# Chronological list of Russian classical composers

The following is a chronological list of classical music composers who live in, work in, or are citizens of Russia, or who have done so.

## Baroque

* Nikolay Diletsky (c. 1630 – after 1680)
* Symeon Pekalytsky (born c. 1630)
* Vasily Polikarpovich Titov (c. 1650 – c. 1715)
* Ivan Domaratsky (second half of the 17th century – first half of the 18th century)

## Classical era

* Ivan Kerzelli (fl. 18th century)
* Yekaterina Sinyavina (died 1784)
* Timofiy Bilohradsky (c. 1710 – c. 1782)
* Grigory Teplov (1711/1717–1779)
* Gregory Skovoroda (1722–1794)
* Yelizaveta Belogradskaya (c.1739 – c. 1764)
* Anna Bon (c. 1739 – after 1767)
* Vasily Pashkevich (c. 1742 – 1797)
* Maxim Berezovsky (c. 1745 – 1777)
* Ivan Khandoshkin (1747–1804)
* Mariya Zubova (1749–1799)
* Mikhail Matinsky (1750 – c. 1820)
* Dmitry Bortniansky (1751–1825)
* Mikhail Sokolovsky (1756–1795)
* Osip Kozlovsky (1757–1831)
* Yevstigney Fomin (1761–1800)
* Stepan Degtyarev (1766–1813)
* Aleksey Zhilin (c. 1766 – c. 1848)
* Artemy Vedel (c. 1767 – 1808)
* Daniil Kashin (1769–1841)
* Alexey Titov (1769–1827)
* Lev Gurilyov (1770–1844)
* Catterino Cavos (1775–1840)
* Stepan Davydov (1777 – 1825)

## Romantic

* Ekaterina Likoshin (1780–1840)
* Alexander Alyabyev (1787–1851)
* Mikhail Vielgorsky (1788–1856)
* Alexander Griboyedov (1795–1829)
* Alexei Lvov (1798–1870)
* Marie von Stedingk (1799–1868)
* Alexey Verstovsky (1799–1862)
* Katerina Maier (fl. c. 1800)
* Nikolai Titov (1800–1875)
* Alexander Egorovich Varlamov (1801–1848)
* Aleksander Gurilyov (1803–1858)
* Mikhail Glinka (1804–1857)
* Mykola Markevych (1804–1860)
* Alexandre Dubuque (1812–1897/8)
* Alexander Dargomyzhsky (1813–1869)
* Semen Hulak-Artemovsky (1813–1873)
* Alexander Serov (1820–1871)
* Nikolay Afanasyev (1821–1898)
* Nikolai Zaremba (1821–1879)
* Pyotr Bulakhov (1822–1885)
* Boris Sheremetev (1822–1906)
* Pavel Bulakhov (1824–1875)
* Boris Fitinhof-Schell (1829?–1901)
* Anton Rubinstein (1829–1894)
* Ivan Larionov (1830–1889)
* Martha von Sabinin (1831–1892)
* Petro Nishchynsky (1832–1896)
* Alexander Borodin (1833–1887)
* César Cui (1835–1918)
* Nikolai Rubinstein (1835–1881)
* Mily Balakirev (1837–1910)
* Karl Davydov (1838–1889)
* Modest Mussorgsky (1839–1881)
* Mikhail Azanchevsky (1839–1881)
* Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (1840–1893)
* Mykola Lysenko (1842–1912)
* Leonid Malashkin (1842–1902)
* Arkady Abaza (1843–1915)
* Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov (1844–1908)
* Abai Qunanbaiuly (1845–1904)
* Achilles Alferaki (1846–1919)
* Ella Adayevskaya (1846–1926)
* Alexander Arkhangelsky (1846–1924)
* Valentina Serova (1846–1924)
* Nicolai Soloviev (1846–1916)
* David Nowakowsky (1848–1921)
* Nadezhda Rimskaya-Korsakova (1848–1919)
* Mikhail Ivanov (1849–1927)
* Alexander Taneyev (1850–1918)
* Vasily Safonov (1852–1918)
* Mykola Arkas (1853–1909)
* Nikolai Shcherbachov (1853–1922)
* Alexander Kopylov (1854–1911)
* Anatoly Lyadov (1855–1914)
* Alexander Kastalsky (1856–1926)
* Eduard Schütt (1856–1933)
* Sergei Taneyev (1856–1915)
* Nikoghayos Tigranian (1856–1951)
* Makar Yekmalyan (1856–1905)
* Nikolai Artsybushev (1858–1937)
* Alexander Ilyinsky (1859–1920)
* Nikolay Sokolov (1859–1922)
* Sergei Lyapunov (1859–1924)
* Arthur Friedheim (1859–1932)
* Mikhail Ippolitov-Ivanov (1859–1935)
* Victor Ewald (1860–1935)
* Anton Arensky (1861–1906)
* Georgy Catoire (1861–1926)
* Mikhail Matyushin (1861–1934)
* Georgi Conus (1862–1933)
* Felix Blumenfeld (1863–1931)
* Alexander Siloti (1863–1945)
* Vladimir Sokalsky (1863–1919)
* Alexander Gretchaninov (1864–1956)
* Baluan Sholak (1864–1919)
* Alexander Glazunov (1865–1936)
* Alexander Winkler (1865–1935)
* Vasily Kalinnikov (1866–1901)
* Vladimir Rebikov (1866–1920)
* Samuel Maykapar (1867–1938)
* Wassily Sapellnikoff (1867–1941)
* Leonid Nikolayev (1868–1942)
* Julius Conus (1869–1942)
* Vasily Kalafati (1869–1942)
* Viktor Kalinnikov (1870–1927)
* Arseny Koreshchenko (1870–1921)
* Emil Młynarski (1870–1835)
* Lev Conus (1871–1944)
* Nikolay Kedrov Sr. (1871–1940)
* Zacharia Paliashvili (1871–1933)
* Alexander Spendiaryan (1871–1928)
* Paul Juon (1872–1940)
* Leokadiya Kashperova (1872–1940)
* Alexander Scriabin (1872–1915)
* Sergei Vasilenko (1872–1956)
* Vasily Zolotarev (1872–1964)
* Witold Maliszewski (1873–1939)
* Sergei Rachmaninoff (1873–1943)
* Nikolai Tcherepnin (1873–1945)
* Elena Gnesina (1874–1967)
* Serge Koussevitzky (1874–1951)
* Sandra Droucker (1875–1944)
* Konstantin Eiges (1875–1950)
* Reinhold Glière (1875–1956)
* Alexander Goldenweiser (1875–1961)
* Alexander Koshetz (1875–1944)
* Grikor Suni (1876–1939)

## Modern/contemporary

* Sergei Bortkiewicz (1877–1952)
* Pavel Chesnokov (1877–1944)
* Alexander Goedicke (1877–1957)
* Yevgeny Gunst (1877–1950)
* Mykola Leontovych (1877–1921)
* Yuliya Veysberg (1878/80–1942)
* Ossip Gabrilowitsch (1878–1936)
* Huseyngulu Sarabski (1879–1945)
* Armen Tigranian (1879–1950)
* Jacob Weinberg (1879–1956)
* Nikolai Medtner (1880–1951)
* Nikolai Myaskovsky (1881–1950)
* Nikolai Roslavets (1881–1944)
* Joseph Rumshinsky (1881–1956)
* Leonid Sabaneyev (1881–1968)
* Vsevolod Zaderatsky (1881–1953)
* Lazare Saminsky (1882–1959)
* Kyrylo Stetsenko (1882–1922)
* Igor Stravinsky (1882–1971)
* Maximilian Steinberg (1883–1946)
* Alexander Vasilyevich Alexandrov (1883–1946)
* Mikhail Gnessin (1883–1957)
* Alexander Krein (1883–1951)
* Romanos Melikian (1883–1935)
* Yakiv Stepovy (1883–1921)
* Boris Asafyev (1884–1949)
* Vasily Agapkin (1884–1964)
* Zulfugar Hajibeyov (1884–1950)
* Leo Zeitlin (1884–1930)
* Vladimir Bakaleinikov (1885–1953)
* Uzeyir Hajibeyov (1885–1948)
* Muslim Magomayev (1885–1937)
* Joseph Achron (1886–1943)
* Arseny Avraamov (1886–1944)
* Moses Milner (1886–1953)
* Sargis Barkhudaryan (1887–1973)
* Ernest Pingoud (1887–1942)
* Yuri Shaporin (1887–1966)
* Julius Isserlis (1888–1968)
* Adrian Shaposhnikov (1888–1967)
* Alexei Stanchinsky (1888–1914)
* Mykola Vilinsky (1888–1956)
* Anatoly Alexandrov (1888–1982)
* Levko Revutsky (1889–1977)
* Vladimir Shcherbachev (1889–1952)
* Alexander Veprik (1889–1958)
* Victor Dolidze (1890–1933)
* Boris Pasternak (1890–1960)
* Samuil Feinberg (1890–1962)
* Aleksandr Yurasovsky (1890–1922)
* Issay Dobrowen (1891–1953)
* Nikolai Golovanov (1891–1953)
* Sergei Prokofiev (1891–1953)
* Alexander Chuhaldin (1892–1951)
* Arthur Lourié (1892–1966)
* Nikolai Obukhov (1892–1954)
* Aleksandr Gauk (1893–1963)
* Pylyp Kozytskiy (1893–1960)
* Leo Ornstein (1893–2002)
* Sergei Protopopov (1893–1954)
* Ivan Wyschnegradsky (1893–1979)
* Mikhail Youdin (1893–1948)
* Boris Ledkovsky (1894–1975)
* Samuel Pokrass (1894–1939)
* Nicolas Slonimsky (1894–1995)
* Dimitri Tiomkin (1894–1979)
* Boris Lyatoshinsky (1895–1968)
* Joseph Schillinger (1895–1943)
* Viktor Kosenko (1896–1938)
* Anatoliy Novikov (1896–1984)
* Sergei Aslamazyan (1897–1978)
* Lev Knipper (1898–1974)
* Alexander Veprik (1898–1958)
* Alexander Abramsky (1898–1985)
* Mischa Levitzki (1898–1941)
* Sophie Carmen Eckhardt-Gramatté (1899–1974)
* Dmitry Pokrass (1899–1978)
* Alexander Tcherepnin (1899–1977)
* Efrem Zimbalist (1889–1985)
* Isaak Dunayevsky (1900–1955)
* Isadore Freed (1900–1960)
* Alexander Mosolov (1900–1973)
* Kazimierz Wiłkomirski (1900–1995)
* Mikhail Zhukov (1901–1960)
* Artemi Ayvazyan (1902–1975)
* Sergey Balasanian (1902–1982)
* Serge Conus (1902–1988)
* Vladimir Fere (1902–1971)
* Mansur Muzafarov (1902–1966)
* Niescier Sakałoŭski (1902–1950)
* Vissarion Shebalin (1902–1963)
* Andriy Shtoharenko (1902–1992)
* Vladimir Vlasov (1902/3–1986)
* Vernon Duke (1903–1969)
* Varvara Gaigerova (1903–1944)
* Vladimir Horowitz (1903–1989)
* Aram Khachaturian (1903–1978)
* Matvey Blanter (1903–1990)
* Yuliy Meitus (1903–1997)
* Nicolas Nabokov (1903–1978)
* Dmitry Kabalevsky (1904–1987)
* Gavriil Popov (1904–1972)
* Aleksey Zhivotov (1904–1964)
* Boris Alexandrovich Alexandrov (1905–1994)
* Boris Arapov (1905–1992)
* Yevgeny Brusilovsky (1905–1981)
* Kostiantyn Dankevych (1905–1984)
* André Hossein (1905–1983)
* Nikolay Kedrov Jr. (1905–1981)
* Daniil Pokrass (1905–1954)
* Alexander Fridlender (1906–1980)
* Zara Levina (1906–1976)
* Dmitri Shostakovich (1906–1975)
* Afrasiyab Badalbeyli (1907–1976)
* Dmitri Klebanov (1907–1987)
* Said Rustamov (1907–1983)
* Tolibjon Sadikov (1907–1957)
* Vasily Solovyov-Sedoi (1907–1979)
* Antonio Spadavecchia (1907–1977)
* Julian Scriabin (1908–1919)
* Vano Muradeli (1908–1970)
* Nina Makarova (1908–1976)
* Nikolai Rakov (1908–1990)
* Grigor Yeghiazaryan (1908–1988)
* Ivan Dzerzhinsky (1909–1978)
* Boris Mokrousov (1909–1968)
* Asaf Zeynally (1909–1932)
* Evgeny Golubev (1910–1988)
* Soulima Stravinsky (1910–1994)
* Näcip Cihanov (1911–1988)
* Dangatar Ovezov (1911–1966)
* Vladimir Ussachevsky (1911–1990)
* Mukhtar Ashrafi (1912–1975)
* Niyazi Hajibeyov (1912–1984)
* Yuri Levitin (1912–1993)
* Igor Markevitch (1912–1983)
* Vadim Salmanov (1912–1978)
* Anatoly Bogatyrev (1913–2003)
* Nikita Bogoslovsky (1913–2004)
* Veniamin Fleishman (1913–1941)
* Boris Goltz (1913–1942)
* Tikhon Khrennikov (1913–2007)
* Heorhiy Maiboroda (1913–1992)
* Valery Zhelobinsky (1913–1946)
* Sasha Argov (1914–1995)
* Serafim Tulikov (1914–2004)
* Grigory Frid (1915–2012)
* Albert Leman (1915–1998)
* Georgy Sviridov (1915–1998)
* Mutal Burhonov (1916–2002)
* Oleg Lundstrem (1916–2005)
* Veli Mukhatov (1916–2005)
* Tofig Guliyev (1917–2000)
* Jovdat Hajiyev (1917–2002)
* Gayane Chebotaryan (1918–1998)
* Gara Garayev (1918–1982)
* Galina Ustvolskaya (1919–2006)
* Mieczysław Weinberg (1919–1996)
* Aleksandr Lokshin (1920–1987)
* Yan Frenkel (1920–1989)
* Karen Khachaturian (1920–2011)
* Aleksandr Lokshin (1920–1987)
* German Galynin (1922–1966)
* Kirill Molchanov (1922–1982)
* Revol Bunin (1924–1976)
* Tatiana Nikolayeva (1924–1993)
* Mikhaïl Nosyrev (1924–1981)
* Andrei Eshpai (1925–2015)
* Lyudmila Lyadova (1925–2021)
* Lev Naumov (1925–2005)
* Vladimir Vavilov (1925–1973)
* Boris Tchaikovsky (1925–1996)
* Veniamin Basner (1925–1996)
* Vladimir Shainsky (1925–2017)
* Boris Parsadanian (1925–1997)
* Irina Elcheva (1926–2013)
* Aleksandr Zatsepin (born 1926)
* Vitaly Bujanovsky (1928–1993)
* Yevgeny Svetlanov (1928–2002)
* Edison Denisov (1929–1996)
* Aleksandra Pakhmutova (born 1929)
* Nikolai Karetnikov (1930–1994)
* Andrey Petrov (1930–2006)
* Nikolaï Sidelnikov (1930–1992)
* Mikael Tariverdiev (1931–1996)
* Sofia Gubaidulina (born 1931)
* Murad Kajlayev (born 1931)
* German Okunev (1931–1973)
* Fyodor Druzhinin (1932–2007)
* Rodion Shchedrin (born 1932)
* Sergei Slonimsky (1932–2020)
* Iosif Andriasov (1933–2000)
* Andrei Volkonsky (1933–2008)
* Yevgeny Krylatov (1934–2019)
* Zhanneta Metallidi (1934–2019)
* Alfred Schnittke (1934–1998)
* Leonid Hrabovsky (born 1935)
* Sandor Kalloś (born 1935)
* Vyacheslav Ovchinnikov (1936–2019)
* Eduard Artemyev (born 1937)
* Nektarios Chargeishvili (1937–1971)
* Misha Geller (1937–2007)
* Nikolai Kapustin (1937–2020)
* Valentyn Silvestrov (born 1937)
* Valery Gavrilin (1939–1999)
* Tigran Mansuryan (born 1939)
* Vyacheslav Nagovitsin (born 1939)
* Boris Tishchenko (1939–2010)
* Vyacheslav Artyomov (born 1940)
* Igor Khudolei (1940–2001)
* Anatoliy Andreyev (1941–2004)
* Boris Feoktistov (born 1941)
* Vladislav Shoot (born 1941)
* Viktor Suslin (1942–2012)
* Vladislav Zolotaryov (1942–1975)
* Alexander Knaifel (born 1943)
* Alexander Vustin (born 1943)
* Tatyana Chudova (1944–2021)
* Alexander Zhurbin (born 1945)
* Vladimir Martynov (born 1946)
* Alexander Mordukhovich (born 1946)
* Yury Chernavsky (born 1947)
* Vladimir Kobekin (born 1947)
* Grigoriy Korchmar (born 1947)
* Nikolai Korndorf (1947–2001)
* Vasily Lobanov (born 1947)
* Yuri Yukechev (born 1947)
* Alexander Goldstein (born 1948)
* Yakov Kazyansky (born 1948)
* Dmitri Smirnov (1948-2020)
* Leonid Bobylev (born 1949)
* Alexander Gradsky (1949–2021)
* Elena Firsova (born 1950)
* Yelena Konshina (born 1950)
* Tatyana Sergeyeva (born 1951)
* Mikhail Kollontay (born 1952)
* Lev Konov (born 1952)
* Alla Pavlova (born 1952)
* Victor Kissine (born 1953)
* Sergei Pavlenko (born 1953)
* Alexander Raskatov (born 1953)
* Leonid Desyatnikov (born 1955)
* Yuri Kasparov (born 1955)
* Alexander Levine (born 1955)
* Alexander Radvilovich (born 1955)
* Masguda Shamsutdinova (born 1955)
* Vladimir Tarnopolsky (born 1955)
* Nikita Koshkin (born 1956)
* Alexander Rosenblatt (born 1956)
* Alexandre Danilevski (born 1957)
* Mikhail Pletnev (born 1957)
* Yekaterina Chemberdzhi (born 1960)
* Ivan Sokolov (born 1960)
* Andrei Krylov (born 1961)
* Abdalla El-Masri (born 1962)
* Andrey Zelenskiy (born 1963)
* Peter Chernobrivets (born 1965)
* Yuri Khanon (born 1965)
* Fred Momotenko (born 1970)
* Dmitry Malikov (born 1970)
* Evgeny Kissin (born 1971)
* Sergej Newski (born 1972)
* Lera Auerbach (born 1973)
* Boris Elkis (born 1973)
* Irina Emeliantseva (born 1973)
* Olesya Rostovskaya (born 1975)
* Lev Zhurbin (born 1978)
* Tony Vilgotsky (born 1980)
* Nikolay Sivchuk (born 1981)
* Timur Ismagilov (born 1982)
* Alissa Firsova (born 1986)
* Sonya Belousova (born 1990)
* Vyacheslav Kruglik
* Anastasiya Bespalova
* Svetlana Nesterova