This is a list of composers of music from Russia, ordered by date of birth:
[edit] The Five
The Five, also known as The Mighty Handful, a circle of influential Russian musical nationalists, during the Romantic period in music:
- Mikhail Glinka (1804-1857), one of the first significant Russian composers
- Alexander Dargomyzhsky (1813-1869).
- Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (1840-1893), influential Romantic composer, famous for his ballets (The Nutcracker, Swan Lake), his Romeo and Juliet Overture-Fantasy, 1812 Overture and his later symphonies (#4 – #6)
- Alexander Taneyev (1850-1918), Romantic era nationalist composer
- Alexander Kopylov (1854-1911), composer of four quartets, a symphony, also a member of the Belyayev circle
- Sergei Taneyev (1856-1915), Romantic composer, oriented towards classical forms and the central European tradition
- Mikhail Ippolitov-Ivanov (1859-1935), Romantic composer, noted for his orchestral suite Caucasian Sketches
- Nikolay Alexandrovich Sokolov (1859-1922), composer of chamber and choral music, member of the Belyayev circle
- Alexander Gretchaninov (1864-1956), late Romantic, student of Rimsky-Korsakov, member "new Russian choral school"
- Alexander Glazunov (1865-1936), late Romantic composer influenced by Johannes Brahms, Richard Wagner and Franz Liszt, one of the few composers ever to write a saxophone concerto
- Vasily Kalinnikov (1866-1901), Romantic composer who lived a short life due to illness. Most famous for his first symphony.
- Alexander Scriabin (1872-1915), Romantic, known for his harmonically adventurous piano sonatas and theatrical orchestral works
- Sergei Rachmaninoff (1873-1943), late Romantic virtuoso pianist and composer, known for Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini and four popular piano concertos
- Reinhold Glière (1875-1956), composer who wrote pieces in a romantic style well into the 20th century
- Nikolai Medtner (1880-1951), 20th century composer and pianist
- Nikolai Myaskovsky (1881-1950), 20th century composer and teacher of Polish birth, composer of 27 symphonies, 13 string quartets and other works
- Igor Stravinsky (1882-1971), 20th century primitivist, neoclassical and jazz composer, known for his early ballet The Rite of Spring
- Maximilian Steinberg (1883-1946), 20th century composer and pedagogue, born in what is now Lithuania
- Adrian Schaposhnikov (1888-1967), 20th century composer.
- Sergei Prokofiev (1891-1953), 20th century neoclassical composer, known for his symphonies (mostly #1 "Classical Symphony and #5), ballets, five piano concertos and six operas
- Dmitri Kabalevsky (1904-1987), 20th century composer
- Dmitri Shostakovich (1906-1975), 20th century composer, wrote fifteen symphonies and is especially noted for his fifth symphony, combined elements of romantic music with atonality and tone rows
- Julian Scriabin (1908-1919), son of Alexander Scriabin and a composer himself. Drowned at the young age of 11.
- Vladimir Shainsky (born 1925), 20th and 21st century composer, wrote mostly works for children and popular songs.
- Vyacheslav Nagovitsyn (born 1939), 20th century composer and violinist, works in Russia.
- Nikolai Kapustin (born 1937), 20th century composer and pianist, who uses jazz idioms set amid formal classical structures in his compositions.
- Yury G. Chernavsky (born 1947), 20th and 21st century composer, works in Russia, West Europe and US (Hollywood), writes music mostly in R&B, Pop and Rock music styles
- Yakov Kazyansky (born 1948), 20th and 21st century composer, writes mostly theatrical music and jazz
- Alla Pavlova (born 1952), 20th an 21st century composer. Recognized mostly for her symphonic compositions.
- Andrei Krylov (born 1961), 20th and 21st century composer, wrote mostly works for classical guitar, flute and keyboards
- Evgeni Kostitsyn (born 1963), 21st century composer, originator of synchronous and Cubist music
- Dmitry Lubenskiy (born 1979), 21st century composer of film scores and cartoons
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