Mikhail Raukhverger

Mikhail Rafailovich Raukhverger (Russian: Михаил Рафаилович Раухвергер; 5 December 1901 – 18 October 1989) was a Russian and Soviet pianist, composer and pedagogue.

Mikhail Raukhverger was born in Odesa. He graduated from the Moscow Conservatory under Felix Blumenfeld in 1927 and in 1929–1941 taught there.^[1]

He then moved to the Kirghiz Soviet Socialist Republic, where he composed early Kirghiz operas and ballets.^[2] He composed several operas and ballets, a symphony and a symphonic suite, a cello concerto, three string quartets, piano pieces, more than four hundred choral works and songs as well as drama and film scores.

He died in Moscow in 1989, aged 87.

• Order of the Red Banner of Labour (1958)
• People's Artist of the Kirghiz SSR (1961)^[3]
• Honored Art Worker of the RSFSR (1974)
• Order of Friendship of Peoples (1983)
• Order of the Red Star

• The Lonely White Sail (1937)
• For the Power of the Soviets (1956)
• Morning Star (1959)