List of Russian composers
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This is a list of composers of music from Russia:
- The Five, or The Mighty Handful, a collective of Russian Romantic composers
- Alexander Borodin (1833-1887)
- César Cui (1835-1918)
- Mily Balakirev (1837-1910)
- Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov (1844-1908), perhaps best known for The Flight of the Bumblebee
- Modest Mussorgsky (1839-1881), perhaps best known for Pictures at an Exhibition
- Mikhail Glinka (1804-1857), one of the first significant Russian composers
- Pyotr 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
- 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 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 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 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
- Sergei Prokofiev (1891-1953), 20th century neoclassical composer
- 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), the 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.
- Nikolai Kapustin (born 1937) is a Russian composer and pianist who uses jazz idioms set amid formal classical structures in his compositions.
- Yury 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
- Evgeni Kostitsyn (1963- ), 21st century composer, originator of synchronous music and cubist music
- Andrei Krylov (1961- ), 20th and 21st century composer, wrote mostly works for classical guitar, flute and keyboards
- Dmitry Lubenskiy (1979- ), 21st century film and cartoons music composer.
