The Most Famous

COMPOSERS from Moldova

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This page contains a list of the greatest Moldovan Composers. The pantheon dataset contains 1,451 Composers, 3 of which were born in Moldova. This makes Moldova the birth place of the 42nd most number of Composers behind Portugal, and Slovenia.

Top 3

The following people are considered by Pantheon to be the most legendary Moldovan Composers of all time. This list of famous Moldovan Composers is sorted by HPI (Historical Popularity Index), a metric that aggregates information on a biography's online popularity.

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1. Anton Rubinstein (1829 - 1894)

With an HPI of 73.23, Anton Rubinstein is the most famous Moldovan Composer.  His biography has been translated into 49 different languages on wikipedia.

Anton Grigoryevich Rubinstein (Russian: Антон Григорьевич Рубинштейн, romanized: Anton Grigoryevich Rubinshteyn; 28 November [O.S. 16 November] 1829 – 20 November [O.S. 8 November] 1894) was a Russian pianist, composer and conductor who founded the Saint Petersburg Conservatory. He was the elder brother of Nikolai Rubinstein, who founded the Moscow Conservatory. As a pianist, Rubinstein ranks among the great 19th-century keyboard virtuosos. He became most famous for his series of historical recitals, seven enormous, consecutive concerts covering the history of piano music. Rubinstein played this series throughout Russia and Eastern Europe and in the United States when he toured there. Although best remembered as a pianist and educator (most notably as the composition teacher of Tchaikovsky), Rubinstein was also a prolific composer; he wrote 20 operas, the best known of which is The Demon. He composed many other works, including five piano concertos, six symphonies and many solo piano works along with a substantial output of works for chamber ensemble. In 1865 Rubinstein married Vera de Tschikouanov, a maid of honor at the Russian court, who bore him three children.

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2. Eugen Doga (1937 - 2025)

With an HPI of 65.44, Eugen Doga is the 2nd most famous Moldovan Composer.  His biography has been translated into 22 different languages.

Eugen Doga (1 March 1937 – 3 June 2025) was a Moldovan composer. He made significant contributions to various forms of music during his career. Doga created ballets, Luceafărul, Venancia, and Queen Margot, the opera Dialogues of Love, more than 100 instrumental and choral works, symphonies, 6 quartets, Requiem and other church music. He also wrote incidental music for 13 plays, radio shows, more than 200 film scores, more than 260 songs and romances, more than 70 waltzes. He also composed works for children and the music for the opening and closing ceremonies of the 1980 Summer Olympic Games in Moscow. The World Intellectual Property Organization (Geneva), in recognition of his outstanding achievements in music, awarded him a special certificate in 2007.

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3. Alexander Goldenweiser (1875 - 1961)

With an HPI of 58.77, Alexander Goldenweiser is the 3rd most famous Moldovan Composer.  His biography has been translated into 19 different languages.

Alexander Borisovich Goldenweiser 10 March [O.S. 26 February] 1875 – 26 November 1961) was a Russian and Soviet pianist, teacher and composer. Goldenweiser was born in Kishinev, Bessarabia, Russia. In 1889, he was admitted to the Moscow Conservatory in the class of Alexander Siloti (also Ziloti). He graduated from the Moscow Conservatory in 1895 in the piano class of Pavel Pabst (previously with A.I.Siloti), winning the Gold Medal for Piano, in 1897 – in the composition class of Mikhail Ippolitov-Ivanov. He also studied composition with Anton Arensky and counterpoint with Sergei Taneyev (1892–1893). He joined the faculty of the Conservatory shortly afterward, where he worked as the dean, and during his tenure there, his pupils included Grigory Ginzburg, Lazar Berman, Samuil Feinberg, Rosa Tamarkina, Dmitry Kabalevsky, Galina Eguiazarova, Nikolai Kapustin, Alexander Braginsky, Sulamita Aronovsky, Tatiana Nikolayeva, Dmitry Paperno, Nodar Gabunia, Oxana Yablonskaya, Nelly Akopian-Tamarina, Dmitri Bashkirov, Dmitry Blagoy, and many others. See: List of music students by teacher: G to J#Alexander Goldenweiser. Rachmaninoff's Second Suite, Op. 17, was dedicated to him as well as Medtner's Lyric Fragments, Op. 23. He was a close friend of Leo Tolstoy. He published memories of his relationship with Tolstoy in his book Vblizi Tolstogo. He made a number of renowned recordings as a pianist, including four recordings on piano roll for the Welte-Mignon reproducing piano in 1910. He died in 1961, in Moscow Oblast.

People

Pantheon has 3 people classified as Moldovan composers born between 1829 and 1937. Of these 3, none of them are still alive today. The most famous deceased Moldovan composers include Anton Rubinstein, Eugen Doga, and Alexander Goldenweiser. As of April 2024, 3 new Moldovan composers have been added to Pantheon including Anton Rubinstein, Eugen Doga, and Alexander Goldenweiser.

Deceased Moldovan Composers

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Overlapping Lives

Which Composers were alive at the same time? This visualization shows the lifespans of the 3 most globally memorable Composers since 1700.