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.
Renaissance[]
- Ivan IV Vasilyevich (Ivan the Terrible) (1530–1584)
Baroque[]
- Nikolay Diletsky (c. 1630 – after 1680)
- Vasily Polikarpovich Titov (c. 1650 – c. 1715)
Classical era[]
- Yekaterina Sinyavina (died 1784)
- Grigory Teplov (1711/1717–1779)
- Gregory Skovoroda (1722–1794)
- Anna Bon (c. 1739 – after 1767)
- Vasily Pashkevich (c. 1742 – 1797)
- Maxim Berezovsky (c. 1745 – 1777)
- Ivan Khandoshkin (1747–1804)
- Mariya Zubova (1749–1799)
- Dmitry Bortniansky (1751–1825)
- Mikhail Sokolovsky (1756–1795)
- Osip Kozlovsky (1757–1831)
- Fedor Mikhailovich Dubiansky (1760–1796)
- Yevstigney Fomin (1761–1800)
- Aleksey Zhilin (c. 1766 – c. 1848)
- Artemy Vedel (c. 1767 – 1808)
- Alexey Titov (1769–1827)
- Catterino Cavos (1775–1840)
Romantic[]
- Ekaterina Likoshin (1780–1840)
- Alexander Alyabyev (1787–1851)
- 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)
- Alexander Dargomyzhsky (1813–1869)
- Semen Hulak-Artemovsky (1813–1873)
- Alexander Serov (1820–1871)
- Boris Fitinhof-Schell (1829?–1901)
- Anton Rubinstein (1829–1894)
- Ivan Larionov (1830–1889)
- Alexander Borodin (1833–1887)
- César Cui (1835–1918)
- Nikolai Rubinstein (1835–1881)
- Mily Balakirev (1837–1910)
- Modest Mussorgsky (1839–1881)
- Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (1840–1893)
- Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov (1844–1908)
- Ella Adayevskaya (1846–1926)
- Alexander Arkhangelsky (1846–1924)
- Nicolai Soloviev (1846–1916)
- David Nowakowsky (1848–1921)
- Alexander Taneyev (1850–1918)
- Alexander Kopylov (1854–1911)
- Anatoly Lyadov (1855–1914)
- Sergei Taneyev (1856–1915)
- 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)
- Mikhail Matyushin (1861–1934)
- Jāzeps Vītols (1863–1948)
- Alexander Gretchaninov (1864–1956)
- Alexander Glazunov (1865–1936)
- Alexander Winkler (1865–1935)
- Vasily Kalinnikov (1866–1901)
- Vladimir Rebikov (1866–1920)
- Samuel Maykapar (1867–1938)
- Wassily Sapellnikoff (1867–1941)
- Julius Conus (1869–1942)
- Viktor Kalinnikov (1870–1927)
- Arseny Koreshchenko (1870–1921)
- Alexander Scriabin (1872–1915)
- Sergei Vasilenko (1872–1956)
- Vasily Zolotarev (1872–1964)
- Witold Maliszewski (1873–1939)
- Sergei Rachmaninoff (1873–1943)
- Serge Koussevitzky (1874–1951)
- Reinhold Glière (1875–1956)
- Yuliya Veysberg (1878/80–1942)
Modern/contemporary[]
- Pavel Chesnokov (1877–1944)
- Alexander Goedicke (1877–1957)
- Nikolai Medtner (1880–1951)
- Nikolai Myaskovsky (1881–1950)
- Nikolai Roslavets (1881–1944)
- Joseph Rumshinsky (1881–1956)
- Leonid Sabaneyev (1881–1968)
- Igor Stravinsky (1882–1971)
- Maximilian Steinberg (1883–1946)
- Alexander Vasilyevich Alexandrov (1883–1946)
- Mikhail Gnessin (1883–1957)
- Boris Asafyev (1884–1949)
- Arseny Avraamov (1886–1944)
- Ernest Pingoud (1887–1942)
- Adrian Shaposhnikov (1888–1967)
- Alexei Stanchinsky (1888–1914)
- Anatoly Alexandrov (1888–1982)
- Vladimir Shcherbachev (1889–1952)
- Boris Pasternak (1890–1960)
- Samuil Feinberg (1890–1962)
- Nikolai Golovanov (1891–1953)
- Sergei Prokofiev (1891–1953)
- Arthur Lourié (1892–1966)
- Nikolai Obukhov (1892–1954)
- Leo Ornstein (1893–2002)
- Ivan Wyschnegradsky (1893–1979)
- Dimitri Tiomkin (1894–1979)
- Joseph Schillinger (1895–1943)
- Anatoliy Novikov (1896–1984)
- Alexander Veprik (1898–1958)
- Alexander Abramsky (1898–1985)
- Sophie Carmen Eckhardt-Gramatté (1899–1974)
- Alexander Tcherepnin (1899–1977)
- Alexander Mosolov (1900–1973)
- Kazimierz Wiłkomirski (1900–1995)
- Vissarion Shebalin (1902–1963)
- Vernon Duke (1903–1969)
- Varvara Gaigerova (1903–1944)
- Aram Khachaturian (1903–1978)
- Matvey Blanter (1903–1990)
- Dmitry Kabalevsky (1904–1987)
- Gavriil Popov (1904–1972)
- Aleksey Zhivotov (1904-1964)
- Boris Alexandrovich Alexandrov (1905–1994)
- Boris Arapov (1905–1992)
- Dmitri Shostakovich (1906–1975)
- Julian Scriabin (1908–1919)
- Nina Makarova (1908–1976)
- Evgeny Golubev (1910–1988)
- Soulima Stravinsky (1910–1994)
- Igor Markevitch (1912–1983)
- Veniamin Fleishman (1913–1941)
- Tikhon Khrennikov (1913–2007)
- Georgy Sviridov (1915–1998)
- Gara Garayev (1918–1982)
- Galina Ustvolskaya (1919–2006)
- Mieczysław Weinberg (1919–1996)
- Aleksandr Lokshin (1920–1987)
- Yan Frenkel (1920–1989)
- Karen Khachaturian (1920–2011)
- Revol Bunin (1924–1976)
- Tatiana Nikolayeva (1924–1993)
- Vladimir Vavilov (1925–1973)
- Boris Tchaikovsky (1925–1996)
- Veniamin Basner (1925–1996)
- Vladimir Shainsky (1925–2017)
- Irina Elcheva (born 1926)
- Edison Denisov (1929–1996)
- Mikael Tariverdiev (1931–1996)
- Sofia Gubaidulina (born 1931)
- Rodion Shchedrin (born 1932)
- Iosif Andriasov (1933–2000)
- Alfred Schnittke (1934–1998)
- Leonid Hrabovsky (born 1935)
- Vyacheslav Ovchinnikov (born 1936)
- Nektarios Chargeishvili (1937–1971)
- Nikolai Kapustin (1937–2020)
- Valentyn Silvestrov (born 1937)
- Tigran Mansuryan (born 1939)
- Vyacheslav Nagovitsin (born 1939)
- Boris Tishchenko (1939–2010)
- Vyacheslav Artyomov (born 1940)
- Vladislav Shoot (born 1941)
- Vladislav Zolotaryov (1942–1975)
- Alexander Knaifel (born 1943)
- Alexander Vustin (born 1943)
- Alexander Zhurbin (born 1945)
- Vladimir Martynov (born 1946)
- Alexander Mordukhovich (born 1946)
- Yury Chernavsky (born 1947)
- Nikolai Korndorf (1947–2001)
- Yakov Kazyansky (born 1948)
- Dmitri Smirnov (born 1948)
- Elena Firsova (born 1950)
- Alla Pavlova (born 1952)
- Sergei Pavlenko (born 1953)
- Alexander Raskatov (born 1953)
- Leonid Desyatnikov (born 1955)
- Yuri Kasparov (born 1955)
- Vladimir Tarnopolsky (born 1955)
- Ivan Sokolov (born 1960)
- Andrei Krylov (born 1961)
- Yuri Khanon (born 1965)
- Fred Momotenko (born 1970)
- Evgeny Kissin (born 1971)
- Lera Auerbach (born 1973)
- Lev Zhurbin (born 1978)
Categories:
- Chronological lists of classical composers by nationality
- Russian composers