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Tikhon Khrennikov
Russian Soviet composer (1913-2007)
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Dmitri Shostakovich
Russian Soviet composer and pianist (1906-1975)
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Alexander Glazunov
Russian composer, music teacher and conductor
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Natalia Gutman
Russian musician
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Leonid Nikolayev
Russian musician
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Nikolai Myaskovsky
Russian composer
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Aram Khachaturian
Armenian Soviet composer and conductor (1903-1978)
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Gennady Rozhdestvensky
Russian conductor and composer
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Maximilian Steinberg
Russian classical music composer (1883-1946)
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Sergei Prokofiev
Ukrainian & Russian Soviet pianist and composer
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David Oistrakh
Soviet violinist
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Sviatoslav Richter
Soviet pianist
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Mstislav Rostropovich
Russian cellist and conductor
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Lilya Zilberstein
Russian pianist
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Yury Bashmet
Russian conductor, violinist, and violist
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Yuri Levitin
Soviet Russian composer
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Dmitri Kabalevsky
Russian composer
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Veniamin Basner
Soviet and Russian composer
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Ghazaros Saryan
Soviet composer
