Классическая музыка и высокая культура
Композиторы, дирижёры, артисты балета и оперные певцы русской классической традиции.
Русская классическая культура — композиторы, дирижёры и прежде всего балет — переформатировала мировое искусство. От «Русских балетов», поразивших Париж, до виртуозов, наполнивших западные концертные залы после эмиграции, эта традиция остаётся одним из самых зримых мировых экспортов цивилизации. Эта категория документирует её деятелей.
Аарон Копленд
Brooklyn-born voice of the American heartland
Александр Глазунов
St. Petersburg's last Romantic, exiled in Paris
Александр Годунов
Bolshoi's star who chose freedom over the Bolshoi.
Даниил Трифонов
Nizhny Novgorod piano prodigy called the most complete musician of his generation
Дмитрий Тёмкин
Born in Ukraine, composed the soundtrack of Hollywood's golden age
Ефрем Зимбалист
Rostov violin virtuoso who became director of the Curtis Institute and shaped American classical music
Евгений Кисин
Moscow piano prodigy who debuted at Carnegie Hall at 19 and never looked back
Джордж Баланчин
The Georgian-Russian who reinvented ballet for America
Джордж Гершвин
Brooklyn-born son of Odessa, soundtrack of America
Гидон Кремер
Riga-born violin virtuoso who defected from the USSR and became a champion of new music
Григорий Пятигорский
Born in Dnipro, became the greatest cellist of the 20th century after fleeing the Bolsheviks
Григорий Соколов
Leningrad pianist who wins Tchaikovsky Competition at 16 and refuses to record — only live performance
Игорь Левит
Nizhny Novgorod-born pianist who became Germany's most politically outspoken classical star
Игорь Стравинский
Born near St. Petersburg, composed The Rite of Spring and changed music forever
Ирвинг Берлин
The immigrant who wrote America's anthem
Яша Хейфец
Born in Vilnius, became the greatest violinist of the 20th century — possibly of all time
Кирилл Петренко
Omsk-born conductor who became Chief Conductor of the Berlin Philharmonic — the world's greatest orchestra
Лев Бакст
Born in Grodno, designed the Ballets Russes costumes that made Art Nouveau fashionable across the world
Леонард Бернстайн
America's maestro, born of the Pale's diaspora
Леопольд Ауэр
Hungarian-born violin teacher who trained Heifetz, Milstein and Zimbalist — the greatest pedagogue in history
Лера Ауэрбах
Chelyabinsk-born composer and pianist who became one of the most performed living composers in the world
Марта Аргерих
Buenos Aires piano legend whose mother has Russian-Jewish roots — the greatest living pianist
Максим Венгеров
Novosibirsk violin prodigy who became one of the greatest violinists of his generation
Майя Плисецкая
The greatest Soviet ballerina — born in Moscow, died in Germany, danced Dying Swan until age 70
Михаил Фокин
Born in St. Petersburg — the choreographer who reformed ballet and created The Dying Swan for Pavlova
Миша Майский
Riga-born cellist who studied with Rostropovich and became one of the most celebrated soloists alive
Мстислав Ростропович
Born in Baku — the greatest cellist in history, who played Bach as the Berlin Wall fell
Натан Мильштейн
Born in Odessa, trained by Auer and Ysaÿe — one of the greatest violinists of the 20th century
Николай Гедда
Son of a Russian Don Cossack — became the most versatile operatic tenor of the 20th century
Николай Медтнер
Moscow composer and pianist of German-Russian heritage — Rachmaninoff called him the greatest living composer
Рудольф Нуриев
The Soviet defector who conquered the world's stages
Семён Бычков
Born in Leningrad — chief conductor of the Czech Philharmonic and one of the world's great maestros
Сергей Кусевицкий
Born in Vyshny Volochyok — the conductor who made the Boston Symphony Orchestra the greatest in America
Серж Лифарь
Born in Kyiv — the most important ballet director in 20th-century France, built the Paris Opera Ballet
Сергей Прокофьев
Born in Donetsk — composed Peter and the Wolf, Romeo and Juliet, and returned to Stalin's USSR to his doom
Сергей Рахманинов
Born near Novgorod — the composer whose Second Piano Concerto is the most romantic music ever written
Татьяна Лескова
Born in Paris to Russian émigré parents — became the mother of Brazilian classical ballet
Теодор Курентзис
Athens-born conductor trained in St. Petersburg who became one of classical music's most controversial and brilliant maestros
Туган Сохиев
Born in Vladikavkaz — chief conductor of the Bolshoi Theatre and the Orchestre National du Capitole de Toulouse
Владимир Ашкенази
Born in Gorky — the most recorded classical pianist in history, who defected and became an Icelandic citizen
Владимир Горовиц
Born in Berdychiv, Ukraine — the greatest pianist of the 20th century, who fled Russia with Nathan Milstein in 1925
Владимир Юровский
Moscow-born conductor who leads the Bavarian State Opera and London Philharmonic — the heir to the German conducting tradition
Владимир Спиваков
Born in Ufa to a family of musicians — founded the Moscow Virtuosi and became Russia's most beloved conductor
Иегуди Менухин
His parents came from Gomel and Crimea — he became the greatest violinist of his generation and a human rights champion