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•  Dmitri Shostakovich

  Dmitri Dmitriyevich Shostakovich (25 September 1906 – 9 August 1975) was a Russian composer of the Soviet period and one of the most celebrated composers of the 20th century. Shostakovich achieved fame in the Soviet Union under the patronage of Leon Trotsky's chief of staff Mikhail Tukhachevsky, but later had a complex and difficult relationship with the Stalinist bureaucracy. His music was officially denounced twice, in 1936 and 1948, and was periodically banned.

  

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•  Sergei Prokofiev

  Sergei Sergeyevich Prokofiev (23 April 1891 – 5 March 1953) was a Russian composer, pianist and conductor who mastered numerous musical genres and came to be admired as one of the greatest composers of the 20th century.

  

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•  Aram Khachaturian

  Aram Khachaturian (June 6, 1903 – May 1, 1978) was a Soviet-Armenian composer whose works were often influenced by Armenian folk music.

  

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•  Alexander Vasilyevich Alexandrov

  Alexander Vasilyevich Alexandrov (13 April 1883 — 8 July 1946) was a Russian Soviet composer, the founder of the Alexandrov Ensemble, who wrote the music for the national anthem of the Soviet Union, which, in 2001, became the anthem of Russia (with new lyrics). During his career, he also worked as a professor of the Moscow State Conservatory, and became a Doctor of Arts. His work was recognized by the awards of the title of People's Artist of the USSR and the Stalin Prize.

  

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•  Tolibjon Sadikov

  Tolibjon Sadikov (March 14, 1907 - 1957) was among the founders of professional music in Uzbekistan, as well as the composer of musical dramas, quartets, operas, and romances. Sadikov was born in Samarkand. From 1924-28, he studied at the Institute of Music and Choreography in Samarkand, where his teachers included leading Uzbek poets and composers, such as Sadriddun Ayni, Sergey Mironov and Viktor Uspensky.

  

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•  Sofia Gubaidulina

  Sofia Asgatovna Gubaidulina, (born October 24, 1931) is a Russian composer of half Russian, half Tatar ethnicity. Gubaidulina's music is marked by the use of unusual instrumental combinations. In In Erwartung, she combines percussion and saxophone quartet. She has written pieces for 17-stringed Japanese bass kotos and four 13-stringed Japanese kotos and Western orchestra and works for zheng.

  

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•  Tikhon Khrennikov

  Tikhon Nikolayevich Khrennikov (June 10 1913 – 14 August, 2007) was a Russian and Soviet composer, pianist, leader of the Union of Soviet Composers, and film actor, who was also known for his political activities. He wrote three symphonies, four piano concertos, two violin concertos, two cello concertos, operas, operettas, ballets, chamber music, incidental music and film music.

  

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•  Vadim Salmanov

  The composer Vadim Nikolayevich Salmanov (born in Saint Petersburg on 4 November 1912, died in Leningrad on 27 February 1978) is perhaps best known for his Symphony No. 2. His father taught him piano as a child, and at 18 young Salmanov was all set to go to the Leningrad Conservatory when he instead decided to study geology, working as a geologist until 1935, when he at last went to the Leningrad Conservatory, where he studied composition with Mikhail Gnesin.

  

  33.3%
  

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•  Tatiana Nikolayeva

  Tatiana Petrovna Nikolayeva was a Russian Soviet pianist, composer and teacher. Nikolayeva was born in Bezhitsa (now part of Bryansk) in the Bryansk district on May 4, 1924. She studied piano from the age of three. She entered the Moscow Conservatory, studying with Alexander Goldenweiser and Evgeny Golubev, and graduated in 1948. In 1950 Nikolayeva gained prominence by winning the Bach Leipzig Piano Competition, part of the bicentennial marking Bach's death.

  

  66.7%
  

  16.7%
  

  16.7%
  
•  Reinhold Glière

  Reinhold Moritzevich Glière (11 January 1875 – 23 June 1956) was a Ukrainian Soviet composer of German-Polish descent. Glière was the second son of the wind instrument maker Ernst Moritz Glier (1834-1896) from Saxony, who emigrated to Kiev and married Józefa (Josephine) Korczak (1849-1935), the daughter of his master, from Warsaw. His original name, as given in his baptism certificate, was Reinhold Ernst Glier .

  

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•  Okay (disambiguation)

  Okay is a term of approval, assent, or acknowledgment. Okay may also refer to: Okay (band), an American indie-pop band Okay (German band), a German pop group "Okay" (song), a song by Nivea Okay, Oklahoma, U.S. Okay (film), a 2002 Danish film starring Paprika Steen

  

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•  Kaua'i 'Oo

  

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•  Beer in Russia

  Russian beer (Russian пиво – Pivo): in Russia, beer is number two alcoholic drink after Vodka, but is seen by many as a healthier almost non-alcoholic alternative (such that it is the number one alcoholic drink in the always more westward leaning St. Petersburg, consumption 95 l. per capita, 2005). Unlike the Germanic language speaking peoples (i.e.

  

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•  Michael Richard Daniell Foot TD

  

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