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 * John Adams - Alkan - Arensky - Malcolm Arnold - Brahms - Chopin - Fauré - Liszt - Prokofiev - Rachmaninoff - Ravel - Rimsky-Korsakov - Schumann - Shostakovich - Sibelius - Richard Strauss - Tchaikovsky

Aino Ackté
 * Jean Sibelius: Luonnotar, Op. 70

Marie d'Agoult
 * Frédéric Chopin: 12 Études, Op. 25

Princess Anna of Hesse and by Rhine
 * Johannes Brahms: Piano Quintet in F minor, Op. 34

Jelly d'Arányi
 * Maurice Ravel: Tzigane

Anton Arensky
 * Sergei Rachmaninoff: Morceaux de fantaisie, Op. 3 (includes Prelude in C-sharp minor)

Malcolm Arnold's 3 children Katherine, Robert and Edward
 * Malcolm Arnold: Symphony No. 7, Op. 113

Louis Aubert
 * Maurice Ravel: Valses nobles et sentimentales

Theodor Avé-Lallemant
 * Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 5 in E minor, Op. 64

Mily Balakirev
 * Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky: Romeo and Juliet, overture-fantasy
 * Tchaikovsky: Fatum, Op. posth. 77

Emma Bardac
 * Gabriel Fauré: La bonne chanson, Op. 61

Beethoven Quartet
 * Dmitri Shostakovich: Piano Quintet in G minor, Op. 57
 * Shostakovich: String Quartet No. 3 in F major, Op. 73
 * Shostakovich: String Quartet No. 5 in B-flat major, Op. 92

William Sterndale Bennett
 * Robert Schumann: Symphonic Studies, Op. 13

Charles-Wilfrid de Bériot
 * Maurice Ravel: Rapsodie espagnole

Theodor Billroth
 * Johannes Brahms: Two String Quartets, Op. 51

Karl Böhm
 * Richard Strauss: Daphne, Op. 82

Vadim Borisovsky, violist of the Beethoven Quartet
 * Dmitri Shostakovich: String Quartet No. 13 in B-flat minor, Op. 138

Alexander Borodin
 * César Cui: Act I of Mlada (ded. Memory of Borodin, Mussorgsky and Rimsky-Korsakov)

Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra
 * Malcolm Arnold: Symphony No. 2, Op. 40 (co-dedicated to Charles Groves)

Anatoliy Brandukov
 * Sergei Rachmaninoff: Cello Sonata in G minor, Op. 19
 * Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky: Pezzo capriccioso, Op. 62

Benjamin Britten
 * Dmitri Shostakovich: Symphony No. 14, Op. 135

Adolph Brodsky
 * Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky: Violin Concerto in D major, Op. 35 (original dedication refused by Leopold Auer)

Hans von Bülow
 * Johannes Brahms: Violin Sonata No. 3 in D minor, Op. 108
 * Franz Liszt: Années de pèlerinage - Troisième année, No. 5: Sunt lacrymae rerum/En mode hongrois
 * Liszt: Hungarian Rhapsody No. 14
 * Richard Strauss: Aus Italien, Op. 16
 * Strauss: Burleske (later re-dedicated to Eugen d'Albert)
 * Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky: Piano Concerto No. 1 in B-flat minor. Op. 23

Willy Burmester
 * Jean Sibelius: Violin Concerto in D minor, Op. 47 (re-dedicated to Franz von Vecsey)

Michel-Dimitri Calvocoressi
 * Maurice Ravel: "Alborada del gracioso" from Miroirs

Princess Charlotte of Württemberg (as Grand Duchess Elena Pavlovna of Russia)
 * Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky: Vakula the Smith (revised as Cherevichki)

Frédéric Chopin
 * Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov: Pan Voyevoda
 * Robert Schumann: Kreisleriana, Op. 16

Bernard Crocé-Spinelli
 * George Enescu: Romanian Rhapsody No. 1 in A major

Claire Croiza
 * Gabriel Fauré: "Dans la nymphée" from Le jardin clos, Op. 106

Carl Czerny
 * Franz Liszt: Transcendental Études

Nikolai Dahl
 * Sergei Rachmaninoff: Piano Concerto No. 2 in C minor, Op. 18

Eugen d'Albert
 * Strauss: Burleske (originally dedicated to Hans von Bülow)

Karl Davydov
 * Anton Arensky: Piano Trio No. 1 in D minor, Op. 32
 * Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky: Capriccio Italien, Op. 45

Vladimir Davydov
 * Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 6 in B minor, Pathétique, Op. 74

Maurice Delage
 * Maurice Ravel: "La vallée des cloches" from Miroirs

Josef Dessauer
 * Frédéric Chopin: Polonaises, Op. 26

Louis Diémer
 * Gabriel Fauré: Barcarolle No. 12 in E-flat major, Op. 106 bis
 * Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky:  Piano Concerto No. 3 in E-flat major. Op. posth. 75

Béni Egressy
 * Franz Liszt: Hungarian Rhapsody No. 10

Józef Elsner
 * Frédéric Chopin: Piano Sonata No. 1 in C minor, Op. 4

Theodor Wilhelm Engelmann
 * Johannes Brahms: String Quartet No. 3 in B-flat major, Op. 67

Max Erdmannsdörfer
 * Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky: Orchestral Suite No. 3 in G major, Op. 55

Heinrich Wilhelm Ernst
 * Franz Liszt: Hungarian Rhapsody No. 9

Léon-Paul Fargue
 * Maurice Ravel: "Noctuelles" from Miroirs

Gabriel Fauré
 * Maurice Ravel: Jeux d'eau
 * Ravel: String Quartet in F major

Leó Festetics
 * Franz Liszt: Hungarian Rhapsody No. 3, Hungarian Rhapsody No. 13

Wilhelm Fitzenhagen
 * Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky: Variations on a Rococo Theme, Op. 33

Ernest Fleischmann
 * John Adams: Hallelujah Junction

Julian Fontana
 * Frédéric Chopin: Fantaisie-Impromptu in C-sharp minor, Op. 66
 * Chopin: Polonaises, Op. 40

Auguste Franchomme
 * Frédéric Chopin: Cello Sonata in G minor, Op. 65

Frederick II of Prussia, "The Great"
 * Johann Sebastian Bach: The Musical Offering

Niels Gade
 * Robert Schumann: Piano Trio No. 3 in G minor, Op. 110

Josef Gänsbacher
 * Johannes Brahms: Cello Sonata No. 1 in E minor, Op. 38

André Gedalge
 * Maurice Ravel: Piano Trio in A minor

Tatyana Glivenko
 * Dmitri Shostakovich: Piano Trio No. 1 in C minor, Op. 8

Leopold Godowsky
 * Sergei Rachmaninoff: Polka de W.R.

Élisabeth, Countess Greffulhe
 * Gabriel Fauré: Pavane in F-sharp minor, Op. 50

Edvard Grieg
 * Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky: Hamlet, overture-fantasia, Op. 67a

Julius Otto Grimm
 * Johannes Brahms: 4 Ballades, Op. 10

Charles Groves
 * Malcolm Arnold: Symphony No. 2, Op. 40 (co-dedicated to Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra)

Eduard Hanslick
 * Johannes Brahms: Sixteen Waltzes for piano, four hands, Op. 39

Robert Hausmann
 * Johannes Brahms: Cello Sonata No. 2 in F major, Op. 99

Elisabeth von Herzogenberg
 * Johannes Brahms: Rhapsodies, Op. 79

Ferdinand Hiller
 * Frédéric Chopin: Nocturnes, Op. 15
 * Robert Schumann: Piano Concerto in A minor, Op. 54

Josef Hofmann
 * Sergei Rachmaninoff: Piano Concerto No. 3 in D minor, Op. 30

Countess Ida von Hohenthal of Leipzig
 * Johannes Brahms: Piano Sonata No. 3 in F minor, Op. 5

Joseph Joachim
 * Johannes Brahms, Robert Schumann, and Albert Dietrich: F-A-E Sonata
 * Brahms: Piano Sonata No. 1 in C major, Op. 1
 * Brahms: Violin Concerto in D major, Op. 77
 * Franz Liszt: Hungarian Rhapsody No. 12

Friedrich Kalkbrenner
 * Frédéric Chopin: Piano Concerto No. 1 in E minor, Op. 11

Joseph Christoph Kessler
 * Frédéric Chopin: 24 Preludes, Op. 28

Alina Khvostova
 * Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky: None but the lonely heart, Op. 6/6

Karl Klindworth
 * Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky: Piano Sonata in G major, Op. 37

Max Klinger
 * Johannes Brahms: Vier ernste Gesänge

Grand Duke Konstantin Nikolayevich of Russia
 * Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky: The Oprichnik

Serge Koussevitzky
 * Sergei Prokofiev: Symphony No. 2 in D minor, Op. 40

Clemens Krauss
 * Richard Strauss: Friedenstag, Op. 81 (co-dedicated to his wife Viorica Ursuleac)

Viktor Kubatsky
 * Dmitri Shostakovich: Cello Sonata in D minor, Op. 40

Charles Lamoureux
 * Emmanuel Chabrier: España

Antoine de La Rochefoucauld
 * Erik Satie: Gnossienne No. 2 (in the 1893 edition but not included in the 1913 reprint)

Ferdinand Laub
 * Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky: String Quartet No. 3 in E-flat minor, Op. 30 (written in memory of Laub)

Memory of Vladimir Lenin
 * Dmitri Shostakovich: Symphony No. 12 in D minor, Op. 112

Leningrad
 * Dmitri Shostakovich: Symphony No. 7 in C major, Op. 60

Theodor Lewald, the German Olympic Committee’s representative to the IOC
 * Richard Strauss: Olympische Hymne

Karol Lipiński
 * Robert Schumann: Carnaval, Op. 9

Franz Liszt
 * Charles-Valentin Alkan: Trois morceaux dans le genre pathétique
 * Frédéric Chopin: 12 Études, Op. 10
 * Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov: Piano Concerto in C-sharp minor, Op. 30
 * Robert Schumann: Fantasie in C, Op. 17

Anna Lodyzhenskaya
 * Sergei Rachmaninoff: Caprice bohémien, Op. 12
 * Rachmaninoff: Symphony No. 1 in D minor, Op. 13

Marguerite Long
 * Gabriel Fauré: Impromptu No. 4 in D-flat major, Op. 91
 * Maurice Ravel: Piano Concerto in G

Adela Maddison
 * Gabriel Fauré: Nocturne No. 7 in C-sharp minor, Op. 74

Alma Mahler
 * Erich Wolfgang Korngold: Violin Concerto in D major

Joseph de Marliave
 * Maurice Ravel: "Toccata" from Le tombeau de Couperin

Eduard Marxsen
 * Johannes Brahms: Piano Concerto No. 2 in B-flat major, Op. 83

Nikolai Medtner
 * Sergei Rachmaninoff: Piano Concerto No. 4 in G minor, Op. 40

Willem Mengelberg
 * Sergei Rachmaninoff: The Bells, choral symphony, Op. 35 (co-dedicated to the Concertgebouw Orchestra)
 * Richard Strauss: A Hero's Life, Op. 40 (co-dedicated to the Concertgebouw Orchestra)

Sophie Menter
 * Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky: Concert Fantasia in G, Op. 56 (full score)

Prosper Mimart
 * Claude Debussy: Première rhapsodie

Yevgeny Mravinsky
 * Dmitri Shostakovich: Symphony No. 8 in C minor, Op. 65

Richard Mühlfeld
 * Johannes Brahms: Clarinet Quintet in B minor, Op. 115
 * Brahms: Clarinet Sonatas

Modest Mussorgsky
 * César Cui: Act I of Mlada (ded. Memory of Borodin, Mussorgsky and Rimsky-Korsakov)

Nikolai Myaskovsky
 * Sergei Prokofiev: Symphony No. 3 in C minor, Op. 44

Eduard Nápravník
 * Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky: The Maid of Orleans

Antonina Nezhdanova
 * Sergei Rachmaninoff: Vocalise, Op. 34/14

Leonid Nikolayev
 * Dmitri Shostakovich:  Piano Sonata No. 2 in B minor, Op. 61

Tatiana Nikolayeva
 * Dmitri Shostakovich:  24 Preludes and Fugues, Op. 87

Garrick Ohlsson
 * John Adams: American Berserk

David Oistrakh
 * Dmitri Shostakovich: Violin Concerto No. 1 in A minor, Op. 77
 * Shostakovich: Violin Concerto No. 2 in C-sharp minor, Op. 129
 * Shostakovich: Violin Sonata, Op. 134

Eugene Ormandy
 * Sergei Rachmaninoff: Symphonic Dances, Op. 45 (co-dedicated to the Philadelphia Orchestra)

Charles Panzéra
 * Gabriel Fauré: L'horizon chimérique, Op. 118

Philadelphia Orchestra Delfina Potocka
 * Sergei Rachmaninoff: Symphonic Dances, Op. 45 (co-dedicated to Eugene Ormandy)
 * Frédéric Chopin: Waltz in D-flat major, Op. 64/1, “Minute”

Dionys Pruckner
 * Franz Liszt: Two Concert Études

Sergei Rachmaninoff
 * Nikolai Medtner: Piano Concerto No. 2 in C minor

Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov
 * César Cui: Act I of Mlada (ded. Memory of Borodin, Mussorgsky and Rimsky-Korsakov)
 * Sergei Rachmaninoff: The Rock, Op. 7

Alexis Roland-Manuel
 * Erik Satie: Gnossienne No. 1 (in the 1913 reprint; not included in the 1893 edition)

Friedrich Rosch
 * Richard Strauss: Death and Transfiguration, Op. 24

Mstislav Rostropovich
 * Sergei Prokofiev: Symphony-Concerto in E minor, Op. 125
 * Dmitri Shostakovich: Cello Concerto No. 1 in E-flat major, Op. 107
 * Shostakovich: Cello Concerto No. 2, Op. 126

Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra
 * Sergei Rachmaninoff: The Bells, choral symphony, Op. 35 (co-dedicated to Willem Mengelberg)
 * Richard Strauss: A Hero's Life, Op. 40 (co-dedicated to Willem Mengelberg)

Nikolai Rubinstein
 * Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 1 in G minor, "Winter Daydreams", Op. 13
 * Tchaikovsky: Piano Concerto No. 2 in G major, Op. 44
 * Tchaikovsky: Piano Trio in A minor, Op. 50 (subtitled "In memory of a great artist" but does not mention Rubinstein by name)

Paul Sacher
 * Richard Strauss: Metamorphosen

Camille Saint-Saëns
 * Gabriel Fauré: Ballade in F-sharp major, Op. 19

Pablo de Sarasate
 * Aleksander Zarzycki: Mazurka in G major

Memory of Maximilian Schmidthof
 * Sergei Prokofiev: Piano Concerto No. 2 in G minor, Op. 16
 * Prokofiev: Piano Sonata No. 2 in D minor, Op. 14
 * Prokofiev: Piano Sonata No. 4 in C minor, Op. 29

Wilhelmine Schröder-Devrient
 * Robert Schumann: Dichterliebe, Op. 48

Clara Schumann
 * Johannes Brahms: Piano Sonata No. 2 in F-sharp minor, Op. 2
 * Brahms: Serenade No. 2 in A major, Op. 16
 * Brahms: Variations and Fugue on a Theme by Handel, Op. 24
 * Brahms: Six Pieces for Piano, Op. 118
 * Franz Liszt: Grandes études de Paganini

Robert Schumann
 * Frédéric Chopin: Ballade No. 2 in F major, Op. 38
 * Franz Liszt: Piano Sonata in B minor

Count Nicolaus Seebach, director of the Royal Opera in Dresden
 * Richard Strauss: An Alpine Symphony, Op. 64

Frau Majorin Friederike Serre auf Maxen
 * Robert Schumann: Arabeske in C, Op. 18
 * Schumann: Blumenstück in D-flat, Op. 19

Vissarion Shebalin
 * Dmitri Shostakovich: String Quartet No. 2 in A major, Op. 68

Vladimir Shilovsky
 * Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 3 in D major, "Polish", Op. 29

Sergei Shirinsky, cellist of the Beethoven Quartet
 * Dmitri Shostakovich: String Quartet No. 14 in F-sharp major, Op. 142

Vasily Shirinsky, 2nd violin of the Beethoven Quartet
 * Dmitri Shostakovich: String Quartet No. 11 in F minor, Op. 122

Irina Antonovna Shostakovich (composer’s 3rd wife)
 * Dmitri Shostakovich: String Quartet No. 9 in E-flat major, Op. 117

Alexander Siloti
 * Sergei Rachmaninoff: Scherzo in D minor
 * Rachmaninoff: Piano Concerto No. 1 in F-sharp minor, Op. 1
 * Rachmaninoff: 10 Preludes, Op. 23

Winnaretta Singer, Princesse Edmond de Polignac
 * Gabriel Fauré: Cinq mélodies "de Venise", Op. 58
 * Maurice Ravel: Pavane pour une infante défunte

Stepan Smolensky
 * Sergei Rachmaninoff:  All-Night Vigil, Op. 37

Robert Soetens
 * Sergei Prokofiev: Violin Concerto No. 2 in G minor, Op. 63

Ivan Sollertinsky
 * Dmitri Shostakovich: Piano Trio No. 2 in E minor, Op. 67

Paul Sordes
 * Maurice Ravel: "Une barque sur l'océan" from Miroirs

Pierre Souvtchinski
 * Sergei Prokofiev: Piano Sonata No. 5 in C major, Op. 38

Edgar Speyer
 * Richard Strauss: Salome, Op. 54

Wilhelm Stenhammar
 * Jean Sibelius: Symphony No. 6 in D minor, Op. 104

Jane Stirling
 * Frédéric Chopin: Nocturnes, Op. 55

Baron de Stockhausen, Hanoverian ambassador to France
 * Frédéric Chopin: Ballade No. 1 in G minor, Op. 23

Leopold Stokowski
 * Sergei Rachmaninoff: Three Russian Songs, Op. 41

St. Petersburg Chamber Music Society
 * Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky: String Sextet in D minor, "Souvenir de Florence", Op. 70

Zoltán Székely
 * Béla Bartók : Rhapsody No. 2

Ede Szerdahelyi
 * Franz Liszt: Hungarian Rhapsody No. 1

Joseph Szigeti
 * Béla Bartók : Rhapsody No. 1

Sergei Taneyev
 * Sergei Rachmaninoff: Symphony No. 2 in E minor, Op. 27
 * Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky: Francesca da Rimini, Op. 32

Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
 * Sergei Rachmaninoff: Suite No. 1 "Fantaisie-Tableaux" for two pianos, Op. 5

Nikolai Tcherepnin
 * Sergei Prokofiev: Piano Concerto No. 1 in D-flat major, Op. 10
 * Prokofiev: Sinfonietta in A major, Op. 5

László Teleki
 * Franz Liszt: Hungarian Rhapsody No. 2

Dmitri Tsyganov, 1st violin of the Beethoven Quartet
 * Dmitri Shostakovich: String Quartet No. 12 in D-flat major, Op. 133

Viorica Ursuleac
 * Richard Strauss: Friedenstag, Op. 81 (co-dedicated to her husband Clemens Krauss)

Nadezhda von Meck
 * Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 4 in F minor, Op. 36
 * Tchaikovsky: Orchestral Suite No. 1 in D minor, Op. 43

Nina Varzar, composer's first wife
 * Dmitri Shostakovich: Lady Macbeth of the Mtsensk District, Op. 29

Franz von Vecsey
 * Jean Sibelius: Violin Concerto in D minor, Op. 47 (originally dedicated to Willy Burmester)

Johannes Verhulst
 * Robert Schumann: Overture, Scherzo and Finale, Op. 52

Memory of Pyotr Vilyams (1902–1947), artist and set designer
 * Dmitri Shostakovich: String Quartet No. 4 in D major, Op. 83

Ricardo Viñes
 * Maurice Ravel: Menuet antique
 * Ravel: "Oiseaux tristes" from Miroirs

Galina Vishnevskaya
 * Dmitri Shostakovich: Seven Songs on Poems by Alexander Blok, Op. 127

Wilhelm Joseph von Wasielewski
 * Robert Schumann: Märchenbilder for viol and piano, Op. 113

Julie von Webenau
 * Robert Schumann: Humoreske in B-flat, Op. 20

Moisei Weinberg
 * Dmitri Shostakovich: String Quartet No. 10 in A-flat major, Op. 118

Anne Yesipova
 * Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky: Concert Fantasia in G, Op. 56 (arrangements for 4 pianos and 2 hands)

Aleksandr Zatayevich
 * Sergei Rachmaninoff: Six moments musicaux, Op. 16

Wojciech Żywny
 * Frédéric Chopin: Polonaise in A-flat, Op. posth.