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Yury Bashmet
Yury Bashmet
Russian conductor, violinist, and violist
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Rodion Shchedrin
Rodion Shchedrin
Russian composer
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Alfred Schnittke
Alfred Schnittke
German Soviet composer
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Yevgeny Mravinsky
Yevgeny Mravinsky
Russian conductor, pianist, and music pedagogue (1903–1988)
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Yuri Shaporin
Yuri Shaporin
Soviet composer and conductor
Gennady Rozhdestvensky
Russian conductor and composer

Gennady Rozhdestvensky

Intro
Russian conductor and composer
Awards Received
Order of the Rising Sun, 3rd class
Order of Lenin
Hero of Socialist Labour
People's Artist of the USSR
Order "For Merit to the Fatherland" II class
Order "For Merit to the Fatherland" III class
Order "For Merit to the Fatherland" IV class
Order of the Red Banner of Labour
People's Artist of the RSFSR
Merited Artist of the RSFSR
Lenin Prize
Order "For Merit to the Fatherland" I class
Commander of the Order of the British Empire
Order of Cyril and Methodius
State Prize of the Russian Federation
Officer of the Legion of Honour
Nominated For
Academy Award for Best Original Musical Score
Member of, past and present
Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences

Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences

Rozhdestvensky at the Prague Spring Festival in 2007

Gennady Nikolayevich Rozhdestvensky, CBE (Russian: Генна́дий Никола́евич Рожде́ственский; 4 May 1931 – 16 June 2018) was a Soviet and Russian conductor.