page_title: List of Russian people
section_title: Classical composers and musicians
hierarchical_section_title: List of Russian people / Art / Performing arts / Classical composers and musicians
caption_attribution_description: Russian composer Sergei Prokofiev (1891-1953)
context_page_description: This is a list of people associated with the modern Russian Federation, the Soviet Union, Imperial Russia, Russian Tsardom, the Grand Duchy of Moscow, Kievan Rus', and other predecessor states of Russia.
  Regardless of ethnicity or emigration, the list includes famous natives of Russia and its predecessor states, as well as people who were born elsewhere but spent most of their active life in Russia.
context_section_description: Alexander Vasilyevich Alexandrov, composer
  Anton Arensky, composer
  Mily Balakirev, composer
  Alexander Borodin, composer
  Sergei Bortkiewicz, composer
  Valeri Brainin, composer, musical scientist
  César Cui, composer
  Maria Eklund, conductor
  Michael L. Geller, composer, viola player
  Valery Gergiev, pianist, conductor
  Emil Gilels, pianist
  Alexander Glazunov, composer
  Mikhail Glinka, composer of Russlan and Ludmilla
  Nikolai Golovanov, conductor
  Alexander Gretchaninoff, composer
  Vladimir Horowitz, pianist
  Dmitry Kabalevsky
  Aram Khachaturian, composer
  Tikhon Khrennikov, composer
  Leonid Kogan, violinist
  Anatoly Konstantinovich Lyadov, composer
  Boris Kozhevnikov, composer, most famously of Symphony No. 3, Slavyanskya
  Sergei Lyapunov, composer
  Nikolai Medtner, composer, pianist
  Modest Mussorgsky, composer of Boris Godunov, Pictures at an Exhibition
  Nikolai Myaskovsky, composer
  Natasha Paremski, pianist
  Mikhail Pletnev, pianist
  Gregor Piatigorsky, composer
  Sergei Prokofiev, composer, pianist and conductor
  Sergei Rachmaninoff, pianist, composer, conductor
  Vadim Repin, violinist
  Sviatoslav Richter, pianist
  Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov, composer
  Mstislav Rostropovich, cellist and conductor
  Gennady Rozhdestvensky, conductor
  Nikolai Rubinstein, pianist, conductor and composer
  Alexei Rumiantsev, pianist, composer
  Vasily Ilyich Safonov, composer and music educator
  Alfred Schnittke, composer
  Alexander Scriabin, composer and pianist
  Dmitri Shostakovich, composer and pianist
  Igor Stravinsky, composer
  Alexander Serov, composer
  Rodion Shchedrin, composer
  Vissarion Shebalin, composer
  Regina Spektor, musician
  Georgy Sviridov, composer
  Aleksandr Taneyev, composer
  Sergey Taneyev, composer
  Mikael Tariverdiev, composer
  Pyotr Tchaikovsky, composer
  Boris Tchaikovsky, composer
  Alexander Tcherepnin, composer
  Galina Ustvolskaya, composer
  Maxim Vengerov, violinist
caption: Prokofiev
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