Category
page 120th-century Russian male musicians
Vladimir Vysotsky
Soviet singer-songwriter and actor (1938–1980)
Dmitri Shostakovich
Soviet composer and pianist (1906-1975)
Sergei Prokofiev
Russian and Soviet pianist, composer and conductor (1891–1953)
Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov
Russian composer (1844–1908)
Sergei Rachmaninoff
Russian composer, pianist and conductor (1873–1943)
Alexander Scriabin
Russian composer and pianist (1872–1915)
Mily Balakirev
Russian composer, pianist, and conductor (1837-1910)
Mstislav Rostropovich
Soviet and Russian cellist and conductor (1927-2007)
Vladimir Horowitz
Russian and American pianist (1903–1989)
César Cui
Russian composer and army officer
Sviatoslav Richter
Soviet pianist (1915-1997)
David Oistrakh
Soviet violinist (1908-1974)
Jascha Heifetz
Russian-American violinist (1901–1987)
Dmitri Kabalevsky
Soviet-Russian composer (1904-1986)
Alexander Alexandrov
Russian Soviet composer

Mykola Lysenko
Ukrainian composer, pianist, conductor and ethnomusicologist (1842–1912)

Alfred Schnittke
Soviet-born Russian composer (1934–1998)
Vladimir Ashkenazy
Icelandic pianist and conductor from Russia (born 1937)

Mariss Jansons
Latvian conductor (1943–2019)

Georgy Sviridov
Soviet and Russian composer (1915—1998)

Reinhold Glière
Soviet Ukrainian composer (1875–1956)

Nikolai Myaskovsky
Russian and Soviet composer (1881—1950)
Yevgeny Mravinsky
Soviet Russian conductor, pianist, and music pedagogue (1903–1988)

Tikhon Khrennikov
Russian Soviet composer (1913-2007)

Anatoly Lyadov
Russian composer, teacher and conductor (1855-1914)

Leonid Kogan
Soviet violinist (1924–1982)
Gennady Rozhdestvensky
Russian conductor and composer (1931-2018)
Eduard Artemyev
Soviet and Russian composer (1937–2022)

Mikhail Ippolitov-Ivanov
Russian and Soviet composer, conductor , musicologist and music teacher (1859–1935)

Nikolai Medtner
Russian composer and pianist (1879–1951)
Yuri Temirkanov
Russian conductor (1938–2023)

Nathan Milstein
American musician (1902–1992)
Nikolai Kapustin
Soviet and Russian composer and pianist (1937–2020)
Vasily Kalinnikov
Russian composer (1866–1900)
Mikael Tariverdiev
Soviet composer of Armenian descent (1931–1996)
Edison Denisov
Soviet and Russian composer (1929–1996)
Yevgeny Svetlanov
Russian conductor, composer, and pianist (1928-2002)
Vasily Solovyov-Sedoi
Russian composer (1907-1979)
Kirill Kondrashin
Russian conductor (1914–1981)
Valery Khalilov
Soviet conductor and composer (1952–2016)
Vladimir Sofronitsky
Russian pianist (1901-1961)
Vissarion Shebalin
Russian Soviet composer, music educator (1902—1963)
Artur Kapp
Estonian composer (1878-1952)
Rudolf Tobias
Estonian composer (1873-1918)
Nicolas Slonimsky
Russian composer (1894-1995)
Igor Oistrakh
Ukrainian musician (1931–2021)
Vladimir Spivakov
Russian musician
Vasily Agapkin
Russian author, composer, and conductor (1884–1964)
Yuri Shaporin
Soviet composer and conductor (1887–1966)
Maxim Shostakovich
Soviet, American and Russian conductor and pianist
Andrey Petrov
Soviet and Russian composer (1930–2006)

Mikhail Gnesin
Russian Jewish composer and teacher (1883–1957)
Eduard Nápravník
Czech conductor and composer
Aleksandr Gauk
Russian composer and conductor (1893–1963)
Denis Matsuev
Russian pianist
Josef Lhévinne
Russian pianist (1874–1944)
Vladimir Shainsky
Soviet and Russian composer (1925—2017)
Vladimir Martynov
Soviet and Russian composer
Sergei Slonimsky
Soviet and Russian composer, musicologist (1932-2020)
Aleksandr Zatsepin
Soviet and Russian composer