Music
- Achilles Alferaki, composer, 1846–1888
- Roman Bilyk (ru:Билык, Роман Витальевич), leader of the Russian pop band Zveri, born in 1977
- David Blok (ru:Блок, Давид Семёнович), Soviet composer, born in Taganrog in 1888
- Adolf Brodsky, violinist, born in Taganrog in 1851
- Juliana Donskaya, songwriter, born in Taganrog in 1974
- Nikolay Lebedev (ru:Лебедев, Николай Николаевич), musician, producer, DJ, born in Taganrog in 1976
- Samuel Maykapar, composer, pianist and author of many pianoforte pieces for kids, 1867–1885
- Gaetano Molla, director of the Italian Opera in Taganrog, 1860s–1880s
- Valentin Parnakh, Poet, translator, choreographer. Founder of the Russian Jazz music. Born in Taganrog in 1891
- Witold Rowicki, Polish conductor, born in 1914
- Vyacheslav Suk, Russian violinist, conductor and composer, worked in 1887–1890, founder of the music classes at The Tchaikovsky Children's School of Music in Taganrog
- Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky, composer, frequently stayed in his brother's house (Ippolit Tchaikovsky) in Taganrog
- Sovet Varelas, composer, born in Taganrog in 1923
- Anatoly Zagot, Soviet Russian folk singer, born in Taganrog in 1936
- Vladimir Grigorievich Zakharov, composer, Peoples' Artist of USSR, art director of Pyatnitsky Choir, student of the Chekhov Gymnasium, 1912–1921
- Vasily Zolotarev, composer, born in Taganrog in 1872
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Famous quotes containing the word music:
“It is from the blues that all that may be called American music derives its most distinctive character.”
—James Weldon Johnson (1871–1938)
“Good music is very close to primitive language.”
—Denis Diderot (1713–1784)
“I used to be angry all the time and I’d sit there weaving my anger. Now I’m not angry. I sit there hearing the sounds outside, the sounds in the room, the sounds of the treadles and heddles—a music of my own making.”
—Bhakti Ziek (b. c. 1946)