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George Frideric Handel

George Frideric (or Frederick) Handel (/ˈhændəl/; born Georg Friederich Händel [ˈɡeːɔʁk ˈfʁiːdʁɪç ˈhɛndl̩]; 23 February 1685 (O.S.) [(N.S.) 5 March] – 14 April 1759) was a German, later British, Baroque composer who spent the bulk of his career in London, becoming well known for his operas, oratorios, anthems, concerti grossi and organ concertos. Handel received important training in Halle and worked as a composer in Hamburg and Italy before settling in London in 1712; he became a natural...

Joseph Haydn

Franz Joseph Haydn (/ˈhaɪdən/; German: [ˈfʁants ˈjoːzɛf ˈhaɪdn̩] (listen); 31 March 1732 – 31 May 1809) was an Austrian composer of the Classical period. He was instrumental in the development of chamber music such as the piano trio. His contributions to musical form have earned him the epithets "Father of the Symphony" and "Father of the String Quartet". Haydn spent much of his career as a court musician for the wealthy Esterházy family at their remote estate. Until the later part o...

Heinrich Heine

Christian Johann Heinrich Heine (13 December 1797 – 17 February 1856) was a German poet, journalist, essayist, and literary critic. He is best known outside Germany for his early lyric poetry, which was set to music in the form of Lieder (art songs) by composers such as Robert Schumann and Franz Schubert. Heine's later verse and prose are distinguished by their satirical wit and irony. His radical political views led to many of his works being banned by German authorities. Heine spent the...

Paul Hindemith

Paul Hindemith (/ˈhɪndəmɪt/; 16 November 1895 – 28 December 1963) was a prolific German composer, violist, violinist, teacher and conductor. In the 1920s, he became a major advocate of the Neue Sachlichkeit (new objectivity) style of music. Notable compositions include his song cycle Das Marienleben (1923), Der Schwanendreher for viola and orchestra (1935), and opera Mathis der Maler (1938). Hindemith's most popular work, both on record and in the concert hall, is likely the Symphonic Metamor...

Victor Hugo

Victor Marie Hugo (26 February 1802 – 22 May 1885) was a French poet, novelist, and dramatist of the Romantic movement. He is considered one of the greatest and best known French writers. In France, Hugo's literary fame comes first from his poetry but also rests upon his novels and his dramatic achievements. Among many volumes of poetry, Les Contemplations and La Légende des siècles stand particularly high in critical esteem. Outside France, his best-known works are the acclaimed novels L...

Alexander Iokheles

Александр Львович Иохелес (27 февраля [11 марта] 1912, Москва — 19 июня 1978, там же) — советский пианист и музыкальный педагог. Брат архитектора Евгения Иохелеса.

Avetik Isahakyan

Avetik Isahakyan (Armenian: Ավետիք Իսահակյան; October 30, 1875 – October 17, 1957) was a prominent Armenian lyric poet, writer and public activist.

Liana Isakadze

Liana Isakadze (Georgian: ლიანა ისაკაძე, Russian: Лиана Александровна Исакадзе, German: Liana Isakadse) (born August 2, 1946) is a Georgian violinist.

Nina Isakova

Born Oct. 8, 1928, in Se-bezh, present-day Pskov Oblast. Soviet Russian mezzo-soprano. People’s Artist of the RSFSR (1969). Isakova was a partisan during the Great Patriotic War of 1941–45. She later was a student in F. S. Petrova’s class at the Moscow Conservatory. Upon graduation in 1958, she was accepted into the company of the K. S. Stanislavsky and V. I. Nemirovich-Danchenko Music Theater. Her voice is rich and has a deep timbre. It is particularly beautiful in the lower contralto re...

Mikhail Isakovsky

Mikhail Vasil'evich Isakovsky (Russian: Михаи́л Васи́льевич Исако́вский) (19 January [O.S. 7 January] 1900 – 20 July 1973) was a Russian poet. A communist from an early age, he wrote many poems and songs in praise of the Soviet Union, but his most famous song is doubtless the rather apolitical Katyusha.

Iveria

Iveria (Georgian: ივერია) was a Georgian music ensemble founded in 1968 that gained popularity in the Soviet Union in the 1970s. The group's art director was Alexander Basilaia. The group sang both Georgian folk and contemporary songs, wrote and performed Argo and Jays Wedding musicals, and released 6 vinyl albums on Melodiya label.

André Jolivet

André Jolivet (pronounced [ɑ̃.dʁe ʒo.li.vɛ], 8 August 1905 – 20 December 1974) was a French composer. Known for his devotion to French culture and musical thought, Jolivet drew on his interest in acoustics and atonality, as well as both ancient and modern musical influences, particularly on instruments used in ancient times. He composed in a wide variety of forms for many different types of ensembles.

Oleg Kagan

This article does not cite any sources. Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. Find sources: "Oleg Kagan" – news · newspapers · books · scholar · JSTOR (February 2014) (Learn how and when to remove this template message) Oleg Kagan (right) meeting Mrs. Aino Sibelius at Ainola, Finland, 1965, on the 100th birthday of Jean Sibelius. Oleg Moiseyevich Kagan (Russian: Оле́г Моисе́евич Кага́н; 22 Novem...

Murad Kajlayev

Murad Magomedovich Kajlayev (Russian: Мурад Магомедович Кажлаев; 15 January 1931 – 23 December 2023) was a Russian composer and conductor. He was a People's Artist of the USSR (1981), People's Artist of the Republic of Dagestan (2016), and laureate of international premiums and contests. He was also Artistic Director and Chief Conductor of the Great Academic Concert Orchestra named after Silantyev, a professor and academician at Russian Academy of Natural Sciences.

Anatoly Kamyshev

Камышев Анатолий Иванович (1952-) Лауреат Всесоюзного конкурса (Минск,1979,2 премия), в 1971 окончил музыкальное училище им. Ипполитова-Иванова (класс Г.Гусева), в 1976 - Московскую консерваторию (класс В.Петрова), в 1975 солист Московского симфонического оркестра, в 1976-1981- симфонического оркестра ВР и ЦТ, с 1981 – симфонического оркестра Министерства культуры СССР, преподаватель музыкально-педагогического института им. Ипполитова-Иванова

Nikolay Karamzin

Nikolay Mikhailovich Karamzin (Russian: Николай Михайлович Карамзин, IPA: [nʲɪkɐˈlaj mʲɪˈxajləvʲɪtɕ kərɐmˈzʲin]; 12 December [O.S. 1 December] 1766 – 3 June [O.S. 22 May] 1826) was a Russian writer, poet, historian and critic. He is best remembered for his History of the Russian State, a 12-volume national history.

Nikolai Karetnikov

Nikolai Nikolayevich Karetnikov (Russian: Николáй Николáeвич Карéтников; June 28, 1930 in Moscow – October 9, 1994 in Moscow) was a Russian composer of the so-called Underground – alternative or nonconformist group in Soviet music.

Rimma Kazakova

Rimma Fyodorovna Kazakova (27 January 1932, Sevastopol, Crimean ASSR - 19 May 2008, Yudino, Moscow Oblast) was a Soviet and Russian poetess, translator, and author of many popular songs of the Soviet period and the 1990s. Her father, Fyodor Lazarevich Kazakov (1899-1967), was a military officer, and her mother, Sofia Alexandrovna Shulman (1905-1987), worked as a secretary-machinist. The name given by her parents means "Revolution, Electrification, World October". At the age of 20 she to...

Aram Khachaturian

Aram Il'yich Khachaturian (/ˈærəm ˌkɑːtʃəˈtʊəriən/; Russian: Арам Ильич Хачатурян, IPA: [ɐˈram ɪˈlʲjit͡ɕ xət͡ɕɪtʊˈrʲan]; Armenian: Արամ Խաչատրյան, Aram Xačatryan; pronounced [ɑˈɾɑm χɑt͡ʃʰɑt(ə)ɾˈjɑn]; 6 June [O.S. 24 May] 1903 – 1 May 1978) was a Soviet Armenian composer and conductor. He is considered one of the leading Soviet composers. Born and raised in Tbilisi, the multicultural capital of Georgia, Khachaturian moved to Moscow in 1921 following the Sovietization of the Caucasus. Wi...

Uladzislau Khandohi

Владислав Хандогий родился в 2001 году в Минске. Обучался в Республиканской гимназии-колледже при Белорусской государственной академии музыки, затем в Центральной музыкальной школе при Московской государственной консерватории имени П. И. Чайковского в классе профессора Наталии Трулль, у которой с 2020 года продолжает обучение в консерватории. Победитель \ Международного конкурса юношеского исполнительского искусства имени Г. В. Свиридова в Санкт-Петербурге (2013), П Международного конкурса ю...

Boris Khaykin

Boris Emmanuilovich Khaykin (Russian: Борис Эммануилович Хайкин; Belarusian: Барыс Эмануілавіч Хайкін; 26 October [O.S. 13 October] 1904 – 10 May 1978) was a Russian Jewish conductor who was named a People's Artist of the USSR in 1972. Khaykin was born in Minsk, then part of the Russian Empire (and nowadays the capital of Belarus). He studied at the Moscow Conservatory under Nikolai Malko and Konstantin Saradzhev. He was artistic director of the Little Leningrad Opera Theatre in 1936-...

Eduard Khil

Eduard Anatolyevich Khil (Russian: Эдуа́рд Анато́льевич Хиль, IPA: [ɨdʊˈart ɐnɐˈtolʲjɪvʲɪtɕ ˈxʲilʲ] (often anglicized as Edward Hill); 4 September 1934 – 4 June 2012) was a Soviet-Russian baritone singer and a recipient of the People's Artist of the RSFSR. Khil became known to international audiences in 2010, when a 1976 recording of him singing a non-lexical vocable version of the song "I Am Very Glad, as I'm Finally Returning Back Home" (Russian: Я о́чень рад, ведь я, наконе́ц, возвраща́юсь...

Vadym Kholodenko

Vadym Kholodenko (born 1986, in Kyiv) is a Ukrainian pianist, and winner of the gold medal at the Fourteenth Van Cliburn International Piano Competition, who captured the attention of jury, audience, and critics alike for "mesmerizing and exhilarating" performances that brought the crowd to their feet, "[cheering] him like a rock star". Also taking home prizes for best performance of the piano quintet and best performance of a commissioned work, Vadym highlighted the Final Round with...

Mikhail Khomitser

Михаил Эммануилович Хо́мицер (30 июня 1935, Харьков — 2 ноября 2002, Ришон-ле-Цион, Израиль) — советский, российский и израильский виолончелист, педагог, народный артист РСФСР. Михаил Эммануилович Хомицер родился 30 июня 1935 года в Харькове. В 1958 году окончил Московскую консерваторию (класс виолончели С. Н. Кнушевицкого). В 1961 году окончил аспирантуру у него же. С 1957 года был солистом Московской филармонии, концертировал...

Tikhon Khrennikov

Tikhon Nikolayevich Khrennikov (Russian: Тихон Николаевич Хренников; 10 June [O.S. 28 May] 1913 – 14 August 2007) was a Russian and Soviet composer, pianist, and leader of the Union of Soviet Composers, who was also known for his political activities. He wrote three symphonies, four piano concertos, two violin concertos, two cello concertos, operas, operettas, ballets, chamber music, incidental music and film music. During the 1930s, Khrennikov was already being hailed as a leading o...

Nastasya Khrushcheva

Nastasya Alekseevna Khrushcheva (born 24 May 1987, Leningrad) is a Russian composer, pianist and playwright. Composer, pianist, musicologist. Associate Professor of the Department of History of Foreign Music at the St Petersburg Conservatoire. Member of the Composers' Union, candidate of art history. Winner of the St Petersburg Government Youth Prize (2012). Winner of the Pythian Games composition competition (Interesting Cinema project, 2014). Winner of the St Petersburg Theatre ...

Vakhtang Kikabidze

Vakhtang Kikabidze (Georgian: ვახტანგ კიკაბიძე; 19 July 1938 – 15 January 2023), also known as Buba (Georgian: ბუბა) was a Soviet and Georgian singer, actor, screenwriter, producer, composer and politician who served in the Parliament of Georgia from 2020 until his death.

Evgeny Kissin*

Evgeny Igorevich Kissin (Russian: Евге́ний И́горевич Ки́син, romanized: Evgénij Ígorevič Kísin; born 10 October 1971) is a Russian classical pianist. He has been a British citizen since 2002 and an Israeli citizen since 2013. He first came to international fame as a child prodigy. He has a wide repertoire and is especially known for his interpretations of the works of the Romantic era, particularly those of Ludwig van Beethoven, Franz Schubert, Frédéric Chopin, Robert Schumann, Franz Lis...

Alexander Klevitsky

Алекса́ндр Леони́дович Клеви́цкий (род. 1954) — российский композитор и дирижёр, продюсер. Заслуженный деятель искусств Российской Федерации (2004), художественный руководитель и главный дирижёр Академического Большого концертного оркестра им. Ю.В. Силантьева. Генеральный директор Российского музыкального союза, первый заместитель председателя Совета Союза композиторов России, председатель коллегии Союза московских композиторов. Председатель подкомитета по предпринимательству в с...

Alexander Kniazev

Alexandre Alexandrovitch Kniazev (Russian: Александр Александрович Князев) (born 26 April 1961 in Moscow) is a Russian cellist and organist. He was named best musician of the year in Russia in 1999. Kniazev studied music at Moscow Conservatory. He entered the cello class of Alexander Fedorchenko and in the organ class of G. Kozlova. After a solid musical formation, he won first prizes in cello at the Vilnius competition, at that of G. Cassado, the International Chamber Music C...

Joseph Kobzon

Iosif (Joseph) Davydovich Kobzon (Russian: Ио́сиф Давы́дович Кобзо́н; 11 September 1937 – 30 August 2018) was a Soviet and Russian singer, known for his crooner style.

Daniil Kogan

Daniil Kogan was born in 1993 in Moscow into a family of musicians. He began studying the violin at the age of six with Marina Keselman. He graduated with honours from the Tchaikovsky Moscow State Conservatoire. He graduated with honours from the Tchaikovsky Moscow State Conservatoire (class of Maya Glezarova) and then studied at the Maastricht Conservatoire (class of Boris Belkin). He was a scholarship recipient and participant in concert programmes of the Vladimir Spivakov Internation...

Leonid Kogan

Leonid Borisovich Kogan (Russian: Леони́д Бори́сович Ко́ган; Ukrainian: Леонід Борисович Коган; 14 November 1924 – 17 December 1982) was a preeminent Soviet violinist during the 20th century. Many consider him to be among the greatest violinists of the 20th century. In particular, he is considered to have been one of the greatest representatives of the Soviet School of violin playing.

Eduard Kolmanovsky

Eduard Kolmanovsky (Russian: Эдуа́рд Саве́льевич Колмано́вский; 9 January 1923 – 27 July 1994) was a Soviet and Russian composer. He was awarded a USSR State Prize in 1984 and named a People's Artist of the USSR in 1991. A large part of his songs are dedicated to the themes of patriotic consciousness and civic awareness. Among them are: "I Love You, Life" (1958), "Do the Russians Want War?" (1961), "Alyosha" (1966).

Aleksey Koltsov

Aleksey Vasilievich Koltsov (Russian: Алексе́й Васи́льевич Кольцо́в) (October 15, 1809 – October 29, 1842) was a Russian poet who has been called a Russian Burns. His poems, frequently placed in the mouth of women, stylize peasant-life songs and idealize agricultural labour. Koltsov earnestly collected Russian folklore which strongly influenced his poetry. He celebrated simple peasants, their work and their lives. Many of his poems were put to music by such composers as Dargomyzhsky, Mussorgs...

Kirill Kondrashin

Kirill Petrovich Kondrashin, (Russian: Кири́лл Петро́вич Кондра́шин, Kirill Petrovič Kondrašin; 6 March [O.S. 21 February] 1914 – 7 March 1981) was a Soviet and Russian conductor.

Vladimir Krainev

Vladimir Krainev (Russian: Влади́мир Все́володович Кра́йнев; 1 April 1944 – 29 April 2011) was a Russian pianist and professor of piano, People's Artist of the USSR.

Daniil Kramer

Дании́л Бори́сович Кра́мер (англ. Daniel Kramer; род. 21 марта 1960, Харьков) — советский и российский джазовый пианист, педагог, композитор и продюсер, известный как своими регулярными и массовыми выступлениями, так и самостоятельно разработанной схемой гастрольных абонементов джазовой музыки в филармонических залах России. Народный артист России (2012). Действительный член Российской Академии Искусств (2014). Член общественного совета Российского еврейского конгресса.

Fritz Kreisler

Friedrich "Fritz" Kreisler (February 2, 1875 – January 29, 1962) was an Austrian-born violinist and composer. One of the most noted violin masters of his day, and regarded as one of the greatest violinists of all time, he was known for his sweet tone and expressive phrasing. Like many great violinists of his generation, he produced a characteristic sound which was immediately recognizable as his own. Although it derived in many respects from the Franco-Belgian school, his style is nonetheless...

Maya Kristalinskaya

Maya Vladimirovna Kristalinskaya (Russian: Ма́йя Влади́мировна Кристали́нская; 24 February 1932, Moscow – 19 June 1985, Moscow) was a Soviet-Russian singer. In 1957 she performed at the 6th World Festival of Youth and Students in Moscow with an amateur ensemble under the direction of Yury Saulsky and was awarded a Laureate prize. Later she started performing independently. Wide popularity came to her starting in the early 1960s when she recorded the song "Dva Berega" ("We are Two Ban...

Yevgeny Krylatov

Yevgeny Pavlovich Krylatov (Russian: Евге́ний Па́влович Крыла́тов; 23 February 1934 – 8 May 2019) was a Soviet and Russian composer who wrote songs for over 120 Soviet and Russian movies and animated films.

Michael Kugel

Michael Kugel (Ukrainian: Михайло Бенедиктович Кугель; born December 5, 1946) is a Ukrainian viola player and composer.

Sergei Kuprik

Серге́й Васи́льевич Ку́прик (род. 7 ноября 1973, Москва) — российский и украинский певец, музыкант. Заслуженный артист Украины (2004), Заслуженный артист Российской Федерации (2018). Солист группы «Лесоповал» (1994—2008). Сольный исполнитель (2009 — настоящее время)

Sergey Kuryokhin

Sergey Anatolyevich Kuryokhin (Russian: Серге́й Анато́льевич Курёхин, also transliterated as Sergei Kuriokhin, Sergei Kurekhin, Sergueï Kouriokhine, Sergey Kuriokhin, etc.; nicknamed "The Captain"; 16 June 1954 – 9 July 1996) was a Russian composer, pianist, music director, experimental artist, film actor and writer, based in St. Petersburg, Russia

Édouard Lalo

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 Lanovoy

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.

Alexander Lazarev

Alexander Nikolayevich Lazarev (Russian: Алекса́ндр Никола́евич Ла́зарев; born 5 July 1945, Moscow, Soviet Union) is a Russian conductor. He studied at the Saint Petersburg Conservatory, and later at the Moscow Conservatory with Leo Ginsbourg. In 1971, he was the first prize winner in a national conducting competition in the USSR. In 1972, he won a first prize and gold medal in the Karajan conducting competition in Berlin. From 1987-1995, Lazarev was both chief conductor and artistic ...

Fiodor Lednev

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...

Sergei Lemeshev

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 Leontiev

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 Lermontov

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...

Lev Leshchenko

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 Leshchenko

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.

Nikolai Leskov

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...

Valeriya Lesovskaya

Nikolai Levinovsky

Yuri Levitansky

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...

Leysya, Pesnya

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 ...

Franz Liszt

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, ...