location musicians associated with the conservatory Arensky, Anton Stepanovich Ashkenazy, Vladimir Gubaidulina, Sofia Ippolitov-Ivanov, Mikhail Mikhailovich Kabalevsky, Dmitry Borisovich Khachaturian, Aram Ilich Khachaturian, Aram Ilich Kremer, Gidon Oistrakh, David Fyodorovich Rachmaninoff, Sergey Vasilyevich Richter, Sviatoslav Teofilovich Rostropovich, Mstislav Schnittke, Alfred Scriabin, Aleksandr Nikolayevich Shostakovich, Dmitry Dmitrievich Tchaikovsky, Peter Ilyich Theremin, Leon