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Viktoria Mullova
Russian violinist
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Nikolai Myaskovsky
Russian composer
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Tikhon Khrennikov
Russian Soviet composer (1913-2007)
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Reinhold Glière
Soviet Ukrainian composer
4
Mstislav Rostropovich
Russian cellist and conductor
5
Yuri Shaporin
Soviet composer and conductor
6
Vladimir Ashkenazy
Icelandic pianist and conductor from Russia
7
Rodion Shchedrin
Russian composer
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Aram Khachaturian
Armenian Soviet composer and conductor (1903-1978)
9
Mikhail Pletnev
Russian pianist, conductor, and composer
10
Sergei Prokofiev
Ukrainian & Russian Soviet pianist and composer
11
Gavriil Popov
Russian composer
12
Dmitri Smirnov
Russian composer
13
Anton Arensky
Russian composer, pianist and professor of music
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Tolib Shakhidi
Soviet composer
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Leonid Kogan
Soviet musician
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Bella Davidovich
American musician
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David Oistrakh
Soviet violinist
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Mieczysław Weinberg
Polish Soviet composer
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Dmitri Shostakovich
Russian Soviet composer and pianist (1906-1975)
20
Yevgeny Svetlanov
Russian conductor, composer, and pianist
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Edison Denisov
Russian Soviet composer
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Gennady Rozhdestvensky
Russian conductor and composer
