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Valery Gergiev
Russian conductor and opera company director
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Yevgeny Svetlanov
Russian conductor, composer, and pianist
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Evgeny Kissin
Russian classical pianist
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Vladimir Jurowski
Russian conductor
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Zubin Mehta
Indian conductor
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Claudio Abbado
Italian conductor (1933-2014)
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Yury Bashmet
Russian conductor, violinist, and violist
7
Albert Coates
British conductor
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Sergei Rachmaninoff
Russian composer, pianist, and conductor
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Mstislav Rostropovich
Russian cellist and conductor
10
Kent Nagano
American conductor and opera administrator
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Sergei Prokofiev
Ukrainian & Russian Soviet pianist and composer
12
Nikolai Myaskovsky
Russian composer
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Manuel Rosenthal
French composer and conductor
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Anna Netrebko
Russian-born Austrian operatic soprano
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Gennady Rozhdestvensky
Russian conductor and composer
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Seiji Ozawa
Japanese orchestra conductor
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Colin Davis
British conductor
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Anatole Fistoulari
British musician
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Walter Weller
Austrian conductor
