List of Ukrainian composers

This is a list of Ukrainian composers of classical music who were either born on the territory of modern-day Ukraine or are considered to be ethnically Ukrainian.

List by century of birth 15th century Composer Date City of birth Notable works Sebastian z Felsztyna 1480/1490?after 1543 Polish Felsztyn (now modern Skelivka in Ukraine) three motets

16th century Composer Date City of birth Notable works Marcin Leopolita 15371584 Lviv Missa paschalis

17th century Composer Date City of birth Notable works Mykola Pavlovych Dyletsky 1630after 1680 KyivHramatyka muzykal’na (Musical Grammar), a textbook of polyphonic singingSymeon PekalytskyunknownLiturgy in 8 voicesIvan Domaratskyafter 1650 – before 1750unknown"Oh you, Father Roman" and No. 10 "Your Spirit is Good", "Concerto of the Apostle Timofey", "The Catcher is Wonderful with His Tongue", concerto "The Virgin Gives Birth to the Pre-existent", "The Deliverer Has Been Sent by the Lord", concerto in 8 voices "Blessed is the Man Who Fears the Lord", All-Night Virgil "Blessed is the Man".Herman Levytsky? - after 1740unknownpartes concertos: Concerto №5 “Vsjak zemnorodnyi da vozyhraietsia", Concerto №6 “Sosud sviashchennishyi”, Concerto №13 “Pryidite, poslidnie tsilovaniiie”, Concerto №14 “Koe razlucheniie, o bratiie”

18th century Composer Date City of birth Notable worksHrytsko from Kyiv18th centuryunknownLiturgy for 8 voicesTymofiy BilohradskyCherkasy?Minuet with variations for harpsichord Hryhorii Skovoroda 17221794 Chornukhy, Kiev Governorate, Cossack Hetmanate Garden of Divine Songs, Liturgical music Andrii Rachinsky1724–1794Velyki Mostysacred concerti, introduced the Italian style of singing in the Razumovsky chapel, contributed to the famous Razumovsky sheet music library active 1773–1780sunknownromances, liturgical music, cantata "He took the thundering harp in his right hand" (1787)Yelizaveta Belogradskaya1739 – c. 1764 [?]unknown Imperial Court opera singer and composer for keyboardc.1740c.1810Belgorod, Sloboda Ukrainemusic-folklore of the collection "Collection of "simple russian" songs with notes" (parts 1–4, 1776–1795) including Ukrainian folk songs, and piano variations on the themes of folk songsVasyl Pashkevychc. 1742-1797unknown9 Operas (incl. Fevey), a Romance with lyrics by Gavrila Derzhavin, masses and other liturgical works Shuliar, Orest: History of Vocal Art. Ivano-Frankivsk: Institute of Arts of Vasyl Stefanyk Precarpathian National University, 2013. P. 13. Maksym Berezovsky 17451777 Hlukhiv?, Nizhyn regiment, Cossack Hetmanate Sacred choral concertos; composed the earliest opera, symphony, and f violin sonata Dmytro Bortniansky 17511825 Hlukhiv, Nizhyn regiment, Cossack Hetmanate Sacred choral concerti, operas, symphonie concertante, quintet, harpsichord sonata Artemy Vedel 17671808 Kiev governate Sacred choral concerti; see List of compositions by Artemy VedelIlya Lyzohub1787–1867Kulykivka, Chernihiv governatecello sonata in G minor1790–1839Sedniv, Chernihiv governatetwo nocturnes dated 1821, mazurkas, art songs ("Death in a Foreign Land"), sets of variations on Ukrainian folk songs ("Oh, There Is a Well in the Field,' "And I Had a Wife," and "Don't Go to the Party, Hryts"

19th century

Composer Date City of birth Notable works Mykola Markevych 18041860 Dunaiets, Chernihiv guberniacollection Ukrainian melodies published in 18311812-1866Kyivpiano variation "Ukrainka" (1836), other piano compositions on ukrainian dance melodies such as a Kolomyika, two ukrainian dumkas and "The neighbour has a white house" Semen Hulak-Artemovsky 18131873 Horodyshche The first Ukrainian-language opera "Zaporozhian Cossack beyond the Danube" Mykhaylo Verbytsky 18151870 Lemko region, Austrian Empire Ukraine national anthem 18161881 Voronovytsia, Vinnytsia Oblast the author of the lyrics and music of songs such as "Handzia", "Hey, I'm a Cossack, my name is Volya", "Cossack boredom" Vasyl Pashchenko1822-1891OdesaPolonaise "On the death of Taras Shevchenko" (1861)1823–1873Lopinka, Lemko regionreligious and secular compositions such as "Autumn," "Zaspivai my, soloviiu" (Sing for Me, Nightingale), "Richen'ka" (The Streamlet), as well as the popular operettas Oman ochei (A Wile of the Eyes), Roksoliana, and Pan Dovhonos (Mister Long Nose)1825–1894Bugayivka, Izyum district, Kharkiv gubernia operettas "Za Neman’ idu" (Beyond the Neman I Go, 1872) and "Ne khody, Hrytsiu, na vechornytsi" (Don't Go to Parties, Hryts! 1873), song about the pumpkin1828-1887Mykhalkivtsi, Khmelnytskyi Oblastmore than 500 salon compositions for piano, arrangements of Ukrainian and Polish folk songs, Dumkas and Shumkas, two operas Petro Nishchynsky 18321896 Nemenka, Vinnytska Oblastchorus from "Vechornytsy": "Song of the grey Cuckoo"Vladyslav Zaremba1833-1902Dunaivtsimore than 30 compositions to the lyrics of Taras Shevchenko Sydir Vorobkevych 18361903 Chernivtsi Sacred music Apollon Hussakovskyi1841-1875Okhtyrka"Sheet from an album" and a Scherzo for piano Anatol Vakhnianyn1841–1908Siniava, Peremyshl circle, GaliciaKupalo, the first opera in western Ukraine (1870–92); music to plays by Taras Shevchenko, Fedir Zarevych, Omelian Ohonovsky, and Kornylo Ustyianovych; original choral scores to texts by Yurii Fedkovych, Ivan Hushalevych, E. Levytsky, and others; choral arrangements of Ukrainian folk songs Mykola Lysenko 18421912 Poltava oblast overture from Taras Bulba, Prayer for Ukraine The "Father of Ukrainian music". Founder of Ukrainian nationalist school of music Arkady Abaza 18431915 Sudzhansky District, Kursk Governorate, Russian Empire Piano pieces and romances, including "Foggy Morning" to the lyrics of Ivan Turgenev19th centuryIziummusic for the romances "I'm looking at the sky" (lyrics by Mykhailo Petrenko) and "Blow, wind, to Ukraine" (lyrics by Stepan Rudanskyi) the ballad "Konoshevych-Sahaidachnyi", elegy "Barvinok", scherzo "Rusalky", "Ukrainian lullaby", Mazurka "Podolianka" (1865)1852–1912Tudorkovychi, Zhovkva circle, Galiciafolk song arrangements, melodramas such as "Kapral Tymko" (Corporal Tymko), "Neshchasna liubov" (Unlucky Love), "Invalid" (The Invalid), and "Nashi poselentsi" (Our Settlers), anthology of the works of Ukrainian composers titled Boian (The Troubadour, 1884; 2nd edn 1886), school and church songbooks Mykola Arkas 18531909 Mykolaivthe opera "Kateryna" (1890)Ostap Nyzhankivsky1862–1919Drohobych, Galiciaworks for choir "Hulialy" (They Danced) and "Z Okrushkiv" (From Crumbs, text by Yurii Fedkovych), art songs for solo voice with piano accompaniment, including "Mynuly lita molodii" (The Years of Youth Have Passed By); arrangements of folk songs for solo voice or choir; and Vitrohony, a cycle of kolomyika melodies for pianoDenys Sichynsky1865–1909Kliuvyntsi, Husiatyn county, Galiciaopera Roksoliana (libretto by V. Lutsyk and Stepan Charnetsky, 1908); works for symphony and chamber orchestras; piano solos; choral music, including the cantata Lichu v nevoli (I Count the Days and Nights in captivity; text by Taras Shevchenko); a score for a liturgy; approximately 20 art songs for solo voice to texts by T. Shevchenko, L. Ukrainka, I. Franko, B. Lepky, U. Kravchenko, and H. Heine; and arrangements of folk songs Gregory Alchevsky 18661920 Kharkiv Alyosha Popovych, romances, other works Filaret Kolessa 18711947 Lviv oblast Ukrainian ethnographic musicology Mykhailo Bukynyk 18721947Dubno Reinhold Glière 18751956 Kyiv Numerous orchestral works, concertos, ballets, vocal works Oleksandr Koshyts 18751944 Romashky, near Kyiv Sacred music (liturgies, songs), collecting and arrangements of folk songsBorys Yanovsky1875–1933Moscow10 operas, notably Sorochyntsi Fair (1899) and Black Sea Duma or Samiilo Kishka (1927); two ballets; orchestral pieces; chamber music works; violin and piano music; works for chorus; art songs; and arrangements of Ukrainian folk songs1876–1945two symphonies, symphonic poems, an orchestral suite, an overture, a trio for strings, a sonata for cello, sonatas for violin, and numerous works for piano Serhii Bortkevych 18771952 Kharkiv Works by Bortkiewicz include two symphonies, three piano concertos, a violin concerto, and a cello concerto Davyd Novakivsky 18771921 Malyn Synagogue music, choral, organ, and orchestral works Mykola Leontovych 18771921 Monastyrok (Podilia) Shchedryk which eventually became the "Carol of the Bells" Stanyslav Lyudkevych 18791979 Yaroslav (present-day Poland)cantata The Caucasus (1902–13), inspired by Taras Shevchenko's poem, The Eternal Revolutionary (1898), The Reaper (1901), Khor pidzemnykh kovaliv (The Chorus of Underground Blacksmiths, 1905), Oi, vyhostriu tovarysha (Oh, I'll Hone My Knife, 1917), and The Testament (1934) symphonic compositions The [Sich] Riflemen's Rhapsody, 1920), Kameniari (The Stonecutters, 1926, 1956), and Vesnianky (Spring Songs, 1935), Symfonietta (1943), Koliadnytsia (Christmas Caroller, 1944), Iunats’ke rondo (The Rondo of Youth, 1946), the symphonic poem The Dnieper (1948), Prykarpats’ka symfoniia (The Subcarpathian Symphony, 1952), and the opera Dovbush1879–1960Maksymivka, Pereiaslav county, Poltava guberniaoperas Life Is a Dream (based on Calderón) and The Servant Girl (based on Taras Shevchenko, 1913–16); two symphonies (1905, 1912); an overture (1908); seven string quartets; approximately 50 works of choral music to texts by Shevchenko, Mykola Bazhan, and others; and approximately 100 solo art songs to texts by Shevchenko, Pavlo Tychyna, Maksym Rylsky, and othersGrigory Kompaneyets1881-1959 Poltava The Wolf and the Seven Kids (1939; 2nd edition – 1954) Mykola Roslavets 18811944 Dushatyn, Chernihiv Orchestral and chamber atonal works, Known as the Ukrainian Schoenberg Kyrylo Stetsenko 18821922 CherkashchynaRequiem "Zhuravli" (the cranes) Yakiv Stepovy 18831921 KharkivArt songs to the words of T. Shevchenko, I. Franko, Lesia Ukrainka, P. Tychyna, M. Rylskyi Thomas de Hartmann 18841956 Khoruzhivka See list of compositions by Thomas de Hartmann Vasyl Barvinsky 18881963 Ternopilworks for piano, orchestra, choir on ukrainian folk and literary themes Mykola Vilinsky 18881956 Holta, Ananiv povit Symphonic suites, music for piano, and arrangements for choir and solo voices of Ukrainian, Russian, Moldavian folk songs Levko Revutsky 18891977 Irzhavets, PrylukySymphony 2 Sergei Prokofiev 18911953 Sontsivka, Donetsk 5 piano concertos, 9 piano sonatas, 7 symphonies, Suite from Romeo and Juliet, Suite from Lieutenant KijéVsevolod Zaderatsky1891–1953Rivnetwo operas, several symphonic compositions (including Symphony No. 1, 1951), chamber music, choral works (eg, the Suite on Ukrainian Folk Texts and a choral poem dedicated to Viktor Kosenko ), and art songs, five piano sonatas, a suite, a cycle of 24 preludes and fugues Mykhailo Haivoronsky 18921949 Zalischyky songs of the Ukrainian Sich Riflemen, choral works, church music, and instrumental music for violin, string orchestra, band, and symphony orchestra. He also arranged many folk songs and compiled a number of songbooks1892–1948Pechenihy, Vovchansk county, Kharkiv guberniathe opera The Witch (after Yevhen Hrebinka, libretto by Stepan Charnetsky, 1936–1940), the ballet Legin''' (Young Lad; libretto by Dmytro Chutro, 1938), the tone poem Ukraïna (after Taras Shevchenko's Haidamaky), three string quartets, and the cantata Biut' porohy (The Rapids Roar; text by Shevchenko) for mixed chorus and orchestra

| Pylyp Kozytsky | | 18931960 | Letychivka, Cherkasy Oblast | works based on elements of Ukrainian folk music with social and patriotic characteristics

|1895–1960 |Urazovo, Valuiki county, Voronezh gubernia |the operas Karmeliuk, Nazar Stodolia (based on the play by Taras Shevchenko), and The Carpathians; the ballet Reborn Steppe; the symphony The Year 1917; a suite for symphony orchestra; violin, piano, and choral pieces; and six string quartets. studies of Pavlo Senytsia (1922), the role of folk songs in Ukrainian music (1928), the influence of German expressionism on Ukrainian music (1929)