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  • 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...
  • The Saint Petersburg Philharmonic Orchestra (Russian: Симфонический оркестр Санкт-Петербургской филармонии, Symphonic Orchestra of the Saint Petersburg Philharmonia) was formed in 1882, and is Russia's oldest symphony orchestra.  The Saint Petersburg Philharmonic Orchestra was initially known as the Imperial Music Choir, and performed for the Court of Alexander III of Russia. By the 1900s, the Orchestra started to give public performances at the Philharmonia and elsewhere in Russia. ...
  • Государственный камерный оркестр «Виртуозы Москвы» — советский и российский оркестр. Создан в 1979 году. Основателем, главным дирижером, солистом и бессменным художественным руководителем оркестра является Владимир Спиваков. Практически с начала основания, начав выступления на международных фестивалях, оркестр получил мировое признание. В 1982 году оркестр получил официальное название «Государственный камерный оркестр Министерства культуры СССР „Виртуозы Москвы“»...
  • Инструментальный ансамбль «Мелодия» — эстрадно-джазовый оркестр, основанный в 1973 году при Всесоюзной фирме грамзаписи «Мелодия» Георгием Гараняном и Владимиром Чижиком (эмигрировал из СССР в 1974 году).
  • Госуда́рственный стру́нный кварте́т и́мени Бетхо́вена — один из старейших и наиболее авторитетных камерных ансамблей классической музыки в СССР. Был основан в 1923 году выпускниками Московской консерватории скрипачами Дмитрием Цыгановым и Василием Ширинским, альтистом Вадимом Борисовским и виолончелистом Сергеем Ширинским. Имя Бетховена получил в 1931 году, до этого выступал как Квартет Московской консерватории. 24 октября 1923 года квартет впервые в СССР успешно исполнил Увертюру на евре...
  • The Borodin Quartet is a string quartet that was founded in 1945 in the then Soviet Union. It is one of the world's longest-lasting string quartets, having marked its 70th-anniversary season in 2015. The quartet was one of the Soviet Union's best known in the West during the Cold War era, through recordings as well as concert performances in the United States and Europe.  The quartet had a close relationship with composer Dmitri Shostakovich, who personally consulted them on each ...
  • 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...
  • Полина Олеговна Осетинская (род. 11 декабря 1975, Москва) — советская и российская пианистка. Лауреат молодёжной премии «Триумф».
  • 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).
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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. 
  • 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...
  • 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.
  • Mikhail Vasilievich Pletnev (Russian: Михаи́л Васи́льевич Плетнёв, Mikha'il Vas'ilevič Plet'nëv; born 14 April 1957) is a Russian concert pianist, conductor, and composer.
  •      Aleksey Nikolayevich Pleshcheyev (Russian: Алексе́й Никола́евич Плеще́ев; 4 December [O.S. 22 November] 1825 – 8 October 1893) was a radical Russian poet of the 19th century, one of the Petrashevsky Circle. Pleshcheyev's first book of poetry, published in 1846, made him famous: "Step forward! Without fear or doubt..." became widely known as "a Russian La Marseillaise" (and was sung as such, using French melody), "Friends' calling..." and "We're brothers ...
  • Mikhail Spartakovich Plyatskovsky (Russian: Михаи́л Спарта́кович Пляцко́вский; 1935–1991) was a Soviet songwriter and playwright.
  • Viktoria Valentinovna Postnikova (born 12 January 1944) is a Russian pianist. Postnikova was born in Moscow into a family of musicians. She entered the Central Music School of the Moscow Conservatory at age six, studying with E.B. Musaelian. She graduated in 1967, having studied there and in postgraduate courses with Professor Yakov Flier. In 1965 she won a prize at the International Chopin Piano Competition. She subsequently also won prizes at the Leeds International Piano Competitio...
  • Pojuschie Gitary (Russian: Поющие гитары [pɐˈjʉɕːɪɪ ɡʲɪˈtarɨ], The Singing Guitars) are among the most popular bands of Russia and the former USSR. They were the Soviet Union's first rock band to reach a phenomenal rate of success and popularity in the Soviet Union, Eastern Europe and in other countries. The band was founded in 1966 in Petersburg by Vladimir Vasilyev - (guitar, vocal) and Evgeny Bronevitsky (vocal, bass guitar) and other pro-western Russian musicians. Initially inspired by th...
  • Влади́мир Влади́мирович Пресняко́в (также известен как Владимир Пресняков-младший, род. 29 марта 1968, Свердловск, сейчас Екатеринбург) — советский и российский эстрадный певец, музыкант-клавишник, композитор, аранжировщик, танцор брейк-данса и актёр.
  • Влади́мир Петро́вич Пресняко́в (род. 26 марта 1946, Ходоров, Львовская область) — российский композитор, аранжировщик, саксофонист. Заслуженный артист России (1996). Заслуженный деятель искусств России (2007). Муж солистки ВИА «Самоцветы» Елены Петровны Пресняковой, отец певца Владимира Преснякова-младшего, дед актёра и певца Никиты Преснякова.
  • Айлен Притчин родился в 1987 году в Ленинграде (Санкт-Петербург). Окончил Среднюю специальную музыкальную школу при Санкт-Петербургской консерватории (класс Елены Зайцевой) и Московскую государственную консерваторию (класс профессора Эдуарда Грача). В настоящее время – ассистент Эдуарда Грача. Победитель Международного юношеского конкурса имени П. И. Чайковского (Япония, 2004), международных конкурсов имени А. И. Ямпольского в Москве (2006), имени Панчо Владигерова в Шумене (Болгария, 200...
  • Gennady Provatorov (Проваторов, Геннадий Пантелеймонович) (Moscow, 11 March 1929 - Minsk 4 May 2010) was a Soviet and Belarusian conductor.  Gennady Provatorov was invited to Minsk when he was nearly 60 to work at the Minsk Philharmonic and National Opera and Ballet Theatre of Belarus. He was a Belarus State Award holder and a National Artist of RSFSR.
  •      Sergei Sergeyevich Prokofiev (Russian: Сергей Сергеевич Прокофьев, tr. Sergej Sergeevič Prokof'ev; 15/27 April 1891 – 5 March 1953) was a Russian composer, pianist and conductor. As the creator of acknowledged masterpieces across numerous musical genres, he is regarded as one of the major composers of the 20th century. His works include such widely heard works as the March from The Love for Three Oranges, the suite Lieutenant Kijé, the ballet Romeo and Juliet – from which "Dance of t...
  • Alla Borisovna Pugacheva (Russian: Алла Борисовна Пугачёва; sometimes transcribed to English as Pugachova, Russian pronunciation: [pʊɡɐˈtɕɵvə]; born 15 April 1949), is а Soviet and Russian musical performer. Her career started in 1965 and continues to this day, even though she does not give live performances anymore. For her "clear mezzo-soprano and a full display of sincere emotions", she enjoys an iconic status across the former Soviet Union as the most successful Soviet performer in te...
  • Francis Jean Marcel Poulenc (French: [fʁɑ̃sis ʒɑ̃ maʁsɛl pulɛ̃k]; 7 January 1899 – 30 January 1963) was a French composer and pianist. His compositions include songs, solo piano works, chamber music, choral pieces, operas, ballets, and orchestral concert music. Among the best-known are the piano suite Trois mouvements perpétuels (1919), the ballet Les biches (1923), the Concert champêtre (1928) for harpsichord and orchestra, the Organ Concerto (1938), the opera Dialogues des Carmélites (1...
  • Giacomo Antonio Domenico Michele Secondo Maria Puccini (UK: /pʊˈtʃiːni/ puu-CHEE-nee, US: /puːˈ-/ poo-, Italian: [ˈdʒaːkomo putˈtʃiːni]; 22 December 1858 – 29 November 1924) was an Italian opera composer who has been called "the greatest composer of Italian opera after Verdi".  Puccini's early work was rooted in traditional late-19th-century romantic Italian opera. Later, he successfully developed his work in the realistic verismo style, of which he became one of the leading exponents...
  • Алекса́ндр Серге́евич Пу́шкин (26 мая [6 июня] 1799, Москва — 29 января [10 февраля] 1837, Санкт-Петербург) — русский поэт, драматург и прозаик, заложивший основы русского реалистического направления, критик и теоретик литературы, историк, публицист; один из самых авторитетных литературных деятелей первой трети XIX века. Ещё при жизни Пушкина сложилась его репутация величайшего национального русского поэта. Пушкин рассматривается как основоположник современного русского литературного я...
  •      Francesco Maria Piave (18 May 1810 – 5 March 1876) was an Italian opera librettist who was born in Murano in the lagoon of Venice, during the brief Napoleonic Kingdom of Italy. His career spanned over twenty years working with many of the significant composers of his day, including Giovanni Pacini (four librettos), Saverio Mercadante (at least one), Federico Ricci, and even one for Michael Balfe. He is most well known as Giuseppe Verdi's librettist, for whom he was to write 10 librettos, ...
  • Joseph Maurice Ravel French: [ʒɔzɛf mɔʁis ʁavɛl]; 7 March 1875 – 28 December 1937) was a French composer, pianist and conductor. He is often associated with impressionism along with his elder contemporary Claude Debussy, although both composers rejected the term. In the 1920s and 1930s Ravel was internationally regarded as France's greatest living composer. Born to a music-loving family, Ravel attended France's premier music college, the Paris Conservatoire; he was not well regarded b...
  • Большой симфонический оркестр имени П. И. Чайковского (сокращённо — БСО), в 1930-1958 — Оркестр Всесоюзного радиокомитета (сокращённо Оркестр ВРК), в 1958-91 — Большой симфонический оркестр Всесоюзного радио и Центрального телевидения), современное название с 1993 года — российский симфонический оркестр.
  • Алекса́ндр Алекса́ндрович Рамм (род. 9 мая 1988, Владивосток) — российский виолончелист.
  • Jean-Philippe Rameau (French: [ʒɑ̃filip ʁamo]; 25 September 1683 – 12 September 1764) was one of the most important French composers and music theorists of the 18th century. He replaced Jean-Baptiste Lully as the dominant composer of French opera and is also considered the leading French composer for the harpsichord of his time, alongside François Couperin.  Little is known about Rameau's early years. It was not until the 1720s that he won fame as a major theorist of music with his Tr...
  • Даниил Максимович Ратгауз (25 января [6 февраля] 1868, Харьков — 6 июня 1937, Прага) — русский поэт, автор слов нескольких известных романсов.
  • Stahan Mamadzhanovich Rakhimov (Uzbek: Staxan Rahimov, Russian: Стаха́н Мамаджа́нович Рахи́мов; December 17, 1937 – March 12, 2021) was a Soviet Uzbek and Russian singer, People's Artist of Russia (2002).
  •      Sergei Vasilievich Rachmaninoff (Russian: Серге́й Васи́льевич Рахма́ниновъ; Russian pronunciation: [sʲɪrˈɡʲej rɐxˈmanʲɪnəf]; 1 April [O.S. 20 March] 1873 – 28 March 1943) was a Russian composer, pianist, and conductor. Rachmaninoff is widely considered as one of the finest pianists of his day and, as a composer, one of the last great representatives of Romanticism in Russian classical music. Early influences of Tchaikovsky, Rimsky-Korsakov, and other Russian composers gave way to a personal...
  • Ilya Rahmielevich Reznik (Russian: Илья Pахмильeвич Peзник; born April 4, 1938, Leningrad) is a Russian poet and songwriter, People's Artist of Russia (2003). Honorary member of the Russian Academy of Arts. People's Artist of Ukraine (2013).
  • Nikolai Andreyevich Rimsky-Korsakov (Russian: Николай Андреевич Римский-Корсаков, IPA: [nʲɪkəˈlaj ɐnˈdrʲejɪvʲɪtɕ ˈrʲimskʲɪj ˈkorsəkəf]; 18 March [O.S. 6 March] 1844 – 21 June [O.S. 8 June] 1908) was a Russian composer, and a member of the group of composers known as The Five. He was a master of orchestration. His best-known orchestral compositions—Capriccio Espagnol, the Russian Easter Festival Overture, and the symphonic suite Scheherazade—are staples of the classical music repertoire, along...
  • Святосла́в Теофи́лович Ри́хтер (7 (20) марта 1915, Житомир — 1 августа 1997, Москва) — советский российский пианист. Герой Социалистического Труда (1975). Народный артист СССР (1961). Лауреат Ленинской (1961), Сталинской (1950), Государственной премии РСФСР им. М. Глинки (1987) и Государственной премии Российской Федерации (1996).  Один из крупнейших пианистов XX века, чья вир...
  • Gennady Nikolayevich Rozhdestvensky, CBE (Russian: Генна́дий Никола́евич Рожде́ственский; 4 May 1931 – 16 June 2018) was a Soviet and Russian conductor, People's Artist of the USSR (1976), and Hero of Socialist Labour (1990).
  • Robert Ivanovich Rozhdestvensky (Russian: Ро́берт Ива́нович Рожде́ственский; 20 June 1932 – 19 August 1994) was a Soviet-Russian poet and Songwriter who broke with socialist realism in the 1950s–1960s during the Khrushchev Thaw and, along with such poets as Andrey Voznesensky, Yevgeny Yevtushenko, and Bella Akhmadulina, pioneered a newer, fresher, and freer style of poetry in the Soviet Union.
  • Alexander Yakovlevich Rosenbaum PAR (Russian: Александр Яковлевич Розенбаум, Aleksandr Jakovlevič Rozyenbaum) (born September 13, 1951) is a Russian bard from Saint Petersburg. He is best known as an interpreter of the blatnaya pesnya (criminal song) genre. Modern singers in this genre, such as Mikhail Shufutinsky often sing Rosenbaum's songs. Graduated from the First Pavlov State Medical University of St. Peterburg in 1974, and worked in the medical field for four years. His musical ...
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