Russian Composers (Short List)


Romantic

Mikhail Glinka  (1804–1857)                     First composer of Russian national music

Alexander Dargomyzhsky  (1813–1869) 

Anton Rubinstein  (1829–1894) 
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Alexander Borodin  (1833–1887)                  One of the Mighty Handful  (The Five) 
César Cui  (1835–1918)                                   One of the Mighty Handful - not important    
Mily Balakirev  (1837–1910)                         Leader of the Mighty Handful  (The Five) 
Modest Mussorgsky  (1839–1881)                One of the Mighty Handful  (The Five) 
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky  (1840–1893) 
Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov  (1844–1908)      One of the Mighty Handful  (The Five)
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Sergei Taneyev  (1856–1915) 

Anton Arensky  (1861–1906) 

Alexander Glazunov  (1865–1936) 

Alexander Scriabin  (1872–1915)     A romantic turned modernist

Sergei Rachmaninoff  (1873–1943) 


Modern/contemporary

Nikolai Medtner  (1880–1951) 

Nikolai Myaskovsky  (1881–1950)  "Father of the Soviet Symphony"

Igor Stravinsky  (1882–1971) 

Sergei Prokofiev  (1891–1953) 

Aram Khachaturian  (1903–1978) 

Dmitry Kabalevsky  (1904–1987) 

Dmitri Shostakovich  (1906–1975) 

Georgy Sviridov  (1915–1998) 

Galina Ustvolskaya  (1919–2006) 

Vladimir Vavilov (1925–1973) 

Sofia Gubaidulina  (born 1931) 
 
Rodion Shchedrin  (born 1932) 

Alfred Schnittke  (1934–1998) 
 
Vladimir Martynov  (born 1946) 

Leonid Desyatnikov  (born 1955) 

Lera Auerbach  (born 1973) 



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