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Rodion Shchedrin

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).

Dmitri Shostakovich

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.

Basinia Shulman

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

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...

Tamara Sinyavskaya

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 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.

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.

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.

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.

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...

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.

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...

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 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...

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...

State Symphony Cinema Orchestra

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...

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...

Richard Strauss

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 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.

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).

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...

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...

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).

Arseny Tarasevich-Nikolaev

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 Tarasova

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 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.

Natalya Tchaikovskaya

Alexander Tchaikovsky

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

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

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.

The USSR Ministry of Culture Symphony Orchestra

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...

Alexander Tsfasman

Alexander Naumovich Tsfasman (Russian: Александр Цфасман; born December 14, 1906 - died February 20, 1971) was a Soviet Jazz pianist, composer, conductor, arranger, publisher and activist. He was an important figure in Soviet Jazz from the period of the mid-1920s until the late 1960s. Tsfasman was born in Alexandrovsk (now Zaporizhya, Ukraine) in the Russian empire, and graduated from the Nizhegorod Musical Technicum in 1923, where he played percussion in the orchestra, and graduated...

Marina Tsvetaeva

Marina Ivanovna Tsvetaeva (Russian: Марина Ивановна Цветаева, IPA: [mɐˈrʲinə ɪˈvanəvnə tsvʲɪˈta(j)ɪvə]; 8 October [O.S. 26 September] 1892 – 31 August 1941) was a Russian poet. Her work is considered among some of the greatest in twentieth century Russian literature.[1] She lived through and wrote of the Russian Revolution of 1917 and the Moscow famine that followed it. In an attempt to save her daughter Irina from starvation, she placed her in a state orphanage in 1919, where she died of hun...

Tsvety

Tsvety (Russian: Цветы, lit. 'The Flowers') is a Soviet and Russian rock band formed in 1969 by guitarist and songwriter Stas Namin. It was one of the first Russian bands to play rock music on the Soviet stage. According to the magazine “Itogi”, “the whole Russian non-format began with it”. In 1973 “Flowers” as a student ensemble released flexible records on the firm “Melodiya”, which sold out 7-million copies. Having gained huge popularity in the USSR, the group began its professional touring...

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).

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).

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 Utesov Jazz Orchestra

Created in 1929 under the name "Thea-jazz", the first performance of which took place on 8 March on the stage of the Leningrad Maly Opera Theatre. From 1934 it was called simply the Jazz Orchestra of L. Utyosov, in 1940 it received the status of the State Jazz Orchestra of the RSFSR, from 1947 - the State Variety Orchestra of the RSFSR.

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.

Vazgen Vartanyan

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...

Aida Vedishcheva

Aida Semyonovna Vedishcheva (Russian: Аида Семёновна Ведищева, born Ida Solomonovna Weiss, Russian: Ида Соломоновна Вайс, 10 June 1941) is a Soviet and American singer. In the 1960s, she contributed songs to several film soundtracks, including the timeless hits: "Song About Bears", "Help Me", "Forest Deer", "She-bear's Lullaby", "I'll Wait for You", "Chunga-Changa", "Blue Water", "The First Spring" and many others.

Giuseppe Verdi

Giuseppe Fortunino Francesco Verdi (9 or 10 October 1813 – 27 January 1901) was an Italian Romantic composer primarily known for his operas. He is considered, with Richard Wagner, the preëminent opera composer of the 19th century. Verdi dominated the Italian opera scene after the eras of Bellini, Donizetti and Rossini. His works are frequently performed in opera houses throughout the world and, transcending the boundaries of the genre, some of his themes have long since taken root in popu...

Galina Vishnevskaya

Galina Pavlovna Vishnevskaya (née Ivanova, Russian: Гали́на Па́вловна Вишне́вская; 25 October 1926 – 11 December 2012) was a Russian soprano opera singer and recitalist who was named a People's Artist of the USSR in 1966. She was the wife of cellist Mstislav Rostropovich, and mother to their two daughters, Olga and Elena Rostropovich.

Antonio Vivaldi

Анто́нио Лучо (Лучио, Лючио) Вива́льди (итал. Antonio Lucio Vivaldi; 4 марта 1678, Венеция — 28 июля 1741, Вена) — итальянский композитор, скрипач-виртуоз, педагог, дирижёр, католический священник. Вивальди считается одним из крупнейших представителей итальянского скрипичного искусства XVIII века, при жизни получил широкое признание во всей Европе. Мастер ансамблево-оркестрового концерта — ...