several languages.  He performed for nearly 75 years, since his first concert as a 9-year old in Riga, until the last one, in Moscow, May 26, 1997
  • Тигра́н Абра́мович Алиха́нов (род. 22 января 1943, Москва) — советский и российский пианист, музыкально-общественный деятель, педагог, профессор Московской консерватории (1992), ректор Московской консерватории (2005—2009), народный артист Российской Федерации (2002).
  • Alexander Aleksandrovich Alyabyev (Russian: Алекса́ндр Алекса́ндрович Аля́бьев; 15 August [O.S. 4 August] 1787 – 6 March [O.S. 22 February] 1851), also rendered as Alabiev or Alabieff, was a Russian composer known as one of the fathers of the Russian art song. He wrote seven operas, twenty musical comedies, a symphony, three string quartets, more than 200 songs, and many other pieces.
  • Levon Ambartsumian (Russian: Лево́н Амбарцумя́н; Armenian: Լևոն Համբարձումյան; born 1955) is an Armenian classical violinist and conductor. Levon Ambartsumian currently lives and works in Athens, Georgia, United States. Levon Ambartsumian studied in the Moscow Central Music School and then in the Moscow Tchaikovsky Conservatory, where his teachers were Mikhail Garlitsky, Felix Andrievski, Yuri Yankelevich, Leonid Kogan and Igor Bezrodny. In 1977 he became the First Prize winner of Zag...
  • Zurab Anjaparidze (Georgian: ზურაბ ანჯაფარიძე; born April 12, 1928 – April 12, 1997) was a Soviet and Georgian tenor. People's Artist of the USSR (1966).
  • Борис Анатольевич Андрианов — один из ведущих российских музыкантов своего поколения. Он является идейным вдохновителем и руководителем проекта «Поколение звезд», в рамках которого проводятся концерты молодых талантливых музыкантов в разных городах и регионах России. Заслуженный артист России (2016).
  • Oleg Andreyevich Anofriyev (sometimes spelled as Oleg Anofriev, Russian: Оле́г Андре́евич Ано́фриев; 20 July 1930 – 28 March 2018), PAR, was a Soviet and Russian stage and screen actor, voice actor, singer, songwriter, film director, and poet. He was born in Gelendzhik, but spent all his life in Moscow and graduated from Moscow Art Theatre in 1954. He was widely popular in USSR (mostly due to the leading role in The Bremen Town Musicians animated film) and was honored with the title Honored A...
  • The Alexandrov Ensemble (Russian: Ансамбль Александрова, tr. Ansambl Aleksandrova; commonly known as the Red Army Choir in Western Europe) is an official army choir of the Russian armed forces. Founded during the Soviet era, the ensemble consists of a male choir, an orchestra, and a dance ensemble. The Ensemble has entertained audiences both in Russia and throughout the world, performing a range of music including folk tunes, hymns, operatic arias and popular music. The group's repert...
  • Артур Ансель родился в Париже в артистической семье. Его прабабушка – оперная дива Фани Эльди, мать танцевала у Мориса Бежара, отец – режиссер Жан-Филипп Ансель. Начав рано играть на фортепиано, Артур Ансель уже в семь лет посещал уроки гармонии в Высшей школе музыки имени Альфреда Корто в Париже. К этому же времени относятся первые концертные выступления пианиста. С 13 лет Артур Ансель участвовал в фортепианных конкурсах, был удостоен наград таких состязаний, как «Надежды, таланты, масте...
  • Aleksey Nikolayevich Apukhtin (Russian: Алексе́й Никола́евич Апу́хтин, IPA: [ɐlʲɪkˈsʲej nʲɪkɐˈlajɪvʲɪtɕ ɐˈpuxtʲɪn]) (November 27 [O.S. November 15] 1840 – August 29 [O.S. August 17] 1893) was a Russian poet, writer and critic.
  • Anton Stepanovich Arensky (Russian: Анто́н Степа́нович Аре́нский; 12 July [O.S. 30 June] 1861 – 25 February [O.S. 12 February] 1906) was a Russian composer of Romantic classical music, a pianist and a professor of music.
  •      Marco Armiliato, considered one of today’s most respected opera conductors, is a frequent guest in the world’s most prestigious opera houses. Highlights of the 2014-2015 season include returns to the Metropolitan Opera for Aida and La Traviata, Opernhaus Zürich for performances of La Fanciulla del West and La Traviata, Wiener Staatsoper for Tosca, Andrea Chenier, L’elisir d’amore, and Don Carlo, and Deutsche Oper Berlin for Faust. This past season included performances of Tosca, La Sonnam...
  • Дмитрий Левонович Атовмян (1952—2004) — советский и российский композитор, дирижёр, аранжировщик.
  • Arno Babajanian (Armenian: Առնո Բաբաջանյան) (January 22, 1921 – November 11, 1983) was an Armenian composer and pianist during the Soviet era.
  • Mily Alexeyevich Balakirev (Russian: Милий Алексеевич Балакирев, IPA: [ˈmʲilʲɪj ɐlʲɪkˈsʲeɪvʲɪtɕ bɐˈɫakʲɪrʲɪf]; 2 January 1837 [O.S. 21 December 1836] – 29 May [O.S. 16 May] 1910) was a Russian composer, pianist, and conductor known today primarily for his work promoting musical nationalism and his encouragement of more famous Russian composers, notably Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky. He began his career as a pivotal figure, extending the fusion of traditional folk music and experimental classic...
  •      Konstantin Dmitriyevich Balmont (Russian: Константи́н Дми́триевич Бальмо́нт; 15 June [O.S. 3 June] 1867 – 23 December 1942) was a Russian symbolist poet, translator, one of the major figures of the Silver Age of Russian Poetry.
  • Béla Viktor János Bartók (/ˈbeɪlə ˈbɑːrtɒk/; Hungarian: Bartók Béla, pronounced [ˈbɒrtoːk ˈbeːlɒ]; 25 March 1881 – 26 September 1945) was a Hungarian composer, pianist, and ethnomusicologist. He is considered one of the most important composers of the 20th century; he and Franz Liszt are regarded as Hungary's greatest composers. Through his collection and analytical study of folk music, he was one of the founders of comparative musicology, which later became ethnomusicology.
  • Rudolf Borisovich Barshai (Russian: Рудольф Борисович Баршай, September 28, 1924 – November 2, 2010) was a Soviet and Russian conductor and violist.
  • 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 го...
  • 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.
  • Иога́нн Себастья́н Бах (нем. Johann Sebastian Bach); 21 [31] марта 1685, Эйзенах, Саксен-Эйзенах — 28 июля 1750 [н. ст.], Лейпциг, Саксония, Священная Римская империя) — немецкий композитор, органист, капельмейстер, музыкальный педагог. Бах — автор более 1000 музыкальных произведений во всех значимых жанрах своего времени (кроме оперы). Творческое наследие Баха интерпретируетс...
  • Алекса́ндр Гео́ргиевич Бахчи́ев (27 июля 1930, Москва — 10 октября 2007, там же) — российский пианист, артист камерного ансамбля, концертмейстер, профессор Московской консерватории. Лауреат II премии конкурса III Всемирного фестиваля молодёжи и студентов (Берлин, 1951). Заслуженный артист РСФСР (1982). Народный артист Российской Федерации (2005).
  • Dmitri Aleksandrovich Bashkirov (Russian: Дми́трий Алекса́ндрович Башки́ров; born November 1, 1931) is a Russian pianist and educator.  Bashkirov was born in Tbilisi, Georgia. His great-aunt Lina Stern, a biochemist, physiologist and humanist was the first female member of the Soviet Academy of Sciences. He became an Honored Artist of the RSFSR in 1968 and a People's Artist of the RSFSR in 1990. He is a recording artist with the Swiss classical record label Claves, with which he has r...
  • Yuri Abramovich Bashmet (Russian: Юрий Абрамович Башмет; born 24 January 1953) is a Russian conductor, violinist, and violist.
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  •      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.
  • 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...
  • 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.
  • 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...
  • 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...
  •      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...
  • 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...
  • 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.
  • Иога́ннес Брамс (нем. Johannes Brahms [joːˈhanəs ˈbʁaːms]; 7 мая 1833, Гамбург — 3 апреля 1897, Вена) — немецкий композитор и пианист, один из центральных представителей эпохи романтизма.
  • 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...
  •      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.
  • Александр Бузлов (виолончель)— 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» — Алекса...
  • Anna Vladimirovna Buturlina (Russian: Анна Владимировна Бутурлина, born 31 May 1977) is a Russian jazz singer and musical actress.
  • Юрий Маркович Буцко́ (28 мая 1938, Лубны, Полтавская область, Украинская ССР, СССР — 25 апреля 2015, Москва, Россия) — советский и российский композитор.
  • 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...
  •      Wilhelm Richard Wagner (22 May 1813 – 13 February 1883) was a German composer, theatre director, polemicist, and conductor who is primarily known for his operas (or, as some of his later works were later known, "music dramas"). Unlike most opera composers, Wagner wrote both the libretto and the music for each of his stage works. Initially establishing his reputation as a composer of works in the romantic vein of Weber and Meyerbeer, Wagner revolutionised opera through his concept of the Ges...
  • Mieczysław Weinberg (also Moisey or Moishe Vainberg, Moisey Samuilovich Vaynberg; Russian: Моисей Самуилович Вайнберг; Polish: Mojsze [Mieczysław] Wajnberg; 8 December 1919 – 26 February 1996) was a Polish-born Soviet composer. Ever since a revival concert series in the 2010 Bergenz Festival in Austria, his music has been increasingly described as "some of the most individual and compelling music of the twentieth century". Weinberg's output was extensive, encompassing 26 symphonies, 17 string...
  • Вазге́н Суре́нович Вартаня́н (род. 18 марта 1974, Москва) — российский и армянский пианист. Вазген Суренович Вартанян родился 18 марта 1974 года в Москве, окончил Московскую государственную консерваторию имени П. И. Чайковского, его преподавателями были пианист Лев Николаевич Власенко, пианист и композитор Дмитрий Николаевич Сахаров, Алла Зиновьевна Турянская. Вазген Вартанян стажировался в Америке, в Джульярдской школе у&n...
  • Барон Карл Мария Фридрих Август (Эрнст) фон Вебер (нем. Carl Maria von Weber; 18 или 19 ноября 1786, Ойтин — 5 июня 1826, Лондон) — немецкий композитор, дирижёр, пианист, музыкальный писатель, основоположник, вместе с Э.Т.А. Гофманом, немецкой романтической оперы, предшественник Вагнера.
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