← Back to countries

Russian

NameNationalityBornDiedFlourishedEra(s)
Alexander Alyabyev Russian 1787 1851 Classical-era, Romantic-era
Alexey Verstovsky Russian 1799 1862 Romantic-era
Mikhail Glinka Russian 1804 1857 Romantic-era
Alexandre Dubuque Russian-French 1812 1898 Romantic-era
Alexander Dargomyzhsky Russian 1813 1869 Romantic-era
Anton Rubinstein Russian 1829 1894 Romantic-era
Ivan Larionov Russian 1830 1889 Romantic-era
Alexander Borodin Russian 1833 1887 Romantic-era
César Cui Russian 1835 1918 20th-century, Romantic-era
Mily Balakirev Russian 1837 1910 20th-century, Romantic-era
Modest Mussorgsky Russian 1839 1881 Romantic-era
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky Russian 1840 1893 Romantic-era
Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov Russian 1844 1908 20th-century, Romantic-era
Ella Adayevskaya Russian 1846 1926 20th-century
Alexander Taneyev Russian 1850 1918 20th-century
Alexander Kopylov Russian 1854 1911 20th-century
Anatoly Lyadov Russian 1855 1914 20th-century, Romantic-era
Eduard Schütt Russian 1856 1933 20th-century
Sergei Taneyev Russian 1856 1915 20th-century, Romantic-era
Arthur Friedheim Russian 1859 1932 20th-century
Mikhail Ippolitov-Ivanov Russian 1859 1935 20th-century, Romantic-era
Sergei Lyapunov Russian 1859 1924 20th-century, Romantic-era
Victor Ewald Russian 1860 1935 20th-century
Anton Arensky Russian 1861 1906 20th-century, Romantic-era
Georgy Catoire Russian 1861 1926 20th-century, Romantic-era
Václav Suk Czech-born Russian 1861 1933 20th-century, Romantic-era
Georgi Conus Russian 1862 1933 20th-century
Felix Blumenfeld Russian 1863 1931 20th-century
Vladimir Sokalsky Russian 1863 1919 20th-century
Alexander Gretchaninov Russian 1864 1956 20th-century
Alexander Glazunov Russian 1865 1936 20th-century, Romantic-era
Vasily Kalinnikov Russian 1866 1901 20th-century, Romantic-era
Vladimir Rebikov Russian 1866 1920 20th-century, Romantic-era
Samuel Maykapar Russian 1867 1938 20th-century, Romantic-era
Julius Conus Russian 1869 1942 20th-century, Romantic-era
Vasily Kalafati Russian 1869 1942 20th-century
Vassily Brandt Russian 1869 1923 20th-century
Arseny Koreshchenko Russian 1870 1921 20th-century
Viktor Kalinnikov Russian 1870 1927 20th-century
Alexander Scriabin Russian 1872 1915 20th-century, Romantic-era
Paul Juon Russian 1872 1940 20th-century
Sergei Vasilenko Russian 1872 1956 20th-century
Modest Altschuler Russian 1873 1963 20th-century
Nikolai Tcherepnin Russian 1873 1945 20th-century
Sergei Rachmaninoff Russian 1873 1943 20th-century, Romantic-era
Serge Koussevitzky Russian 1874 1951 20th-century
Alexander Goldenweiser Russian 1875 1961 20th-century
Reinhold Glière Russian 1875 1956 20th-century, Romantic-era
Mikhail Savoyarov Russian 1876 1941 20th-century
Alexander Goedicke Russian 1877 1957 20th-century
Pavel Chesnokov Russian 1877 1944 20th-century
Vladimir Tsybin Russian 1877 1949 20th-century
Yevgeny Gunst Russian 1877 1950 20th-century
Ossip Gabrilowitsch Russian-born American 1878 1936 20th-century
Nikolai Medtner Russian 1880 1951 20th-century
Nikolai Myaskovsky Russian 1881 1950 20th-century
Nikolai Roslavets Russian 1881 1944 20th-century
Igor Stravinsky Russian 1882 1971 20th-century
Lazare Saminsky Russian 1882 1959 20th-century
Alexander Krein Russian 1883 1951 20th-century
Alexander Vasilyevich Alexandrov Russian 1883 1946 20th-century
Maximilian Steinberg Russian 1883 1946 20th-century
Mikhail Gnessin Russian 1883 1957 20th-century
Boris Asafyev Russian 1884 1949 20th-century
Boris Levenson Russian-born American 1884 1947 20th-century
Louis Gruenberg Russian 1884 1964 20th-century
Arseny Avraamov Russian 1886 1944 20th-century
Joseph Achron Russian 1886 1943 20th-century
Alexei Stanchinsky Russian 1888 1914 20th-century
Anatoly Nikolayevich Alexandrov Russian 1888 1982 20th-century
Vladimir Shcherbachov Russian 1889 1952 20th-century
Samuil Feinberg Russian and Soviet 1890 1962 20th-century
Alexander Kasyanov Soviet Russian 1891 1982 20th-century
Sergei Prokofiev Russian 1891 1953 20th-century
Arthur Lourié Russian 1892 1966 20th-century
Nikolai Obukhov Russian 1892 1954 20th-century
Aleksandr Gauk Russian/Soviet 1893 1963 20th-century
Leo Ornstein American (Russian-born) 1893 2002 20th-century
Sergei Protopopov Russian 1893 1954 20th-century
Zinovy Feldman Russian 1893 1942 20th-century
Aaron Avshalomov Russian 1894 1965 20th-century
Nicolas Slonimsky Russian-born American 1894 1995 20th-century
Boris Sobinov Russian 1895 1956 20th-century
Alexander Abramsky Russian 1898 1985 20th-century
Lev Knipper Russian 1898 1974 20th-century
Alexander Tcherepnin Russian 1899 1977 20th-century
Sophie Carmen Eckhardt-Gramatté Russian-born Canadian 1899 1974 20th-century
Alexander Mosolov Russian 1900 1973 20th-century
Gotfrid Hasanov Russian 1900 1965 20th-century
Grigori Gamburg Russian 1900 1967 20th-century
Isaak Dunayevsky Russian 1900 1955 20th-century
Nicolai Berezowsky Russian-American 1900 1953 20th-century
Boris Koutzen Russian-American 1901 1966 20th-century
Vissarion Shebalin Russian 1902 1963 20th-century
Vladimir Fere Russian 1902 1971 20th-century
Vernon Duke Russian 1903 1969 20th-century
Vladimir Vlasov Russian 1903 1986 20th-century
Aleksey Zhivotov Russian 1904 1964 20th-century
Dmitry Kabalevsky Russian 1904 1987 20th-century
Gavriil Popov Russian 1904 1972 20th-century
Boris Arapov Russian 1905 1992 20th-century
Dmitri Shostakovich Russian 1906 1975 20th-century
Julian Scriabin Russian 1908 1919 20th-century
Nina Makarova Russian 1908 1976 20th-century
Evgeny Golubev Russian 1910 1988 20th-century
Vadim Salmanov Russian 1912 1978 20th-century
Tikhon Khrennikov Russian 1913 2007 20th-century, 21st-century
Valery Zhelobinsky Russian 1913 1946 20th-century
David Ashkenazi Russian 1915 1997 20th-century
Georgy Sviridov Russian 1915 1998 20th-century
Grigory Frid Russian 1915 2012 20th-century, 21st-century
Mordecai Seter Russian-born Israeli 1916 1994 20th-century
Nikolay Peyko Russian 1916 1995 20th-century
Galina Ustvolskaya Russian 1919 2006 20th-century, 21st-century
Aleksandr Lokshin Russian 1920 1987 20th-century
Karen Khachaturian Soviet and Russian 1920 2011 20th-century, 21st-century
Oscar Feltsman Russian 1921 2013 20th-century, 21st-century
German Galynin Russian 1922 1966 20th-century
Mikhaïl Nossyrev Russian 1924 1981 20th-century
Andrei Eshpai Russian 1925 2015 20th-century, 21st-century
Boris Tchaikovsky Russian 1925 1996 20th-century
Veniamin Basner Russian 1925 1996 20th-century
Vladimir Shainsky Russian 1925 2017 20th-century, 21st-century
Vladimir Vavilov Russian 1925 1973 20th-century
Aleksandr Zatsepin Russian 1926 20th-century, 21st-century
Sergei Agababov Russian 1926 1959 20th-century
Vitaly Bujanovsky Russian 1928 1993 20th-century
Yevgeny Svetlanov Russian 1928 2002 21st-century
Aleksandra Pakhmutova Russian 1929 20th-century
Boris Kravchenko Russian 1929 1979 20th-century
Edison Denisov Russian 1929 1996 20th-century
Nikolai Karetnikov Russian 1930 1994 20th-century
Sofia Gubaidulina Russian 1931 2025 20th-century, 21st-century
Fyodor Druzhinin Russian 1932 2007 21st-century
Rodion Shchedrin Russian 1932 2025 20th-century, 21st-century
Sergei Slonimsky Russian 1932 2020 20th-century, 21st-century
Albert Markov Russian American 1933 21st-century
Andrei Volkonsky Russian 1933 2008 21st-century
Alfred Schnittke Russian 1934 1998 20th-century
Zhanneta Metallidi Russian 1934 2019 20th-century, 21st-century
Sandor Kalloś Russian 1935 20th-century, 21st-century
Anatoly Dokumentov Russian 1937 20th-century, 21st-century
Misha Geller Russian 1937 2007 20th-century, 21st-century
Nikolai Kapustin Russian 1937 2020 20th-century, 21st-century
Boris Tishchenko Russian 1939 2010 20th-century, 21st-century
Vyacheslav Artyomov Russian 1940 21st-century
Vladislav Shoot Russian-British 1941 21st-century
Viktor Suslin Russian 1942 2012 20th-century, 21st-century
Alexander Knaifel Russian 1943 2024 20th-century, 21st-century
Alexander Vustin Russian 1943 2020 20th-century, 21st-century
Tatyana Chudova Russian 1944 2021 20th-century, 21st-century
Alexander Zhurbin Russian 1945 21st-century
Alexandre Rabinovitch-Barakovsky Russian-Swiss 1945 21st-century
Alexey Rybnikov Russian 1945 21st-century
Michael Kugel Russian 1946 21st-century
Vladimir Martynov Russian 1946 20th-century, 21st-century
Grigoriy Korchmar Russian 1947 2025 20th-century, 21st-century
Nikolai Korndorf Russian and Canadian 1947 2001 20th-century
Vasily Lobanov Russian 1947 21st-century
Dmitri Smirnov Russian / British 1948 2020 20th-century, 21st-century
Leonid Bobylev Russian 1949 20th-century, 21st-century
Zhanna Vasil'yevna Pliyeva Russian 1949 21st-century
Elena Firsova Russian / British 1950 20th-century, 21st-century
Alla Pavlova Russian 1952 20th-century, 21st-century
Lev Konov Russian 1952 20th-century, 21st-century
Mikhail Kollontay Russian 1952 21st-century
Sergei Pavlenko Russian-British 1952 21st-century
Tatyana Sergeyeva Russian 1952 20th-century, 21st-century
Alexander Raskatov Russian 1953 20th-century, 21st-century
Victor Kissine Russian 1953 21st-century
Leonid Desyatnikov Russian 1955 21st-century
Masguda Shamsutdinova Russian 1955 21st-century
Vladimir Tarnopolsky Russian 1955 21st-century
Yuri Kasparov Russian-Armenian 1955 21st-century
Alexandre Danilevsky Russian-born French 1957 20th-century, 21st-century
Mikhail Pletnev Russian 1957 21st-century
Dmitri Capyrin Russian 1960 21st-century
Ivan Glebovich Sokolov Russian-German 1960 21st-century
Ivan Sokolov Russian 1960 21st-century
Yekaterina Chemberdzhi Russian 1960 21st-century
Igor Raykhelson Russian born American 1961 21st-century
Abdalla El-Masri Lebanese Russian 1962 21st-century
Anton Batagov Russian 1965 20th-century, 21st-century
Irina Bogushevskaya Russian 1965 20th-century, 21st-century
Yuri Khanon Russian 1965 20th-century, 21st-century
Tanya Anisimova Russian 1966 21st-century
Boris Yoffe Russian-Israeli 1968 21st-century
Victoria Borisova-Ollas Russian-Swedish 1969 20th-century
Anton Rovner Russian-American 1970 21st-century
Fred Momotenko Russian-Dutch 1970 20th-century, 21st-century
Evgeny Kissin Russian, British, Israeli 1971 21st-century
Lera Auerbach Russian 1973 20th-century, 21st-century
Elena Langer Russian-born British 1974 21st-century
Olesya Rostovskaya Russian 1975 20th-century, 21st-century
Lev Zhurbin Russian 1978 21st-century
Daniil Trifonov Russian 1991 21st-century