Of all that have been mentioned so far I really enjoy Dvorak, Tchaikovsky and Borodin (Knez Igor is just superb).
There are many composers of serious music I like (Dvorak being among the top five)!
I'd like to recomend Aram Khachaturian (not Russian, but from the Soviet Union), Frederic Chopin (just awsome), Edvard Grieg (mostly Peer Gynt, but I like his piano concertos). I'd also recomend Maurice Ravel and Tommaso Albinoni and of course the two masters - Richard Wagner and Richard Strauss. There are more... Gustav Mahler, Carl Orff and even George Gershwin...
I know they are all from very different time periods, but they are just great!
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