Editing Moscow Conservatory (section)

==Notable alumni==
*[[Alexander Siloti]] (1863–1945) – pianist, conductor, composer 
*[[Valery Afanassiev]] (b. 1947) – pianist
*[[Nelly Akopian-Tamarina]] – pianist
*[[Ashot Ariyan]] (b. 1973) – composer and pianist
*[[Eduard Artemyev]] (1937–2022) – composer
*[[Vladimir Ashkenazy]] (b. 1937) – pianist, conductor
*[[Vladimir Bakaleinikov]] (1885–1953) – violist, composer, conductor
*[[Stanisław Barcewicz]] (1858-1929) – violinist
*[[Rudolf Barshai]] (1924–2010) – violist, conductor
*[[Dmitri Bashkirov]] (1931–2021) – pianist
*[[Yuri Bashmet]] (b. 1953) – violist, conductor
*[[Boris Berezovsky (pianist)|Boris Berezovsky]] (b. 1969) – pianist
*[[Boris Berman (musician)|Boris Berman]] (b. 1948) – pianist
*[[Lazar Berman]] (1930–2005) – pianist
*[[Pavel Berman]] (b. 1970) – violinist, conductor
*[[Vadim Borisovsky]] (1900–1972) – violist
*[[Anatoliy Brandukov]] (1859–1930) – cellist
*[[Alexander Chuhaldin]] (1892–1951) – violinist, conductor, composer
*[[Tish Daija]] (1926–2003) – Albanian composer
*[[Dang Thai Son|Đặng Thái Sơn]] (b. 1958) – pianist
*[[Bella Davidovich]] (b. 1928) – pianist
*[[Nikolai Demidenko]] (b. 1955) – pianist
*[[Edison Denisov]] (1929–1996) – composer
*[[Vladimir Denissenkov]] (b. 1956) – accordionist
*[[Fyodor Druzhinin]] (1932–2007) – violist
*[[Youri Egorov]] (1954–1988) – pianist
*[[Samuil Feinberg]] (1890–1962) – pianist, composer
*[[Frank Fernández (pianist)|Frank Fernandez]] (b. 1944) – pianist, composer
*[[Yakov Flier]] (1912–1977) – pianist
*[[Andrei Gavrilov]] (b. 1955) – pianist
*[[Misha Geller]] (1937–2007) – composer, violist
*[[Emil Gilels]] (1916–1985) – pianist
*[[Marina Goglidze-Mdivani]] (b. 1936) – pianist
*[[Alexei Gorokhov]] (1927–1999) – violinist, musicologist
*[[Vera Gornostayeva]] (1929–2015) – pianist
*[[Sofia Gubaidulina]] (b. 1931) – composer
*[[Maria Grinberg]] (1908–1978) – pianist
*[[Natalia Gutman]] (b. 1942) – cellist
*[[Rustem Hayroudinoff]] – pianist
*[[Andrej Hoteev]] (1946–2021) – pianist
*[[Waleed Howrani]] (b. 1948) – composer, pianist
*[[Rinat Ibragimov (musician)|Rinat Ibragimov]] (1960–2020) – double bassist, conductor
*[[Valentina Igoshina]] (b. 1978) – pianist
*[[Konstantin Igumnov]] (1873–1948) – pianist
*[[Ilya Itin]] (b. 1967) – pianist
*[[Dmitry Kabalevsky]] (1904-1987) – composer, pianist
*[[Nikolai Kapustin]] (1937-2020) – composer, pianist
*[[Olga Kern]] (b. 1975) – pianist
*[[Aram Khachaturian]] (1903-1978) – composer
*[[Savvas Savva]] (b. 1957) – composer, pianist
*[[Yuri Kholopov]] (1932-2003) – musicologist
*[[Vladimir Khomyakov]] (b. 1984) – pianist
*[[Tikhon Khrennikov]] (1913-2007) – composer
*[[Igor Khudolei]] (1940-2001) – pianist
*[[:pt:Olga Kiun|Olga Kiun]] – pianist
*[[Pavel Klinichev]] – conductor
*[[Leonid Kogan]] (1924-1982) – violinist
*[[Pavel Kogan (conductor)|Pavel Kogan]] (b. 1952) – violinist, conductor
*[[Evgeni Koroliov]] (b. 1949) – pianist
*[[Sergey Kostiuchenko]] (b. 1965) – Belarusian conductor
*[[Ivan Kotov]] (1950–1985) – bassist
*[[Maxim Kozlov]] (active 1995–present) – cellist and educator
*[[Vladimir Krainev]] (1944–2011) – pianist
*[[Gidon Kremer]] (b. 1947) – violinist
*[[Eduard Kunz]] (b. 1980) – pianist
*[[Ina Lange]] (1846–1930) – pianist; later music historian and writer
*[[Elisabeth Leonskaja]] – pianist
*[[Josef Lhévinne]] – pianist
*[[Rosina Lhévinne]] – pianist
*[[Dong-Hyek Lim]] – pianist
*[[Alexei Lubimov]] – pianist
*[[Nikolai Lugansky]] – pianist
*[[Radu Lupu]] – pianist
*[[Anna Saulowna Lyuboshits]] – cellist
*[[Dmitry Malikov]] – pianist, composer, singer
*[[Anna Malikova]] – pianist
*[[Yevgeny Malinin]] – pianist
*[[Alexander Malofeev]] – pianist
*[[Álvaro Manzano]] (1955–2022) - Ecuadorian conductor
*[[Emanuil Manolov]] – pianist, flutist, conductor, composer
*[[Fuat Mansurov]] – conductor
*[[Denis Matsuev]] – pianist
*[[Nikolai Medtner]] – composer, pianist
*[[Victor Merzhanov]] – pianist
*[[Alexander Mogilevsky]] – violinist
*[[Roman Moiseyev]] – conductor
*[[Alexander Mosolov]] – pianist, composer
*[[Avni Mula]] – Albanian singer, composer
*[[Shoista Mullodzhanova]] – [[Shashmaqam]] singer
*[[Viktoria Mullova]] – violinist
*[[Sergey Musaelyan]] – pianist
*[[Alexandre Naoumenko]] – singer
*[[Anahit Nersesyan]] – pianist
*[[Heinrich Neuhaus]] – pianist
*[[Stanislav Neuhaus]] – pianist
*[[Tatiana Nikolayeva]] – pianist
*[[Dmitri Novgorodsky]] – pianist<ref name = "MA">Levin, Neil M. [http://www.milkenarchive.org/people/view/all/550/Weinberg,+Jacob Biography: Jacob Weinberg 1879–1956]. [[Milken Archive]]. Retrieved 29 August 2014.</ref> 
*[[Lev Oborin]] – pianist
*[[David Oistrakh]] – violinist
*[[Alexander Osminin]] − pianist
*[[Aleksandra Pakhmutova]] – composer
*[[Dmitry Paperno]] – pianist
*[[Georgs Pelēcis]] – Latvian composer and musicologist
*[[Nikolai Arnoldovich Petrov|Nikolai Petrov]] (1943-2011) – pianist
*[[Gregor Piatigorsky]] – cellist
*[[Mikhail Pletnev]] – pianist, composer, conductor
*[[Ivo Pogorelić]] – pianist
*[[Viktoria Postnikova]] – pianist
*[[Mikhail Press]] – violinist
*[[Sergei Rachmaninoff]] – pianist, composer
*[[Sviatoslav Richter]] – pianist
*[[Mstislav Rostropovich]] – cellist and conductor
*[[Gennady Rozhdestvensky]] – conductor
*[[Nikolai Sachenko]] (b. 1977) – violinist
*[[Dilorom Saidaminova]] (b. 1943) - Uzbek composer
*[[Aram Satian]] – composer
*[[Alexander Scriabin]] – composer and pianist
*[[Rodion Shchedrin]] – composer and pianist
*[[Alfred Schnittke]] – composer
*[[Dmitry Shishkin]] (b. 1992) - pianist
*[[Leonid Sigal]] – violinist
*[[Valery Sigalevitch]] – pianist
*[[Tamriko Siprashvili]] – pianist
*[[Pyotr Slovtsov]] – tenor
*[[Galina Konstantinovna Smirnova]] - composer
*[[Viviana Sofronitsky]] – pianist
*[[Aleksandr Sokolov (politician, born 1949)|Aleksandr Sokolov]] – Russian Minister of Culture
*[[Alexei Soutchkov]] – pianist
*[[Vladimir Spivakov]] – violinist, conductor
*[[Steven Spooner]] – pianist
*[[Mykola Suk]] – pianist
*[[Yevgeny Svetlanov]] – conductor, pianist, composer
*[[Ivan Tasovac]] – pianist
*[[Marina Tchebourkina]] – organist, musicologist
*[[Viktor Tretiakov]] – violinist
*[[Anna Tsybuleva]] – pianist
*[[Ibrahim Tukiqi]] – Albanian singer
*[[Pava Turtygina]] - composer, pianist
*[[Mauricio Vallina]] – pianist
*[[Saša Večtomov]] – cellist
*[[Alexander Veprik]] – composer
*[[Anastasia Vedyakova]] - violinist and composer
*[[Eliso Virsaladze]] – pianist
*[[Oleg Volkov]] – pianist
*[[Mikhail Voskresensky]] – pianist
*[[Jacob Weinberg]] – pianist and composer
*[[Çesk Zadeja]] – Albanian composer
*[[Marina Yakhlakova]] – pianist
*[[Irina Zaritskaya]] – pianist
*[[Igor Zubkovsky]] – cellist