1. Modest Mussorgsky (1839)

Russian Composer

Innovative Romantic composer known for "Night on Bald Mountain" and "Pictures at an Exhibition." He was one of The Five.

2. Mily Balakirev (1837)

Russian Composer

Prominent and passionate advocate of Russian music who was supportive of many Russian composers, including Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky.

3. Dmitri Shostakovich (1906)

Russian Composer

Prominent and influential 20th-century composer who reflected the moods of Soviet life under Joseph Stalin in his works. His oeuvre included 15 symphonies, six concerti, 15 string quartets, a piano...

4. Rodion Shchedrin (1932)

Russian Composer

Composed ballets based on the classics and won the Lenin in 1984, the USSR State Prize in 1972, and the State Prize of the Russian Federation in 1992.

5. Olesya Rostovskaya (1975)

Russian Composer

Olesya Rostovskaya is a Russian composer and organist and a prominent performer and exponent of such rare instruments as carillon and thereminvox.

6. Lyudmila Lyadova (1925)

Russian Composer

Lyudmila Alekseevna Lyadova is a Russian composer who lives and works in Moscow.

7. Aleksandr Zatsepin (1926)

Russian Composer

Aleksander Sergeyevich Zatsepin - a Soviet and Russian composer famous for his soundtracks to many popular movies notably comedies by Leonid Gaidai. In 1982 Zatsepin went to live in France...

8. Aleksandra Pakhmutova (1929)

Russian Composer

Aleksandra Nikolayevna Pakhmutova has remained one of the best known figures in Soviet and later Russian popular music since she first achieved fame in her homeland in the 1960s. She...

9. Aleksey Zhivotov (1950)

Russian Composer

Aleksey Semyonovich Zhivotov was a Russian composer who was born in Kazan and died in Leningrad. He studied at the Leningrad Conservatory with Vladimir Shcherbachyov. He was a committee member...

10. Alexander Vustin (1943)

Russian Composer

Alexander Kuzmich Vustin also Voustin or Wustin is a Russian composer.

11. Alexander Knaifel (1943)

Russian Composer

Alexander Aronovich Knaifel is a Russian composer known for his operas The Ghost of Canterville and Alice in Wonderland as well as for his music for cinema.

12. Alexander Raskatov (1953)

Russian Composer

Alexander Mikhailovich Raskatov is a Russian composer.

13. Alexander Mordukhovich (1946)

Russian Composer

Alexander Mordukhovich is a Jewish composer and musician from Russia.

14. Igor Kornelyuk (1962)

Russian Composer

Igor Yevgenyevich Kornelyuk born on November 16 1962 in Brest is a Soviet and Russian musician singer and composer.

15. Lev Konov (1952)

Russian Composer

Lev Konov is a Russian composer conductor and producer. He graduated in Moscow Conservatory in 1980.

16. Vladimir Matetsky (1952)

Russian Composer

Vladimir Leonardovich Matetsky ; May 14 1952 Moscow) is a Russian and Soviet composer producer and radio presenter. Matetsky is a member of the Russian Authors' Society. He is married...

17. Leonid Desyatnikov (1955)

Russian Composer

Leonid Arkadievich Desyatnikov is a Russian composer who first made a reputation with a number of film scores then achieving greater fame when his controversial opera Rosenthal’s Children was premiered...

18. Vladimir Tarnopolsky (1955)

Russian Composer

Vladimir Grigoryevich Tarnopolsky is a Russian composer.

19. Ivan Dzerzhinsky (1909)

Russian Composer

Ivan Ivanovich Dzerzhinsky –January 18 1978) was a Russian composer. He is notable in that the work for which he best known his opera Quiet Flows the Don was more...

20. Dmitri Capyrin (1960)

Russian Composer

Dmitri Capyrin is a Russian composer of contemporary classical music. He graduated from Lviv Conservatory in 1984. He lives in Moscow and works as a freelance composer. His music successfully...

21. Yekaterina Chemberdzhi (1960)

Russian Composer

Yekaterina Chemberdzhi is a Russian pianist and composer. She was born in Moscow and began her study of music at age 7. In 1978 she studied composition and piano...

22. Ivan Sokolov (composer) (1960)

Russian Composer

Ivan Glebovich Sokolov is a Russian-born composer and pianist currently living in Germany. After graduating from Moscow Conservatory in the early 80s he taught composition and orchestral score reading there...

23. Tikhon Khrennikov (1913)

Russian Composer

Tikhon Nikolayevich Khrennikov was a Russian and Soviet composer pianist leader of the Union of Soviet Composers who was also known for his political activities.

24. Dmitri Marine (1984)

Russian Composer

Dmitri Marine is a Russian-born composer currently based in Montreal.

25. Iosif Andriasov (1933)

Russian Composer

Iosif Arshakovich Andriasov also Ovsep Andreasian was a composer-symphonist a moral philosopher and a teacher. Andriasov was born in Moscow on April 7 1933 to an Armenian family. He is...

26. Sergey Milnichenko (1966)

Russian Composer

Sergei Grigoryevich Milnichenko is a Russian composer songwriter guitarist and record producer. His career began in the Soviet era.