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x Saint Petersburg Angliyskaya Enbankment SPb Dmitri Shostakovich   Symphony No. 7
Saint Petersburg (Russian: Санкт-Петербу́рг​ (help·info), tr.: Sankt-Peterburg, Russian pronunciation: [sankt pʲɪtʲɪrˈburk]) is a city and a federal subject (a federal city) of Russia located on the Neva River at the head of the Gulf of Finland on...
x Baron von Dürnitz   Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart   Piano Sonata No. 6  
x Auguste Tolbeque   Camille Saint-Saëns   Cello Concerto No. 1
Auguste Tolbeque (1830 – March 8, 1919) was a French 'cellist who composed etudes for his instrument. He taught at the Marseille Conservatory from 1865-1871, and then joined the Concerts du Conservertoire orchestra in Paris. Tolbeque premiered...
x Mstislav Rostropovich Mstislav Rostropovich 1978 Dmitri Shostakovich   Cello Concerto No. 2
Mstislav Leopoldovich Rostropovich KBE (Russian: Мстисла́в Леопо́льдович Ростропо́вич, Mstislav Leopol'dovič Rostropovič, pronounced [rəstrɐˈpɔvʲɪtɕ]) (March 27, 1927 – April 27, 2007), known to close friends as “Slava,” was a Russian cellist and...
Dmitri Shostakovich   Cello Concerto No. 1
Sergei Prokofiev   Symphony-Concerto in E minor
Benjamin Britten   Cello Symphony
x Joseph Franz Weigl   Joseph Haydn   Cello Concerto No. 1 in C
Joseph Franz Weigl (1740 - 1820) was the principal cellist in the orchestra of the Esterházy family. He played under the directorship of Joseph Haydn, who also was godfather to the cellist's son, and it is thought that Haydn wrote his cello concerto...
x Raya Garbousova   Samuel Barber   Cello Concerto
Raya Garbousova (Russian: Ра́я Га́рбузова; 25 September 1909, Tbilisi, Georgia, Russian Empire - January 28, 1997, DeKalb, Illinois, United States) was a cellist and teacher. According to the biography contained in the program booklet for the 1997...
x Joseph Haydn Portrait by Thomas Hardy, 1792 Ludwig van Beethoven   Piano Sonata No. 3
(Franz) Joseph Haydn (March 31, 1732 – May 31, 1809) was an Austrian composer. He was one of the most important, prolific and prominent composers of the classical period. He is often called the "Father of the Symphony" and "Father of the String...
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart   String Quartet No. 14
Ludwig van Beethoven   Piano Sonata No. 2
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart   String Quartet No. 19
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart   Haydn Quartets
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x Countess Emilie de Perthuis   Frédéric Chopin   Piano Sonata No. 3 in B Minor  
x Alexander I of Russia Portrait of Alexander I in the Military Gallery of the Winter Palace. Alexander made the song Russia's anthem Ludwig van Beethoven   Violin Sonata No. 7
Alexander I of Russia (Russian: Александр I Павлович, Aleksandr I Pavlovich) (23 December 1777 – 19 November 1825), also known as Alexander the Blessed (Russian: Александр Благословленный, Aleksandr Blagoslovlennyi) served as Emperor of Russia from...
Ludwig van Beethoven   Violin Sonata No. 6
Ludwig van Beethoven   Violin Sonata No. 8
x John Ireland   Arnold Bax   Symphony No. 1
John Nicholson Ireland (13 August 1879 – 12 June 1962) was an English composer. John Ireland was born in Bowdon, near Altrincham, Manchester, into a family of Scottish descent and some cultural distinction. His father, Alexander Ireland, a publisher...
x Louis Napoleon Bonaparte The Emperor Napoleon in His Study at the Tuileries, by Jacques-Louis David, 1812 Ludwig van Beethoven Prince Franz Joseph Maximillian Lobkowiz Symphony No. 3
Napoleon Bonaparte (French: Napoléon Bonaparte French pronunciation: [napoleɔ̃ bɔnɑpaʁt]; 15 August 1769 – 5 May 1821) later known as Emperor Napoleon I, and previously Napoleone di Buonaparte, was a military and political leader of France whose...
x Prince Franz Joseph Maximillian Lobkowiz   Ludwig van Beethoven Louis Napoleon Bonaparte Symphony No. 3  
x Marie d'Agoult Marie d'Agoult Frédéric Chopin    
Marie Catherine Sophie de Flavigny, Vicomtesse de Flavigny (December 31, 1805 - March 5, 1876), was a French author, known also by her married name and title, Marie, Comtesse d'Agoult, and by her pen name, Daniel Stern. She was born in Frankfurt am...
Frédéric Chopin    
x Franz Liszt Franz Liszt Frédéric Chopin    
Franz Liszt (Hungarian: Liszt Ferenc, pronounced [list ˈfɛrɛnts]) (October 22, 1811 – July 31, 1886) was a world famous Hungarian composer, virtuoso pianist and teacher. Liszt became renowned throughout Europe for his great skill as a performer...
Richard Wagner   Lohengrin
Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov   Piano Concerto
Frédéric Chopin    
x Beethoven Quartet   Dmitri Shostakovich   Piano Quintet
The Beethoven Quartet (Russian: Струнный квартет имени Бетховена, Strunnyĭ kvartet imeni Betkhovena) was founded between 1922 and 1923 by graduates of the Moscow Conservatory: violinists Dmitri Tsyganov and Vasily Shirinsky, violist Vadim Borisovsky...
Dmitri Shostakovich   String Quartet No. 5
x Tatiana Nikolayeva   Dmitri Shostakovich   24 Preludes and Fugues
Tatiana Petrovna Nikolayeva (Russian: Татьяна Пeтрoвнa Николаева, Tat'jana Petrovna Nikolaeva; May 4, 1924–November 22, 1993) was a Russian Soviet pianist, composer and teacher. Nikolayeva was born in Bezhitsa in the Bryansk district on 4 May 1924....
x Vissarion Shebalin Vissarion Shebalin Dmitri Shostakovich   String Quartet No. 2
Vissarion Yakovlevich Shebalin (Russian: Виссарион Яковлевич Шебалин, June 11, 1902, Omsk–May 29, 1963) was a Russian composer. His parents were school teachers. He studied in the musical college in Omsk. He was 20 years old when following the...
x Jean Sibelius Jean sibelius Arnold Bax   Symphony No. 5
Jean Sibelius ( pronunciation (help·info)) (8 December 1865 – 20 September 1957) was a Finnish composer of the later Romantic period whose music played an important role in the formation of the Finnish national identity. The core of Sibelius's...
x Maxim Shostakovich   Dmitri Shostakovich   Piano Concerto No. 2
Maxim Dmitrievich Shostakovich (born Leningrad on May 10, 1938) is a Russian conductor and pianist. He was the second child of Dmitri Shostakovich and Nina Varzar. Since 1975, he has conducted and popularised many of his father's lesser-known works....
x Ivan Sollertinsky   Dmitri Shostakovich   Piano Trio No. 2
Ivan Ivanovich Sollertinsky (1902 - February 11, 1944) was a Russian polymath of the Soviet period. He was an expert in theatre and Romance languages, but is best known for his musical career. He was a professor at the Leningrad Conservatory, as...
x Franz Joseph I of Austria Fjoseph1 Anton Bruckner   Symphony No. 8
Franz Joseph I (-German, I. Ferenc József in Hungarian, in English Francis Joseph I Charles, see the name in other languages) (18 August 1830 – 21 November 1916), Emperor of Austria, reigned from 1848 until 1916 and King of Hungary from 1867 until...
x Evgeny Mravinsky   Dmitri Shostakovich   Symphony No. 8
Yevgeny Aleksandrovich Mravinsky (Russian: Евгений Александрович Мравинский, Evgenij Aleksandrovič Mravinskij) (4 June [O.S. 22 May] 1903 – 19 January 1988) was a Russian conductor. Mravinsky was born in Saint Petersburg. His father died in 1918,...
x Michael Mullinar   Ralph Vaughan Williams   Symphony No. 6  
x Hans Richter HansRichter1876 Antonín Dvořák   Symphony No. 6
Hans Richter (János Richter) (4 April 1843 in Raab, Austria, died 5 December 1916 in Bayreuth) was an Austrian conductor. Richter studied at the Vienna Conservatory with a particular interest in the horn, and developed his conducting career at...
Edward Elgar   Symphony No. 1
x Wilhelm Stenhammar Wilhelm Stenhammar Jean Sibelius   Symphony No. 6
Carl Wilhelm Eugen Stenhammar (February 7, 1871 – November 20, 1927), was a Swedish composer, conductor and pianist. Stenhammar was born in Stockholm, where he received his first musical education. He then went to Berlin to further his studies in...
x Adrian Boult Adrian Boult Arnold Bax   Symphony No. 6
Sir Adrian Cedric Boult CH (8 April 1889 – 22 February 1983) was an English conductor. Boult was born in Chester and educated at Westminster School and Christ Church, Oxford. As a schoolboy, he attended Sir Henry Wood's Saturday afternoon and Sunday...
x Ian Craft   Robert Simpson   Symphony No. 6  
x Paul Sacher   Hans Werner Henze   Symphony no. 10
Paul Sacher (28 April 1906 – 26 May 1999) was a Swiss conductor, patron and impresario. He studied under Felix Weingartner among others. In 1926 he founded the Basel Chamber Orchestra (Basler Kammerorchester) to play works written before the...
Frank Martin   Petite symphonie concertante
x Vernon Handley   Robert Simpson   Symphony No. 10
Vernon George "Tod" Handley CBE (11 November 1930 – 10 September 2008) was a British conductor. He was born of Welsh parents into a musical family in Enfield, London. He acquired the nickname "Tod" because his feet were turned in at his birth, which...
x Anatoliy Brandukov Tchaikovsky (right) with Anatoly Brandukov, to whom he dedicated the Pezzo capriccioso. Sergei Rachmaninoff   Cello Sonata
Anatoliy Andreyevich Brandukov (Russian: Анато́лий Андре́евич Брандуко́в) (January 6 [O.S. December 25, 1858] 1859 – February 16, 1930) was a Russian cellist who premiered many cello pieces of prominent composers including Pyotr Tchaikovsky and...
x Leopold Auer Leopold Auer Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky   Violin Concerto
Leopold Auer (In Hungarian: Auer Lipót), (June 7, 1845 – July 15, 1930) was a Hungarian violinist, teacher, conductor and composer. Auer was born in Veszprém in a Jewish household. He first studied violin with a local concertmaster. He later...
Alexander Glazunov   Violin Concerto
x Adolph Brodsky   Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky   Violin Concerto
Adolph Davidovich Brodsky (Russian: Адольф Давидович Бродский, Adolf Davidovič Brodskij; 2 April [O.S. 21 March] 1851 - January 22, 1929) was a Russian violinist. He was born in Taganrog on the Sea of Azov. His grandfather and father were also...
x Franz von Vecsey Vecsey Jean Sibelius   Violin Concerto
Franz von Vecsey (Hungarian: Vecsey Ferenc, March 23, 1893 – April 5, 1935) was a Hungarian violinist and composer. He was born in Budapest and began his violin studies with his father, Lajos Vecsey, and at the age of eight he entered the studio of...
x Franz Clement   Ludwig van Beethoven   Violin Concerto
Franz Joseph Clement (1780–1842) was an Austrian violinist, pianist, composer, conductor of Vienna's Theater an der Wien and friend of Ludwig van Beethoven. A talented violinist from a young age, he was known for his extraordinary ability to play...
x Joseph Joachim Joseph Joachim Johannes Brahms   Violin Concerto
Joseph Joachim (June 28, 1831 – August 15, 1907) (pronounced /ˈjoʊɑːxɪːm/) was a Hungarian violinist, conductor, composer and teacher. He is regarded as one of the most influential violinists of all time. Joseph Joachim was born in Kittsee (Kopčany ...
Robert Schumann   Violin Concerto
    F-A-E Sonata
Johannes Brahms Robert Hausmann Double Concerto
x Jascha Heifetz Heifetz William Walton   Violin Concerto
Jascha Heifetz (English pronunciation: /ˈhaɪfɪts/) was a Jewish violin virtuoso born in Lithuania (February 2 [O.S. January 20] 1901 – December 10, 1987), and is widely regarded as one of the twentieth century's preeminent violinists and one of the...
x Lynnette Seah Lynnette Seah Bernard Tan   Violin Concerto
Lynnette Seah Mei Tsing (simplified Chinese: 佘美幸; pinyin: Shé Měixìng) is an internationally acclaimed Singaporean violinist serving as co-leader of the Singapore Symphony Orchestra (SSO) as the only musician to have performed full-time with the SSO...
x Zoltán Székely   Béla Bartók   Violin Concerto No. 2
Zoltán Székely (December 8, 1903, Hungary – October 5, 2001, Canada) was a violinist and composer. He studied violin and composition at the Franz Liszt Academy in Budapest. He was a friend of Béla Bartók and was the one to request the composition of...
x Fritz Kreisler Fritz Kreisler (circa 1938) Edward Elgar   Violin Concerto
Fritz Kreisler (February 2, 1875 – January 29, 1962) was an Austrian-born violinist and composer; one of the most famous violinists of his day. He is noted for his sweet tone and expressive phrasing. Like many great violinists of his generation, he...
Sergei Rachmaninoff   Variations on a Theme of Corelli
x Stefi Geyer   Béla Bartók   Violin Concerto No. 1
Stefi Geyer (June 28, 1888 in Budapest – December 11, 1956 in Zurich) was a Hungarian violinist. She was the daughter of Josef Geyer, a police doctor who played the violin himself. When she was 3 years old she started playing the violin, with...
x David Oistrakh Фото з автографом Dmitri Shostakovich   Violin Concerto No. 1
David Fyodorovich Oistrakh (Russian: Давид Фёдорович Ойстрах), David Fiodorovič Ojstrakh; September 30 [O.S. September 17] 1908 – October 24, 1974) was a Russian violin virtuoso who made many recordings and was the dedicatee of numerous violin works...
Dmitri Shostakovich   Violin Concerto No. 2
Sergei Prokofiev   Violin Sonata No. 1
Aram Khachaturian   Violin Concerto
x Saschko Gawriloff   György Ligeti   Violin Concerto
Saschko Gawriloff (born October 20, 1929) is a German violinist and violin teacher. Gawriloff was born in Leipzig and received his first violin lessons from his father, who was a violinist in the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra. He then studied with...
x Pablo de Sarasate Pablo de Sarasate Camille Saint-Saëns   Violin Concerto No. 3
Pablo Martín Melitón de Sarasate y Navascués (Spanish pronunciation: [ˈpablo saɾaˈsate], March 10, 1844 – September 20, 1908, was a Spanish violinist and composer of the Romantic period. Pablo Sarasate was born in Pamplona, Spain, the son of an...
Henryk Wieniawski   Violin Concerto No. 2
Max Bruch   Violin Concerto No. 2
x Alma Mahler Alma Mahler Erich Wolfgang Korngold   Violin Concerto
Alma Maria Mahler-Werfel (born Schindler) (31 August 1879 – 11 December 1964) was a Viennese-born socialite well known in her youth for her beauty and vivacity. She became the wife, successively, of composer Gustav Mahler, architect Walter Gropius,...
Benjamin Britten   Nocturne for tenor, 7 obligato instruments & strings
x Frederick William IV of Prussia Frederick William IV Henryk Wieniawski   Violin Concerto No. 1
King Frederick William IV of Prussia (German: Friedrich Wilhelm IV von Preußen; 15 October 1795 - 2 January 1861), the eldest son and successor of Frederick William III of Prussia, reigned as King of Prussia from 1840 to 1861. He was in personal...
Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy   Hebrides Overture
x Józef Hofmann Metropolitan opera 1937 Sergei Rachmaninoff   Piano Concerto No. 3
Józef Kazimierz Hofmann (also seen as Josef Casimir Hofmann) (20 January 1876 – 16 February 1957) was a Polish-American virtuoso pianist and composer. Many connoisseurs consider him one of the greatest pianists of all time. Józef Hofmann was born in...
x Nikolai Dahl   Sergei Rachmaninoff   Piano Concerto No. 2
Nikolai Vladimirovich Dahl (Russian: Николай Владимирович Даль, 1860 - 1939) was a Russian physician. He graduated from the Moscow University in 1887, and was a student in France of famous Dr Charcot who initiated a therapy by hypnotizing his...
x Ferdinand Hiller Ferdinand Hiller2 Robert Schumann   Piano Concerto in A minor
Ferdinand (von) Hiller (24 October 1811 – 11 May 1885) was a German composer, conductor, writer and music-director. Ferdinand Hiller was born to a wealthy Jewish family in Frankfurt am Main, where his father Justus (originally Isaac Hildesheim) was...
x Hans von Bülow Hans von buelow Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky   Piano Concerto No. 1
Hans Guido Freiherr von Bülow (January 8, 1830 – February 12, 1894) was a German conductor, virtuoso pianist, and composer of the Romantic era. He was one of the most famous conductors of the 19th century, and his activity was critical for...
Johannes Brahms   Violin Sonata No. 3 in D minor
Franz Liszt   Beethoven Symphonies
x Eduard Marxsen   Johannes Brahms   Piano Concerto No. 2
Eduard Marxsen (23 July 1806 – 18 November 1887), was a German pianist, composer and teacher. He was a pupil of Ignaz von Seyfried, Simon Sechter, Johann Heinrich Clasing, and Karl Maria von Bocklet. He wrote about 70 works, including an orchestral...
x Louis Ferdinand, Prince of Prussia Prince Louis Ferdinand with his family Ludwig van Beethoven   Piano Concerto No. 3
Louis Ferdinand, Prince of Prussia (English: Louis Ferdinand Victor Edward Albert Michael Hubert, Prince of Prussia) (German: Ludwig Ferdinand Viktor Eduard Albert Michael Hubertus, Prinz von Preussen) (November 9, 1907 – September 26, 1994), a...
x Nikolai Grigoryevich Rubinstein Nikolai Rubinstein Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky   Piano Concerto No. 2
Nikolai Grigoryevich Rubinstein (14 June [O.S. 2 June] 1835 – 23 March [O.S. 11 March] 1881) was a Russian pianist and composer. He was the younger brother of Anton Rubinstein and a close friend of Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky. Born to Jewish parents in...
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky   Piano Trio
x Hans Bronsart von Schellendorff Coat of arms of the German family Bronsart von Schellendorff Franz Liszt   Piano Concerto No. 2
Hans Bronsart von Schellendorff (February 11, 1830–November 3, 1913) was a classical musician and composer who studied under Franz Liszt. (Some sources write Schellendorf with one F, but the correct German surname of this family is written with...
x Alexander Siloti Silotitchaikovsky Sergei Rachmaninoff   Piano Concerto No. 1
Alexander Ilyich Siloti (also Ziloti, Russian: Алекса́ндр Ильи́ч Зило́ти, Aleksandr Iljič Ziloti) (9 October 1863, near Kharkiv - 8 December 1945, New York) was a Russian pianist, conductor and composer. (Spelling note: A truer transliteration of...
x Nikolai Medtner Skazka Sergei Rachmaninoff   Piano Concerto No. 4
Nikolai Karlovich Medtner (Russian: Никола́й Ка́рлович Ме́тнер, Nikoláj Kárlovič Métner) (5 January 1880 [O.S. 24 December 1879] –13 November 1951) was a Russian composer and pianist. A younger contemporary of Sergei Rachmaninoff and Alexander...
x Sviatoslav Richter Sviatoslav Richter Sergei Prokofiev   Piano Sonata No. 7
Sviatoslav Teofilovich Richter (Russian: Святослав Теофилович Рихтер, Ukrainian: Святослав Теофілович Ріхтер Svjatoslav Teofilovič Rikhter) (March 20 [O.S. March 7] 1915 – August 1, 1997) was a Soviet pianist, and was well known for the depth of his...
x Natalie Wood Natalie Wood and James Dean in a screenshot from Rebel Without a Cause     Brainstorm
Natalie Wood (born Natalia Zacharenko; Cyrillic: Наталья Николаевна Захаренко; July 20, 1938 – November 29, 1981) was an American actress. Following her film debut in 1943, Wood became a successful child actor in such films as Miracle on 34th Street...
x Anthony Quinn     Avenging Angelo
Anthony Quinn (April 21, 1915 – June 3, 2001) was a Mexican-American actor, as well as a painter and writer. He starred in numerous critically acclaimed and commercially successful films, including Zorba the Greek, Lawrence of Arabia, and Federico...
x Edith Head Edith Head on the cover of the book The Life and Times of Edith Head by David Chierichetti     Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid
Edith Head (October 28, 1897 – October 24, 1981) was an American costume designer who had a long career in Hollywood that garnered eight Academy Awards—more than any other woman in history. She was born Edith Claire Posener in Searchlight, Nevada,...
x Derek Meddings       GoldenEye
Derek Meddings (January 15, 1931 – September 10, 1995) was a British television and cinema special effects expert, initially noted for his work on the "Supermarionation" television puppet series produced by Gerry Anderson. Both Meddings' parents had...