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.
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| Composer | Date | City of birth | Notable works | |
| Mykola Markevych | 18041860 | Dunaiets, Chernihiv gubernia | collection Ukrainian melodies published in 1831 | |
| 1812-1866 | Kyiv | piano variation "Ukrainka", other piano compositions on ukrainian dance melodies such as a Kolomyika, two ukrainian dumkas and "The neighbour has a white house" | ||
| Semen Hulak-Artemovsky | 100px | 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 "Gandzia", "Hey, I'm a Cossack, my name is Volya", "Cossack boredom" | ||
| Vasyl Pashchenko | 1822-1891 | Odesa | Polonaise "On the death of Taras Shevchenko" | |
| 1823–1873 | Lopinka, Lemko region | religious and secular compositions such as "Autumn," "Zaspivai my, soloviiu", "Richen'ka", as well as the popular operettas Oman ochei, Roksoliana, and Pan Dovhonos | ||
| 100px | 1825–1894 | Bugayivka, Izyum district, Kharkiv gubernia | ||
| Petro Nishchynsky | 18321896 | Nemenka, Vinnytska Oblast | chorus from "Vechornytsy": "song of the grey Cuckoo" | |
| Vladyslav Zaremba | 1833-1902 | Dunaivtsi | more than 30 compositions to the lyrics of Taras Shevchenko | |
| Sydir Vorobkevych | 18361903 | Chernivtsi | Sacred music | |
| Apollon Hussakovskyi | 1841-1875 | Okhtyrka | "Sheet from an album" and a Scherzo for piano | |
| Anatol Vakhnianyn | 1841–1908 | Siniava, Peremyshl circle, Galicia | Kupalo, the first opera in western Ukraine ; 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 Turgenev | |
| the ballad "Konoshevych-Sahaidachnyi", elegy "Barvinok", scherzo "Rusalky", "Ukrainian lullaby", Mazurka "Podolianka" | ||||
| 1852–1912 | Tudorkovychi, Zhovkva circle, Galicia | folk song arrangements, melodramas such as "Kapral Tymko", "Neshchasna liubov", "Invalid", and "Nashi poselentsi", anthology of the works of Ukrainian composers titled Boian, school and church songbooks | ||
| Mykola Arkas | 18531909 | Mykolaiv | the opera "Kateryna" | |
| Ostap Nyzhankivsky | 1862–1919 | Drohobych, Galicia | works for choir "Hulialy" and "Z Okrushkiv", art songs for solo voice with piano accompaniment, including "Mynuly lita molodii" ; arrangements of folk songs for solo voice or choir; and Vitrohony, a cycle of kolomyika melodies for piano | |
| Denys Sichynsky | 1865–1909 | Kliuvyntsi, Husiatyn county, Galicia | opera Roksoliana ; works for symphony and chamber orchestras; piano solos; choral music, including the cantata Lichu v nevoli ; 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 | |
| Mikhail Bukinik | 18721947 | Dubno | ||
| 19th century | Izium | music for the romances "I'm looking at the sky" and "Blow, wind, to Ukraine" | ||
| Reinhold Glière | 18751956 | Kyiv | Numerous orchestral works, concertos, ballets, vocal works | |
| Oleksandr Koshyts | 18751944 | Romashky, near Kyiv | Sacred music, collecting and arrangements of folk songs | |
| Borys Yanovsky | 1875–1933 | Moscow | 10 operas, notably Sorochyntsi Fair and Black Sea Duma or Samiilo Kishka ; two ballets; orchestral pieces; chamber music works; violin and piano music; works for chorus; art songs; and arrangements of Ukrainian folk songs | |
| 1876–1945 | two 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 | Shchedryk which eventually became the "Carol of the Bells" | |
| Stanyslav Lyudkevych | 18791979 | Yaroslav | cantata The Caucasus, inspired by Taras Shevchenko's poem, The Eternal Revolutionary, The Reaper, Khor pidzemnykh kovaliv, Oi, vyhostriu tovarysha, and The Testament, Kameniari, and Vesnianky, Symfonietta, Koliadnytsia, Iunats’ke rondo, the symphonic poem The Dnieper, Prykarpats’ka symfoniia, and the opera Dovbush | |
| 1879–1960 | Maksymivka, Pereiaslav county, Poltava gubernia | operas Life Is a Dream and The Servant Girl ; two symphonies ; an overture ; 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 | ||
| Grigory Kompaneyets | 1881-1959 | Poltava |
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| Mykola Roslavets | 18811944 | Dushatyn, Chernihiv | Orchestral and chamber atonal works, Known as the Ukrainian Schoenberg | |
| Kyrylo Stetsenko | 18821922 | Cherkashchyna | Requiem "Zhuravli" | |
| Yakiv Stepovy | 18831921 | Kharkiv | Art 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 | Ternopil | works 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, Pryluky | Symphony 2 | |
| Sergei Prokofiev | 18911953 | Sontsivka, Donetsk | 5 piano concertos, 9 piano sonatas, 7 symphonies, Suite from Romeo and Juliet, Suite from Lieutenant Kijé | |
| Vsevolod Zaderatsky | 1891–1953 | Rivne | two operas, several symphonic compositions, chamber music, choral works, 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 songbooks | |
| 1892–1948 | Pechenihy, Vovchansk county, Kharkiv gubernia | the opera The Witch, the ballet Legin', the tone poem Ukraïna, three string quartets, and the cantata Biut' porohy 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, 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, the role of folk songs in Ukrainian music, the influence of German expressionism on Ukrainian music | ||
| Borys Liatoshynskyi | 18951968 | Zhytomyr | Operas The Golden Ring and Shchors, the five symphonies, the Overture on Four Ukrainian Folk Themes , the suites Taras Shevchenko and Romeo and Juliet , the symphonic poem Grazhyna , his "Slavic" piano concerto , and the completion and orchestration of Reinhold Glière's violin concerto | |
| 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 | ||
| Viktor Kosenko | 18961938 | St. Petersburg | sonata for cello and piano, Classical Trio for piano, violin, and cello, a sonata for violin and piano, Heroic Overture, Moldavian Poem, a piano concerto, three piano sonatas, a trio, a violin concerto, about 100 piano pieces, including 24 pieces for children | |
| Stefania Turkewich | 18981977 | Lviv | Her opera "Mavka" is based on Lesia Ukrainka's Forest Song |