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 were ethnically Ukrainian.

List by century of birth

15th century

16th century

17th century

18th century

19th century 

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! Composer
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! Date
! City of birth
! Notable works
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| Mykola Markevych
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| 18041860
| Dunaiets
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| Semen Hulak-Artemovsky
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| 18131873  
| Horodyshche
| The first Ukrainian-language opera "Zaporozhian Cossack beyond the Danube"
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|Vasilii Sarenko
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|1814–1881
|Voronezh, Russia
|Malorossiyska pliaska (Ukrainian dance)
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| Mykhaylo Verbytsky
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| 18151870
| Lemkivshchyna
| Ukraine national anthem
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|Ivan A. Lavrivsky
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|1823–1873
|Lopinka, Lemko region
|religious 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)
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|Volodymyr Stepanovych Alexandrov
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|1825–1894
|Bugayivka, Izyum district, Kharkiv gubernia
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| Petro Nishchynsky
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| 18321896
| Nemenka, Vinnytska Oblast
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| Sydir Vorobkevych
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| 18361903
| Chernivtsi
| Sacred music
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|Anatol Vakhnianyn
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|1841–1908
|Siniava, Peremyshl circle, Galicia
|Kupalo, 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
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| Mykola Lysenko
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| 18421912  
| Poltava oblast
| overture from Taras Bulba, Prayer for Ukraine
The "Father of Ukrainian music". Founder of Ukrainian nationalist school of music
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|Viktor Matiuk
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|1852–1912
|Tudorkovychi, Zhovkva circle, Galicia
|folk 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
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| Mykola Arkas
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| 18531909
| Mykolaiv
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|Ostap Nyzhankivsky
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|1862–1919
|Drohobych, Galicia
|works 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 piano
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|Denys Sichynsky
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|1865–1909
|Kliuvyntsi, Husiatyn county, Galicia
|opera 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 Bondage; 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
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| Filaret Kolessa 
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| 18711947 
| Lviv oblast
| Ukrainian ethnographic musicology 
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|Mikhail Bukinik
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| 18721947
|Dubno
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|Liudmyla Volodymyrivna Aleksandrova
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|19th century
|Izium
|music for the romances "I'm looking at the sky" (lyrics by Mykhailo Petrenko) and "Blow, wind, to Ukraine" (lyrics by Stepan Rudanskyi)
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| Reinhold Glière
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| 18751956
| Kyiv
| Numerous orchestral works, concertos, ballets, vocal works
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| Oleksandr Koshyts
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| 18751944
| Romashky, near Kyiv
| Sacred music (liturgies, songs), collecting and arrangements of folk songs
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|Borys Yanovsky
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|1875–1933
|Moscow
|10 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 songs
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|1876–1945
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| Serhii Bortkevych
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| 18771952
| Kharkiv
| Works by Bortkiewicz include two symphonies, three piano concertos, a violin concerto, and a cello concerto
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| Davyd Novakivsky
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| 18771921
| Malyn 
| Synagogue music, choral, organ, and orchestral works
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| Mykola Leontovych
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| 18771921
| Selevyntsi (Podilia)
| Shchedryk which eventually became the "Carol of the Bells"
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| Stanyslav Lyudkevych
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| 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 Dovbush
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|Pavlo Senytsia
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|1879–1960
|Maksymivka, Pereiaslav county, Poltava gubernia
|operas 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 others
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| Mykola Roslavets
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| 18811944
| Dushatyn, Chernihiv
| Orchestral and chamber atonal works, Known as the Ukrainian Schoenberg
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| Kyrylo Stetsenko
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| 18821922
| Cherkashchyna
|Requiem "Zhuravli" (the cranes)
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| Yakiv Stepovy
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| 18831921
| Kharkiv
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| Vasyl Barvinsky
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| 18881963
| Ternopil
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| Mykola Vilinsky
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| 18881956
| Holta, Ananiv povit
| Symphonic suites, music for piano, and arrangements for choir and solo voices of Ukrainian, Russian, Moldavian folk songs
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| Levko Revutsky
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| 18891977
| Irzhavets, Pryluky
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| Sergei Prokofiev
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| 18911953
| Sontsivka, Donetsk
| 5 piano concertos, 9 piano sonatas, 7 symphonies, Suite from Romeo and Juliet, Suite from Lieutenant Kijé
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|Vsevolod Zaderatsky
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|1891–1953
|Rivne
|two operas, several symphonic compositions (including Symphony No. 1, 1951), chamber music, choral works (eg, the Suite on Ukrainian Folk Texts [1950] and a choral poem dedicated to Viktor Kosenko [1948]), and art songs, five piano sonatas, a suite, a cycle of 24 preludes and fugues
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| Mykhailo Haivoronsky
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| 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 songbooks
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|Pavlo Pecheniha-Uhlytsky
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|1892–1948
|Pechenihy, Vovchansk county, Kharkiv gubernia
|the 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
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| Pylyp Kozytsky
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| 18931960
| Letychivka, Cherkasy Oblast
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|Valentyn Kostenko
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|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)
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| Borys Liatoshynskyi
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| 18951968 
| Zhytomyr 
| Operas The Golden Ring (1929) and Shchors (1937), the five symphonies, the Overture on Four Ukrainian Folk Themes (1926), the suites Taras Shevchenko (1952) and Romeo and Juliet (1955), the symphonic poem Grazhyna (1955), his "Slavic" piano concerto (1953), and the completion and orchestration of Reinhold Glière's violin concerto (1956)
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|Roman Prydatkevych
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|1895–1980
|Żywiec, near Cracow
|four symphonies, the Ukrainian Suite for chamber orchestra, works for violin and piano such as the Hutsul Suite, two rhapsodies, and a sonata
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| Viktor Kosenko
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| 18961938
| St. Petersburg
| sonata for cello and piano (1923), Classical Trio for piano, violin, and cello (1927), a sonata for violin and piano (1927), Heroic Overture (1932), Moldavian Poem (1937), a piano concerto, three piano sonatas, a trio, a violin concerto, about 100 piano pieces, including 24 pieces for children (1936)
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| Stefania Turkewich
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| 18981977
| Lviv
| Her opera "Mavka" is based on Lesia Ukrainka's Forest Song
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 20th century

See also

 A–D 
  (1868, Оdesа1942, Tbilisi)
  (1816, Voronovytsia1881, Boguslav)
 Barjansky, Alexandre (1883, Odesa–1961, Brussels)
 Blumenfeld, Felix (19 April 1863 [O.S. 7 April]21 January 1931)
  (1852, Verkhniachka1920, Petrograd)
  (1850, Kyiv province1898)
 Brounoff, Platon Gregoriewitch (1859, Brounoff1924, New York)
  (1882, Odesa1943, Auschwitz)

 E–G 
 Eiges, Konstantin (1875, Bogodukhov–1950, Moscow)
 Gauk, Alexander (1893, Odesa–1963, Moscow)
 Yefim Golyshev (1897, Kherson–1970, Paris)
  (1903, Kyiv–1961, Novosibirsk, Russia)

References

Sources

Further reading
 

 External links 

 Ukraine: Music – Britannica
 Free scores by Ukrainian composers at the International Music Score Library Project (IMSLP)
 Composers listed in the  (Music archive of Boris Tarakanov) (in Russian)
 Article on the National Union of Composers of Ukraine in Internet Encyclopaedia of Ukraine''
 Explore Music by Ukrainian Composers from the Boosey & Hawkes website

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