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Gennady Rozhdestvensky
Russian conductor and composer
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Mstislav Rostropovich
Russian cellist and conductor
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Dmitri Smirnov
Russian composer
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Alfred Schnittke
German Soviet composer
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Yury Bashmet
Russian conductor, violinist, and violist
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Nikolai Myaskovsky
Russian composer
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Truls Mørk
Norwegian cellist.
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Yuri Shaporin
Soviet composer and conductor
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Edison Denisov
Russian Soviet composer
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Gavriil Popov
Russian composer
10
Erkki-Sven Tüür
Estonian composer
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Paavo Berglund
Finnish conductor and violinist
12
Vadim Repin
Russian violinist
13
Wendy Warner
American musician
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Sulkhan Tsintsadze
Georgian composer
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Dmitry Yablonsky
Russian cellist
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David Horne
Scottish composer, pianist and teacher
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Vakhtang Kakhidze
Georgian composer
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Lewis Spratlan
American music academic and composer of contemporary classical music
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Sergei Prokofiev
Ukrainian & Russian Soviet pianist and composer
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Rolf Liebermann
Swiss composer
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Ellen Taaffe Zwilich
American composer
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Catherine Hewgill
Australian cellist
