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Also Known As Dmitry Borisovich Kabalevsky
Born December 30, 1904 • St. Petersburg • Russia
Died February 14, 1987 (aged 82) • Moscow • Russia
Notable Works “The Comedians, Op. 26”
Movement / Style nationalistic music • Russia

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Dmitry Kabalevsky, 1963.
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Aleksandr Glazunov.
Aleksandr Glazunov
Russian composer
Nikolay Tcherepnin.
Nikolay Tcherepnin
Russian composer
Mily Balakirev, portrait by Léon Bakst, c. 1900–10.
Mily Balakirev
Russian composer
Mikhail Glinka.
Mikhail Glinka
Russian composer
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Aleksandr Borodin
Russian composer and scientist
Aleksandr Dargomyzhsky, oil painting by K.Y. Makovsky.
Aleksandr Dargomyzhsky
Russian composer
Serge Koussevitzky.
Serge Koussevitzky
American conductor
Austrian composer Arnold Schoenberg in a suit, seated at a piano and holding a conductor's baton, appears to be conducting music in a wood-paneled room.
Arnold Schoenberg
American composer
Saint-Saëns, Camille
Camille Saint-Saëns
French composer
Portrait of Czech composer Antonin Dvorak with a beard, wearing a suit jacket, waistcoat, and bow tie.
Antonín Dvořák
Bohemian composer
Ralph Vaughan Williams in 1957, wearing a dark suit and bow tie, with a serious expression and a brick wall in the background.
Ralph Vaughan Williams
English composer
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Manuel de Falla
Spanish composer
Glière, Reinhold
Reinhold Glière
Soviet composer
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Russian composer
Portrait of composer Sergey Prokofiev, circa 1938, wearing round glasses, a suit, and a tie, looking slightly to the side.
Sergey Prokofiev
Russian composer
Igor Stravinsky
Igor Stravinsky
Russian composer
Dmitry Shostakovich sits at a desk by a window, looking at sheet music, wearing glasses and a suit, with papers and books arranged on the desk.
Dmitri Shostakovich
Russian composer
Sergey Rachmaninoff in profile, seated at a piano, playing with both hands on the keys.
Sergey Rachmaninoff
Russian musician
Modest Mussorgsky, portrait by Ilya Repin, 1881; in the Gosudarstvennaya Tretyakovskaya Galereya, Moscow.
Modest Mussorgsky
Russian composer
César Cui, drawing by I. Repin, 1900.
César Cui
Russian composer