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Nikolai Myaskovsky

Russian composer

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Emerson String Quartet

string quartet

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Isaac Stern

American musician

3

Sergei Prokofiev

Ukrainian & Russian Soviet pianist and composer

4

Veniamin Basner

Soviet and Russian composer

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Dmitri Shostakovich

Russian Soviet composer and pianist (1906-1975)

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Valery Gergiev

Russian conductor and opera company director

7

David Oistrakh

Soviet violinist

8

Hollywood String Quartet

American string quartet

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Alan Shulman

American composer and cellist

10

Mstislav Rostropovich

Russian cellist and conductor

11

Maximilian Steinberg

Russian classical music composer (1883-1946)

12

Sergiu Celibidache

Romanian conductor

13

Mieczysław Weinberg

Polish Soviet composer

14

Juilliard String Quartet

classical music string quartet-in-residence

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Gavriil Popov

Russian composer

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Yevgeny Mravinsky

Russian conductor, pianist, and music pedagogue (1903–1988)

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Melos Quartet

string quartet