List of Russian composers
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This is a list of composers from Russia:
- Mikhail Glinka (1804-1857), one of the first significant Russian composers
- Aleksandr Borodin (1833-1887), Romantic composer and chemist, member of The Mighty Handful
- Cesar Cui (1835-1918), Romantic composer, member of The Mighty Handful
- Mily Balakirev (1837-1910), Romantic composer, member of The Mighty Handful
- Modest Mussorgsky (1839-1881), Romantic composer, member of The Mighty Handful, wrote Pictures at an Exhibition
- Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky (1840-1893), influential Romantic composer, famous for his ballets (The Nutcracker, Swan Lake), his Romeo and Juliet Overture-Fantasy, and the 1812 Overture
- Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov (1844-1908), Romantic composer, member of The Mighty Handful, known for "The Flight of the Bumblebee"
- Aleksandr Taneyev (1850-1918), Romantic era nationalist composer
- 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
- Alexander Glazunov (1865-1936), late Romantic composer influenced by Richard Wagner and Franz Liszt
- 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
- Reinhold Gliere (1875-1956), composer who wrote pieces in a romantic style well into the 20th century
- Igor Stravinsky (1882-1971), 20th century primitivist, neoclassical, and jazz composer, known for his early ballet The Rite of Spring
- Sergei Prokofiev (1891-1953), 20th century neoclassical composer
- Dmitri Kabalevsky (1904-1987), 20th century composer
- Dmitri Shostakovich (1906-1975), 20th century composer, wrote ten symphonies
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