Basics of Russian music is a rich folklore music, whose history dates back to the period of Kievan Rus. The dynamic development of Russian music has been under the influence of classicism in the early nineteenth century’s most important composers of this period should be Mikhail Glinka, who together with his students from the so-called. “powerful gromadki” (Alexander Borodin, Modest Mussorgsky, Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov and others) has led to the creation of Russian national music school. For the most famous works of this period include the opera: Life for the Tsar (1836), Boris Godunov (1868-1872) and Igor Knyaz (1869-1888). An important development was the establishment of the Russian Music Society (1859) by Anton and Nikolai Rubensteinów. For the most important composer of the Romantic it is widely Peter Tchaikovsky. Continue the tradition of romantic he was, inter alia, XX. Eternal composer Sergei Rachmaninoff.
For najznaczniejszych composers in the twentieth century included Alexander Scriabin, Sergei Rachmaninoff, Igor Stravinsky, Sergei Prokofiev and Dmitri Shostakovich, author VII Leningrad Symphony (1941). The world-famous musicians include: skrzypkowie David Oistrakh and Gidon Kremer, cellist and conductor Mstislav Rostropovich, pianists: Vladimir Horowitz, Sviatoslav Richter and Emil Gilels and opera singer Galina Wisniewska.
