World classical music cannot be imagined without the works of composers from Russia.
This country with its culture and talents has always been one of the main "engines" of art and development.
Composers from Russia combined folk music with foreign art. They managed to combine the Russian spirit and the European form.
This article presents a list of the most famous composers from Russia who have made the greatest contribution to world cultural development.
10. Alexander Scriabin
Alexander Scriabin - A very significant musician in world culture, a Russian pianist and a popular composer. He was born in 1872, passed away in 1915.
His work was distinguished by deep poetry and originality. It was considered innovative even for the beginning of the 20th century.
The period from 1903 to 1908 was the most fruitful in the life of the composer. It was then that the "Satanic", "Tragic" piano poems, the "Poem of Ecstasy", the Third Symphony and many of his other works were created.
Prometheus is another masterpiece of the composer. It was in this creation that he departed from the generally accepted tonal system.
Scriabin's harmonious language turned out to be completely updated. The composer's work greatly influenced the symphonic and piano music of the 20th century.
9. Mikael Tariverdiev
Michael Tariverdiev was born in 1931 and passed away in 1996. This is the People's Artist of the RSFSR, Russian and Soviet composer.
Tariverdiev created concerts, a symphony, chamber vocal cycles, operas, ballets, and romances. This composer wrote music for a number of performances and a large number of films (“The Irony of Fate”, “Seventeen Moments of Spring” and many others).
The birthplace of Tariverdiev is Tbilisi. The origin of Sato Akopova, the mother of the composer, was noble, but during the Civil War she began to get involved in the ideas of the Bolsheviks. Her husband was the red commander of the cavalry regiment.
Michael became the only son of Sato. Wanting to give him a better education, she took him to a music school. Then Michael got to a music school.
The musician in his youth wrote two one-act ballets. Then Tariverdiev moved to Moscow and entered the Gnesins Institute. There, the circle of his interests was finally determined: music for films, chamber vocal and opera works.
8. Isaac Dunaevsky
Soviet conductor and composer Isaac Dunaevsky was born in 1900 and passed away in 1955.
People's Artist of the RSFSR, creator of famous Soviet songs, music for films, 4 ballets and 11 operettas.
The future composer was born into a Jewish family. His musical talent manifested itself from an early age: the boy was struck by the purity of his voice, easily reproducing complex melodies.
Dunaevsky studied at a music school, but his main specialty was law. However, then the young man still chose the music.
He worked in the orchestra of the Kharkov Drama Theater, and then wrote music for one of the productions. After some time, Dunaevsky moved to Moscow, and there his talent was fully revealed.
7. Igor Stravinsky
Igor Stravinsky - composer from Russia, was a citizen of the USA and France. He was born in 1882, passed away in 1971.
His music combines a large number of styles. At the very beginning of his career, Stravinsky created works that carried a vivid imprint of Russian culture.
The new work of the composer was influenced by the New Vienna School, neoclassicism.
Stravinsky was born near St. Petersburg. At university, he studied law, studied music himself.
The composer subordinated melodies to his rules. He freely combined styles, forms and genres, so his work was always difficult to classify.
6. Sergey Rachmaninov
Sergey Rachmaninov created his own style, characterized by uniqueness and uniqueness. He combined the traditions of the Petersburg and Moscow composer schools. The composer was born in 1873 and died in 1943.
This ingenious musician and hereditary Russian nobleman began to symbolize Russian music all over the world. When the composer graduated from the Moscow Conservatory, Tchaikovsky took the exam.
For a one-act opera, created as a thesis, he put the young Rachmaninoff five with several pluses. Then this opera was recommended for production at the Bolshoi Theater.
The Moscow public quickly fell in love with a novice composer. Then Rachmaninov overtook the internal and creative crisis, but he was able to overcome it and again won the status of a famous Russian musician.
The composer conducted a lot, wrote, gave concerts in Canada, America and European countries. After the 1917 revolution, Rachmaninoff left Russia with his family.
5. Dmitry Shostakovich
Dmitry Shostakovich - Soviet pianist, composer, teacher, professor. He was born in 1906 and passed away in 1975.
Shostakovich from 13 years old studied at the Petrograd Conservatory. His thesis was the First Symphony, which the students received very well. Then this work became known outside the Soviet Union.
Shostakovich created a large number of musical works, including symphonies, ballets, operas, concerts, quartets, music for theaters and films.
His creations expressed the chronicle of the difficult events of the 20th century and the inner drama of man.
4. Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov
Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov was born in 1844 and passed away in 1908. This is a Russian musician, public figure, teacher, music critic, conductor.
This composer created symphonies, operas, spiritual, vocal music, cantatas, instrumental concerts.
Rimsky-Korsakov was born into an old noble family. He worked in the Navy, sailed to South and North America, but he was not left with a craving for the musical sphere.
When Rimsky-Korsakov returned to Russia, he began to create musical works and gained a reputation as a composer.
3. Peter Tchaikovsky
Composer Peter Tchaikovsky was born in 1840 and passed away in 1893. He was also a music critic, teacher, conductor.
In the work of this great Russian composer a large number of genres are combined. We can say that he was a psychologist, because with the help of creativity he analyzed the contradictory and complex phenomena of life.
Tchaikovsky traveled a lot, worked as a touring conductor in Europe and Russia.
2. Modest Mussorgsky
Modest Mussorgsky created works in different genres: choirs, orchestral plays, songs, romances, operas. This Russian composer was born in 1839 and passed away in 1881.
Russian national features found in his work a very vivid and original expression. The last years of Mussorgsky’s life were overshadowed by addiction to alcohol and “nervous fever”.
1. Mikhail Glinka
The work of this famous composer greatly influenced many famous musicians: for example, Tchaikovsky, Rimsky-Korsakov, Musorsky. Mikhail Glinka born in 1804 and died in 1857.
His musical works confirmed the mighty rise of national culture. This composer paid great attention to folklore, in his operas he opened the world of folk tales, epic epics.
Glinka actively traveled, lived in several European countries.