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  • Édouard-Victoire-Antoine Lalo (27 January 1823 – 22 April 1892) was a French composer. His most celebrated piece is easily Symphonie espagnole, which consists of five movements and remains a popular work in the standard repertoire for violin and orchestra.
  • Vasily Semyonovich Lanovoy (Russian: Василий Семёнович Лановой; (16 January 1934 – 28 January 2021) was a Soviet and Russian actor who worked in the Vakhtangov Theatre, Moscow. He was also known as the President of Artek Festival of Films for Children. Lanovoy's honours include the KGB Prize, the Lenin Prize, and the title of People's Artist of the USSR. In 2019, he received the title Hero of Labour of the Russian Federation.
  • Yury Davidovich Levitansky (Russian: Ю́рий Дави́дович Левита́нский; January 22, 1922, Kozelets, Chernigov Oblast, Ukrainian SSR — January 25, 1996, Moscow, Russia) was a poet and translator, a master of lyrical parody of genres, and Laureate of the State Prize of the Russian Federation in the field of literature and art in 1994.  Levitansky fought in the Great Patriotic War. Afterwards, his first collection of poems was released in 1948 in Irkutsk. In the years 1955-1957 Levitansky st...
  • Родился в 1971 году в Минске, окончил Санкт-Петербургскую консерваторию по классу хорового дирижирования и по классу оперно-симфонического дирижирования. Ведет преподавательскую деятельность в Музыкальном колледже имени Римского-Корсакова. Сотрудничал с ведущими оркестрами России, в том числе с Госоркестром России имени Е. Ф. Светланова, Российским национальным оркестром, Академическим симфоническим оркестром Санкт-Петербургской филармонии и другими. Постоянно сотрудничает с оркестром и хором Mu...
  • Leysya, Pesnya (Russian: Лейся, песня, literally "Flow, song") was a Soviet Vocal and instrumental ensemble active during the 1970s and 1980s. It was founded in 1975 by Valery Seleznev in the city of Kemerovo. Some of the earliest singers in Leysya, Pesnya included Mikhail Shufutinsky, Vlad Andrianov, Vladimir Efimenko, Igor Ivanov and Yuri Zakharov. In 1980, Vitaly Cretu took over as the director, and several of the original members left while new ones took over. The ...
  • Sergei Yakovlevich Lemeshev (Russian: Серге́й Я́ковлевич Ле́мешев, born July 10 [O.S. June 27] 1902, Staroye Knyazevo, Tver Governorate – died June 26, 1977, Moscow) was one of the most well-known and beloved Russian operatic lyric tenors.
  • Valery Yakovlevich Leontiev (Russian: Валерий Яковлевич Леонтьев; born 19 March 1949) is a Soviet and Russian pop singer, sometimes songwriter and actor whose popularity peaked in the early 1980s. He was titled a People's Artist of Russia in 1996. He is known as one of the most prominent artists of Soviet and Russian music. Over the course of his decades-long career, he has recorded more than 30 albums, many of which sold millions of copies. The media refers to Leontiev as a megastar and a le...
  • Mikhail Yuryevich Lermontov (/ˈlɛərməntɔːf, -tɒf/;[1] Russian: Михаил Юрьевич Лермонтов, IPA: [mʲɪxɐˈil ˈjurʲjɪvʲɪtɕ ˈlʲɛrməntəf]; October 15 [O.S. October 3] 1814 – July 27 [O.S. July 15] 1841) was a Russian Romantic writer, poet and painter, sometimes called "the poet of the Caucasus", the most important Russian poet after Alexander Pushkin's death in 1837 and the greatest figure in Russian Romanticism. His influence on later Russian literature is still felt in modern times, not only throug...
  • Nikolai Semyonovich Leskov (Russian: Никола́й Семёнович Леско́в; 16 February [O.S. 4 February] 1831 – 5 March [O.S. 21 February] 1895) was a Russian novelist, short-story writer, playwright, and journalist, who also wrote under the pseudonym M. Stebnitsky. Praised for his unique writing style and innovative experiments in form, and held in high esteem by Leo Tolstoy, Anton Chekhov and Maxim Gorky among others, Leskov is credited with creating a comprehensive picture of contemporary Russia...
  • Lev Valerianovich Leshchenko (Russian: Лев Валерьянович Лещенко; born 1 February 1942), is a Russian singer, who is best known for his rendition of "Den Pobedy" and the 1980 Summer Olympics closing ceremony theme song "Do svidanja, Moskva".
  • Pyotr Konstantinovich Leshchenko (Russian: Пётр Константинович Лещенко; 2 June 1898 – 16 July 1954), a singer in the Russian Empire, Romania and later the Soviet Union, is universally considered "the King of Russian Tango" and specifically known for his rendition of "Serdtse"—a tango, sung unusually not in Spanish but in Russian.
  • Ференц (Франц) Лист (венг. Liszt Ferenc, нем. Franz Liszt; 22 октября 1811, Доборьян, Венгрия — 31 июля 1886, Байройт, Германская империя) — венгеро-немецкий композитор, пианист, педагог, дирижёр, публицист, крупный представитель музыкального романтизма. Лист был одним из величайших пианистов XIX века. Его эпоха была расцветом концертного пианизма, Лист был в авангарде этого процесса, ...
  • Марк Давыдович Лубоцкий (род. 18 мая 1931, Ленинград) — советский скрипач, музыкальный педагог, писатель, мемуарист.
  • Nikolai Lvovich Lugansky (Russian: Никола́й Льво́вич Луга́нский; born 26 April 1972) is a Russian pianist
  • Oleg Leonidovich Lundstrem (also spelled Lundstroem, Lundström, Russian: Олег Леонидович Лундстрем; April 2, 1916, Chita — October 14, 2005, Korolyov, Moscow Oblast) was a Soviet and Russian jazz composer and conductor of the Oleg Lundstrem Orchestra, one of the earliest officially recognized jazz bands in the Soviet Union (full official name: The State Oleg Lundstrem Chamber Orchestra of Jazz Music, Russian: Государственный камерный оркестр джазовой музыки под управлением Олега Лундстрем...
  • Sergei Mikhailovich Lyapunov (or Liapunov; Russian: Серге́й Миха́йлович Ляпуно́в, Russian pronunciation: [sʲɪrˈɡʲej mʲɪˈxajləvʲɪtɕ lʲɪpʊˈnof]; 30 November [O.S. 18 November] 1859 – 8 November 1924) was a Russian composer and pianist.
  • Muslim Magometovich Magomayev (Azerbaijani: Müslüm Məhəmməd oğlu Maqomayev, 17 August 1942 – 25 October 2008), dubbed the "King of Songs" and the "Soviet Sinatra" was a Soviet Azerbajiani baritone operatic pop singer. He achieved iconic status in Russia and the post-Soviet countries for his vocal talent and charisma.
  • Alexei Sergeevich Mazhukov (February 10, 1936 - June 28, 2011) was a Soviet composer, Honored Art Worker of the Russian Federation (1996). He was born on February 10, 1936 in the village of Sumerlya, Chuvash ASSR, not far from the working settlement of the same name, which became a town in 1937. He received his musical education at the Cheboksary Music College (1955), the Saratov Conservatory (1959) and the Moscow Conservatory (1962, composition class of Yuri Shaporin). He worked as a ...
  • 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.  ...
  •      Apollon Nikolayevich Maykov (or Maikov) (Russian: Аполло́н Никола́евич Ма́йков, June 4 [O.S. May 23] 1821, Moscow – March 20 [O.S. March 8] 1897, Saint Petersburg) was a Russian poet, best known for his lyric verse, showcasing images of Russian villages, nature, and Russian history. His love for ancient Greece and Rome, which he studied for much of his life, is also reflected in his works. Maykov spent four years translating the epic The Tale of Igor's Campaign (1870) into the modern Russ...
  •      John Henry Mackay (6 February 1864 – 16 May 1933) was an individualist anarchist, thinker and writer. Born in Scotland and raised in Germany, Mackay was the author of Die Anarchisten (The Anarchists, 1891) and Der Freiheitsucher (The Searcher for Freedom, 1921). Mackay was published in the United States in his friend Benjamin Tucker's magazine, Liberty.
  • Gustav Mahler (German: [ˈmaːlɐ]; 7 July 1860 – 18 May 1911) was an Austro-Bohemian Romantic composer, and one of the leading conductors of his generation. As a composer he acted as a bridge between the 19th century Austro-German tradition and the modernism of the early 20th century. While in his lifetime his status as a conductor was established beyond question, his own music gained wide popularity only after periods of relative neglect, which included a ban on its performance in much of ...
  • Малкус Александр Маркович — пианист-солист, лауреат международных конкурсов, преподаватель Московской консерватории. Гастролировал во многих странах: Чехии, Словакии, Болгарии, Швеции, Австрии, Италии, Франции, Германии, Великобритании, Японии. Партнерами А. Малкуса были известные музыканты: дирижеры Н. Рахлин, А, Дмитриев, скрипачка Т. Гринденко, виолончелисты М. Чайковская, И. Гаврыш. Важное место в исполнительской деятельности Александра Малкуса занимает сотрудничество с выдающимся ком...
  • Fuat Mansurov (Tatar: Фуат Шакир улы Мансуров, Russian: Мансуров, Фуат Шакирович) (January 10, 1928 – June 12, 2010) was a Soviet and Russian conductor.  Mansurov was born on 10 January 1928 in Almaty, Kazakhstan. He graduated from Al-Farabi University in Almaty, Kazakhstan in 1950 as a mathematician and then became a faculty member of the School of Math and Sciences there. In 1951 Mansurov graduated from Kurmangazy Kazakh National Conservatory in Almaty, as a conductor. While at ...
  • Yevgeniy Grigorievich Martynov (Russian: Евге́ний Григо́рьевич Марты́нов; May 22, 1948 – September 3, 1990) was a Soviet pop singer and composer, the older brother of the composer Yuri Martynov.
  • Masleev was born on May 4, 1988 in Ulan-Ude, a Siberian city between Lake Baikal and the Mongolian border. He was educated at the Moscow Conservatory in the class of Professor Mikhail Petukhov, and at the Lake Como International Piano Academy in Italy.
  • Aleksei (Albert) Dmitryevich Maslennikov (Russian: Алексей (Альберт) Дмитриевич Масленников; September 9, 1929 – November 30, 2016) was a Russian tenor. Maslennikov was born in Novocherkassk, Russia. In 1953 he studied at the Moscow Conservatory and in 1955 became a member of the Bolshoi Theatre where he remained into the late 1990s. His vocal style is often compared to that of the German tenor Gerhard Stolze as both men shared a likeness in singing Sprechgesang.
  • Mikhail Lvovich Matusovsky (Russian: Михаил Львович Матусовский; 23 July 1915, Luhansk, Yekaterinoslav Governorate – 16 July 1990, Moscow) was a Soviet poet, a winner of the USSR State Prize (1977).
  • Юрий Владимирович Медяник (род. 21 февраля 1983, Амвросиевка, Донецкая область, УССР) — российский дирижёр, музыкант-мультиинструменталист и народный артист России. Лауреат нескольких международных конкурсов.
  •      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...
  • 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, ...
  • 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).
  • 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".
  • 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.
  • 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.
  •      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 ...
  • 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.
  • 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...
  •      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...
  • 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.
  • 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...
  • 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...
  • 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.
  • 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).
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