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Gennady Rozhdestvensky
Gennady Rozhdestvensky
Russian conductor and composer
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Dmitri Smirnov
Dmitri Smirnov
Russian composer
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Nikolai Myaskovsky
Nikolai Myaskovsky
Russian composer
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Yury Bashmet
Yury Bashmet
Russian conductor, violinist, and violist
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Dmitri Shostakovich
Dmitri Shostakovich
Russian Soviet composer and pianist (1906-1975)
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Edison Denisov
Edison Denisov
Russian Soviet composer
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Alexander Glazunov
Alexander Glazunov
Russian composer, music teacher and conductor
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Kremerata Baltica
Kremerata Baltica
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Mstislav Rostropovich
Mstislav Rostropovich
Russian cellist and conductor
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Gidon Kremer
Gidon Kremer
Latvian violinist and conductor
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Mieczysław Weinberg
Mieczysław Weinberg
Polish Soviet composer
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Tolib Shakhidi
Tolib Shakhidi
Soviet composer
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Veniamin Basner
Veniamin Basner
Soviet and Russian composer
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Tikhon Khrennikov
Tikhon Khrennikov
Russian Soviet composer (1913-2007)
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Mikhail Pletnev
Mikhail Pletnev
Russian pianist, conductor, and composer
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Andrei Gavrilov
Andrei Gavrilov
Russian musician
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William Alwyn
William Alwyn
English composer, conductor, and music teacher
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Rodion Shchedrin
Rodion Shchedrin
Russian composer
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Yasushi Akutagawa
Yasushi Akutagawa
Japanese composer (1925-1989)
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Maximilian Steinberg
Maximilian Steinberg
Russian classical music composer (1883-1946)
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German Soviet composer
Record Labels
Awards Received
Knight Commander's Cross of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany
Bach Prize of the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg
Praemium Imperiale
Honored art worker of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic
State Prize of the Russian Federation
Austrian Decoration for Science and Art
Member of, past and present
Academy of Arts of the GDR

Academy of Arts of the GDR

Academy of Arts, Berlin

Academy of Arts, Berlin

Bavarian Academy of Fine Arts

Bavarian Academy of Fine Arts

Alfred Schnittke

Alfred Garrievich Schnittke (Russian: Альфре́д Га́рриевич Шни́тке, Alfred Garriyevich Shnitke; 24 November 1934 – 3 August 1998) was a Soviet and German composer. Schnittke's early music shows the strong influence of Dmitri Shostakovich. He developed a polystylistic technique in works such as the epic Symphony No. 1 (1969–1972) and his first concerto grosso (1977). In the 1980s, Schnittke's music began to become more widely known abroad with the publication of his second (1980) and third (1983) string quartets and the String Trio (1985); the ballet Peer Gynt (1985–1987); the third (1981), fourth (1984), and fifth (1988) symphonies; and the viola concerto (1985) and first cello concerto (1985–1986). As his health deteriorated, Schnittke's music started to abandon much of the extroversion of his polystylism and retreated into a more withdrawn, bleak style.