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Leonid Kogan
Soviet musician
1
Liana Isakadze
Georgian violinist
2
Viktoria Mullova
Russian violinist
3
Nikolai Myaskovsky
Russian composer
4
Nathan Milstein
American musician
5
Julian Sitkovetsky
Russian-Ukrainian violinist
6
Jascha Heifetz
Lithuanian violinist
7
Isaac Stern
American musician
8
James Ehnes
Canadian concert violinist
9
Boris Belkin
Soviet violinist
10
Sergei Prokofiev
Ukrainian & Russian Soviet pianist and composer
11
Aram Khachaturian
Armenian Soviet composer and conductor (1903-1978)
12
Andrei Gavrilov
Russian musician
13
André Gertler
Hungarian musician
14
Sviatoslav Richter
Soviet pianist
15
Ilya Itin
Russian pianist
16
Arthur Grumiaux
Belgian violinist and pianist
17
Vladimir Ashkenazy
Icelandic pianist and conductor from Russia
18
Gustav Schmahl
German musician
19
Gidon Kremer
Latvian violinist and conductor
20
Dmitri Kabalevsky
Russian composer
21
Tikhon Khrennikov
Russian Soviet composer (1913-2007)
22
Mikhail Pletnev
Russian pianist, conductor, and composer
23
Mstislav Rostropovich
Russian cellist and conductor
24
Arabella Steinbacher
German violinist
25
Alexandre Da Costa
Canadian violinist
26
Leonidas Kavakos
Greek violinist
