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.