List of Ukrainian composers - AbsoluteAstronomy.com

This is a list of notable Ukrainian composer
Composer
A composer is a person who creates music, either by musical notation or oral tradition, for interpretation and performance, or through direct manipulation of sonic material through electronic media...

s of classical music who were either born on the territory of modern-day Ukraine

Ukraine

Ukraine is a country in Eastern Europe. It has an area of 603,628 km², making it the second largest contiguous country on the European continent, after Russia...

or were ethnically Ukrainian

Ukrainians

Ukrainians are an East Slavic ethnic group native to Ukraine, which is the sixth-largest nation in Europe. The Constitution of Ukraine applies the term 'Ukrainians' to all its citizens...

Early Period (to end of 18th century)

Composer	Life Span	City of Birth	Significant Works
Mykola Dyletsky	1630–1690	Kiev Kiev Kiev or Kyiv is the capital and the largest city of Ukraine, located in the north central part of the country on the Dnieper River. The population as of the 2001 census was 2,611,300. However, higher numbers have been cited in the press....	Sacred choral concerti
Maksym Berezovsky Maksym Berezovsky Maksym Sozontovych Berezovsky was a Ukrainian composer, opera singer, and violinist.Berezovsky was the first Ukrainian composer to be recognized throughout Europe and the first to compose an opera, symphony, and violin sonata. His most popular works are his sacred choral pieces written for the...	1745–1777	Hlukhiv Hlukhiv Hlukhiv or Glukhov is a historic town in Sumy region of Ukraine, just south from the Russian border . As of 2001, the city's population is 35,800... ?	Sacred choral concerti, operas, violin sonata
Dmytro Bortnyansky	1751–1825	Hlukhiv Hlukhiv Hlukhiv or Glukhov is a historic town in Sumy region of Ukraine, just south from the Russian border . As of 2001, the city's population is 35,800...	Sacred choral concerti, operas, symphonies, piano sonatas
Artem Vedel	1767–1808		Sacred choral concerti

Pre-Revolutionary Period (19th century - 1910s)

Composer	Life Span	City of Birth
Semen Hulak-Artemovsky Semen Hulak-Artemovsky Semen Stepanovych Hulak-Artemovsky , was a Ukrainian opera composer, singer , actor, and dramatist who lived and worked in Imperial Russia....	1813–1873	Horodyshche
Mykola Arkas Mykola Arkas Mykola Mykolayovych Arkas was a Ukrainian composer, writer, historian, and cultural activist. Arkas completed his studies in physics and mathematics at the University of Odessa and served in the Black Sea Fleet...	1853-1909	Mykolaiv Mykolaiv Mykolaiv , also known as Nikolayev , is a city in southern Ukraine, administrative center of the Mykolaiv Oblast. Mykolaiv is the main ship building center of the Black Sea, and, arguably, the whole Eastern Europe.-Name of city:...
Petro Nishchynsky Petro Nishchynsky Petro Ivanovych Nishchynsky was a Ukrainian linguist and amateur composer. He was born in the village of Nemenka, currently in the Vinnytsia Oblast of Ukraine.-External links:* *...	1832-1896	Nemenka, Vinnytska Oblast
Mykhaylo Verbytsky Mykhaylo Verbytsky Mykhailo Mykhailovych Verbytsky was a Ukrainian Greek Catholic priest and composer. He is considered to be one of the first professional Ukrainian composers of Halychyna...	1815–1870	Lemkivshchyna Lemkivshchyna Lemkivshchyna sometimes called Lemkovyna, Lemkivshchyna, Lemkovshchina or Łemkowszczyzna, is the region traditionally inhabited by the Lemkos. It forms an ethnographic peninsula 140 km long and 25–50 km wide from the Ukrainian border within Polish and Slovak territory...
Mykola Lysenko Mykola Lysenko Mykola Vitaliiovych Lysenko was a Ukrainian composer, pianist, conductor and ethnomusicologist.- Biography :Lysenko was born in Hrynky, Kremenchuk Povit, Poltava Governorate, the son of Vitaliy Romanovich Lysenko . From childhood he became very interested in the folksongs of Ukrainian peasants and...	1842–1912	Poltava oblast Poltava Oblast Poltava Oblast is an oblast of central Ukraine. The administrative center of the oblast is the city of Poltava.Other important cities within the oblast include: Komsomolsk, Kremenchuk, Lubny and Myrhorod.-Geography:...
Mykola Markevych Mykola Markevych Mykola Markevych was a Ukrainian musician, composer, historian, ethnographer, and poet.Mykola Markevych was born in Dunaiets, Ukraine on 7 February 1804. He studied at the Saint Petersburg Pedagogical Institute from 1817 to 1820 and studied piano and composition in Moscow...	1804–1860	Dunaiets

Trans-Revolutionary Period (late 19th century - 1939)

Composer	Life Span	City of Birth	Significant Works
Filaret Kolessa Filaret Kolessa Filaret Mykhailovych Kolessa was a Ukrainian ethnographer, folklorist, composer, musicologist and literary critic. He was a member of the Shevchenko Scientific Society from 1909, The Free Ukrainian Academy of Sciences from 1929, and the founder of Ukrainian ethnographic musicology.- Biography...	1871–1947	Lviv oblast Lviv Oblast Lviv Oblast is an oblast in western Ukraine. The administrative center of the oblast is the city of Lviv.-History:The oblast was created as part of the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic on December 4, 1939...	Ukrainian ethnographic musicology
Reinhold Glière Reinhold Glière Reinhold Moritzevich Glière was a Russian and Soviet composer of German–Polish descent.- Biography :Glière was born in Kiev, Ukraine...	1875–1956	Kiev Kiev Kiev or Kyiv is the capital and the largest city of Ukraine, located in the north central part of the country on the Dnieper River. The population as of the 2001 census was 2,611,300. However, higher numbers have been cited in the press....	Numerous orchestral works, concertos, ballets, vocal works
David Nowakowsky David Nowakowsky David Nowakowsky was a Russian/Ukrainian Jewish composer, choirmaster and music teacher. Along with several contemporaries, Nowakowsky integrated traditional Jewish liturgical modes with western harmonies and styles, reinvigorating music for the synagogue. He was also noted as the music director...	1877–1921	Malyn Malyn Malyn is a city in Zhytomyr Oblast of Ukraine located about 65 miles northwest of Kiev. Population is 28,113 ....	Synagogue music, choral, organ, and orchestral works
Kyrylo Stetsenko Kyrylo Stetsenko Kyrylo Hryhorovych Stetsenko was a prolific Ukrainian composer, conductor, critic, and teacher. Late in his life he became an Ukrainian Orthodox Priest and head of the Music section of the Ministry of Education of the short-lived Ukrainian People's Republic.- Early life and Education :Kyrylo...	1882–1922	Cherkashchyna
Mykola Leontovych Mykola Leontovych Mykola Dmytrovych Leontovych was a Ukrainian composer, choral conductor, priest, and teacher of international renown. His music was inspired by Mykola Lysenko and the Ukrainian nationalist music school, along with Kyrylo Stetsenko, Alexander Koshetz, and Yakiv Stepovy...	1877–1921	Selevyntsi (Podilia)	Shchedryk which eventually became Carol of the Bells
Yakiv Stepovy Yakiv Stepovy Yakiv Stepovy - was a Ukrainian composer, teacher, and music critic. Stepovy was born Yakiv Yakymenko in Kharkiv, in the Russian Empire . Stepovy's older brother, Theodore Yakymenko, was also a composer. Stepovy was a representative of the Ukrainian musical intelligentsia of the 20th century...	1883–1921	Kharkiv Kharkiv Kharkiv or Kharkov is the second-largest city in Ukraine.The city was founded in 1654 and was a major centre of Ukrainian culture in the Russian Empire. Kharkiv became the first city in Ukraine where the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic was proclaimed in December 1917 and Soviet government was...

Post-revolutionary (Modern) Period (1920's - 1991)

Composer	Life Span	City of Birth	Significant Works
Lev Revutsky	1889–1977	Irzhavets, Pryluky Pryluky Pryluky or Priluki is a city located on the Udai River in the Chernihiv Oblast, north-central Ukraine. Serving as the administrative center of the Prylutsky Raion , the city itself is also designated as a separate municipality within the oblast...
Sergei Prokofiev Sergei Prokofiev Sergei Sergeyevich Prokofiev was a Russian composer, pianist and conductor who mastered numerous musical genres and is regarded as one of the major composers of the 20th century...	1891–1953	Krasnoe Krasnoarmiiskyi Raion The Krasnoarmiisk Raion is a raion within Donetsk Oblast in eastern Ukraine. Its administrative center is Krasnoarmiysk, but the city itself is located within the raion. Its population is 37,384 and its area is 1,316 square kilometres....	see List of compositions by Sergei Prokofiev
Mykhailo Haivoronsky Mykhailo Haivoronsky Michael Orest Hayvoronsky was a Ukrainian composer, musician, conductor, teacher, violinist, and critic.- Ukraine :...	1892–1949	Zalischyky Zalischyky Zalischyky is a small city located on the Dniester River in the southern part of the Ternopil Oblast , in western Ukraine. It is the administrative center of the Zalishchytskyi Raion ....
Borys Lyatoshynsky	1895–1968	Zhitomir
Stanyslav Lyudkevych Stanyslav Lyudkevych Stanyslav Pylypovych Lyudkevych was a Ukrainian composer, theorist, teacher, and musical activist. He was the People's Artist of the USSR in 1969. He earned a Ph.D. in musicology in Vienna, 1908...	1879–1979	Yaroslav (present-day Poland Poland Poland , officially the Republic of Poland , is a country in Central Europe bordered by Germany to the west; the Czech Republic and Slovakia to the south; Ukraine, Belarus and Lithuania to the east; and the Baltic Sea and Kaliningrad Oblast, a Russian exclave, to the north... )
Kostyantyn Dankevych	1905–1984	Odessa Odessa Odessa or Odesa is the administrative center of the Odessa Oblast located in southern Ukraine. The city is a major seaport located on the northwest shore of the Black Sea and the fourth largest city in Ukraine with a population of 1,029,000 .The predecessor of Odessa, a small Tatar settlement,...
Vitaliy Serhiyovich Hubarenko Vitaliy Serhiyovich Hubarenko Vitaliy Serhiyovich Hubarenko was a Ukrainian composer.-Life and works:...	1934–2000	Kharkiv Kharkiv Kharkiv or Kharkov is the second-largest city in Ukraine.The city was founded in 1654 and was a major centre of Ukrainian culture in the Russian Empire. Kharkiv became the first city in Ukraine where the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic was proclaimed in December 1917 and Soviet government was...
Yuly Meytus	1903–1997
Heorhiy Maiboroda Heorhiy Maiboroda Heorhiy Ilarionovych Maiboroda, sometimes transcribed in English as Georgiy or Heorhy Maiboroda or Mayboroda Heorhiy Ilarionovych Maiboroda, sometimes transcribed in English as Georgiy or Heorhy Maiboroda or Mayboroda Heorhiy Ilarionovych Maiboroda, sometimes transcribed in English as Georgiy or...
Igor Markevitch Igor Markevitch Igor Markevitch was a Ukrainian, Italian, and French composer and conductor.- Origin :Igor Markevich was born in Kiev, to an old family of Ukrainian Cossack starshyna ennobled in the 18th century...	1912–1983	Kiev Kiev Kiev or Kyiv is the capital and the largest city of Ukraine, located in the north central part of the country on the Dnieper River. The population as of the 2001 census was 2,611,300. However, higher numbers have been cited in the press....
Dmitri Klebanov	1907-1987	Kharkiv Kharkiv Kharkiv or Kharkov is the second-largest city in Ukraine.The city was founded in 1654 and was a major centre of Ukrainian culture in the Russian Empire. Kharkiv became the first city in Ukraine where the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic was proclaimed in December 1917 and Soviet government was...

Post Modernist

Composer	Life Span	City of Birth	Significant Works
Volodymyr Ivasyuk Volodymyr Ivasyuk Volodymyr Mykhailovych Ivasyuk or Volodymyr Ivasiuk was a very popular Ukrainian songwriter, composer and poet from the Ukrainian SSR...	1949–1979	Kitsman Kitsman Kitsman is a city located in the Chernivtsi Oblast of western Ukraine. It is the administrative center of Kitsman Raion, and is located at around . The town is about northwest from Chernivtsi on the road to Zalishchyky....	Songs: Chervona Ruta Chervona Ruta (song) Chervona Ruta is a popular Ukrainian song written by Volodymyr Ivasyuk in 1968 and performed by many singers. The song was never copyrighted and therefore is considered the Ukrainian folk song.... , Vodohrai
Valentyn Sylvestrov	1937-	Kiev Kiev Kiev or Kyiv is the capital and the largest city of Ukraine, located in the north central part of the country on the Dnieper River. The population as of the 2001 census was 2,611,300. However, higher numbers have been cited in the press....

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| Maksym Berezovsky

Maksym Berezovsky

Maksym Sozontovych Berezovsky was a Ukrainian composer, opera singer, and violinist.Berezovsky was the first Ukrainian composer to be recognized throughout Europe and the first to compose an opera, symphony, and violin sonata. His most popular works are his sacred choral pieces written for the...

| 1745–1777
| Hlukhiv

Hlukhiv

Hlukhiv or Glukhov is a historic town in Sumy region of Ukraine, just south from the Russian border . As of 2001, the city's population is 35,800...

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| first Ukrainian

Ukrainians

Ukrainians are an East Slavic ethnic group native to Ukraine, which is the sixth-largest nation in Europe. The Constitution of Ukraine applies the term 'Ukrainians' to all its citizens...

to compose an opera

Opera

Opera is an art form in which singers and musicians perform a dramatic work combining text and musical score, usually in a theatrical setting. Opera incorporates many of the elements of spoken theatre, such as acting, scenery, and costumes and sometimes includes dance...

, symphony

Symphony

A symphony is an extended musical composition in Western classical music, scored almost always for orchestra. A symphony usually contains at least one movement or episode composed according to the sonata principle...

, and violin sonata

Violin sonata

A violin sonata is a musical composition for violin, which is nearly always accompanied by a piano or other keyboard instrument, or by figured bass in the Baroque period.-A:*Ella Adayevskaya**Sonata Greca for Violin or Clarinet and Piano...

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| Dmytro Bortniansky

Dmytro Bortniansky

Dmitry Stepanovich Bortniansky was a Russian composer of Ukrainian origin; his father however had been born in thePolish village of Bartne, and was of Lemkos stock.....

| 1751–1825
| Hlukhiv

Hlukhiv

Hlukhiv or Glukhov is a historic town in Sumy region of Ukraine, just south from the Russian border . As of 2001, the city's population is 35,800...

| Operas, many choral works in numerous languages
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| Mykola Markevych

Mykola Markevych

Mykola Markevych was a Ukrainian musician, composer, historian, ethnographer, and poet.Mykola Markevych was born in Dunaiets, Ukraine on 7 February 1804. He studied at the Saint Petersburg Pedagogical Institute from 1817 to 1820 and studied piano and composition in Moscow...

| 1804–1860
| Dunaiets
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| Semen Hulak-Artemovsky

Semen Hulak-Artemovsky

Semen Stepanovych Hulak-Artemovsky , was a Ukrainian opera composer, singer , actor, and dramatist who lived and worked in Imperial Russia....

| 1813–1873
| Horodyshche
| comic opera

Comic opera

Comic opera denotes a sung dramatic work of a light or comic nature, usually with a happy ending.Forms of comic opera first developed in late 17th-century Italy. By the 1730s, a new operatic genre, opera buffa, emerged as an alternative to opera seria...

Zaporozhets za Dunayem

Zaporozhets za Dunayem Beyond the Danube, also referred to as Cossacks in Exile) is a Ukrainian comic opera with spoken dialogue in three acts with music and libretto by the composer Semen Hulak-Artemovsky . The orchestration has subsequently been rewritten by composers such as Reinhold Glière and...

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| Mykhailo Verbytsky
| 1815–1870
| Lemkivshchyna

Lemkivshchyna

Lemkivshchyna sometimes called Lemkovyna, Lemkivshchyna, Lemkovshchina or Łemkowszczyzna, is the region traditionally inhabited by the Lemkos. It forms an ethnographic peninsula 140 km long and 25–50 km wide from the Ukrainian border within Polish and Slovak territory...

| Ukraine national anthem
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| Mykola Lysenko

Mykola Lysenko

Mykola Vitaliiovych Lysenko was a Ukrainian composer, pianist, conductor and ethnomusicologist.- Biography :Lysenko was born in Hrynky, Kremenchuk Povit, Poltava Governorate, the son of Vitaliy Romanovich Lysenko . From childhood he became very interested in the folksongs of Ukrainian peasants and...

| 1842–1912
| Poltava oblast

Poltava Oblast

Poltava Oblast is an oblast of central Ukraine. The administrative center of the oblast is the city of Poltava.Other important cities within the oblast include: Komsomolsk, Kremenchuk, Lubny and Myrhorod.-Geography:...

| Operas: Taras Bulba

Taras Bulba (opera)

Taras Bulba is an opera in four acts by the Ukrainian composer Mykola Lysenko. The libretto was written by Mykhailo Starytsky after the novel Taras Bulba by Nikolai Gogol. The opera, which was unrevised at the time of the composer's death in 1912, was first performed in 1924...

, Natalka Poltavka

Natalka Poltavka (opera)

Natalka Poltavka is an opera in three acts by the Ukrainian composer Mykola Lysenko, based on the play Natalka Poltavka by Ivan Kotlyarevsky, first performed in 1889.-Background:...

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| Filaret Kolessa

Filaret Kolessa

Filaret Mykhailovych Kolessa was a Ukrainian ethnographer, folklorist, composer, musicologist and literary critic. He was a member of the Shevchenko Scientific Society from 1909, The Free Ukrainian Academy of Sciences from 1929, and the founder of Ukrainian ethnographic musicology.- Biography...

| 1871–1947
| Lviv oblast

Lviv Oblast

Lviv Oblast is an oblast in western Ukraine. The administrative center of the oblast is the city of Lviv.-History:The oblast was created as part of the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic on December 4, 1939...

| Ukrainian

Ukraine

Ukraine is a country in Eastern Europe. It has an area of 603,628 km², making it the second largest contiguous country on the European continent, after Russia...

ethnographic musicology

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| Reinhold Glière

Reinhold Glière

Reinhold Moritzevich Glière was a Russian and Soviet composer of German–Polish descent.- Biography :Glière was born in Kiev, Ukraine...

| 1875–1956
| Kiev

Kiev

Kiev or Kyiv is the capital and the largest city of Ukraine, located in the north central part of the country on the Dnieper River. The population as of the 2001 census was 2,611,300. However, higher numbers have been cited in the press....

| Numerous orchestral works, concertos, ballets, vocal works
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| Mykola Leontovych

Mykola Leontovych

Mykola Dmytrovych Leontovych was a Ukrainian composer, choral conductor, priest, and teacher of international renown. His music was inspired by Mykola Lysenko and the Ukrainian nationalist music school, along with Kyrylo Stetsenko, Alexander Koshetz, and Yakiv Stepovy...

| 1877–1921
| Selevyntsi (Podilia)
| Shchedryk

Shchedryk

Shchedryk is a Ukrainian shchedrivka, or New Year's carol. It was arranged by composer and teacher Mykola Leontovych in 1916, and tells a story of a swallow flying into a household to sing of wealth that will come with the following spring...

(aka Carol of the Bells

Carol of the Bells

"Carol of the Bells" is the common English language title of a Christmas carol of Ukrainian origin, which has in recent years grown in popularity, particularly in English-speaking countries. The work was originally a choral miniature composition by the Ukrainian composer Mykola Leontovych based on...

in English translation)
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| Mykola Roslavets
| 1881–1944
| Dushatyn, Chernihiv

Chernihiv

Chernihiv or Chernigov is a historic city in northern Ukraine. It is the administrative center of the Chernihiv Oblast , as well as of the surrounding Chernihivskyi Raion within the oblast...

| Orchestral and chamber atonal works, Known as Ukrainian Shoenberg
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| | Kyrylo Stetsenko

Kyrylo Stetsenko

Kyrylo Hryhorovych Stetsenko was a prolific Ukrainian composer, conductor, critic, and teacher. Late in his life he became an Ukrainian Orthodox Priest and head of the Music section of the Ministry of Education of the short-lived Ukrainian People's Republic.- Early life and Education :Kyrylo...

| 1882–1922
| Cherkashchyna
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| Mykola Vilinsky

Mykola Vilinsky

Mykola Vilinsky was a Ukrainian composer and a professor at the Odessa and Kiev Conservatories.He was descended from a Ukrainian family of hereditary nobles...

| 1888–1956
| Golta
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| Mykhailo Haivoronsky

Mykhailo Haivoronsky

Michael Orest Hayvoronsky was a Ukrainian composer, musician, conductor, teacher, violinist, and critic.- Ukraine :...

| 1892–1949
| Zalischyky

Zalischyky

Zalischyky is a small city located on the Dniester River in the southern part of the Ternopil Oblast , in western Ukraine. It is the administrative center of the Zalishchytskyi Raion ....

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| Boris Lyatoshynsky

Boris Lyatoshynsky

Boris Nikolayevich Lyatoshinsky or Lyatoshynsky was a Soviet Ukrainian composer, conductor, teacher. A leading member of the new generation of twentieth-century Ukrainian composers, he was awarded a number of accolades, including the honorary title of People's Artist of the Ukrainian SSR and two...

| 1895–1968
| Zhitomir
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| Sergei Prokofiev

Sergei Prokofiev

Sergei Sergeyevich Prokofiev was a Russian composer, pianist and conductor who mastered numerous musical genres and is regarded as one of the major composers of the 20th century...

| 1891–1953
| Krasnoe

Krasnoarmiiskyi Raion

The Krasnoarmiisk Raion is a raion within Donetsk Oblast in eastern Ukraine. Its administrative center is Krasnoarmiysk, but the city itself is located within the raion. Its population is 37,384 and its area is 1,316 square kilometres....

| see List of compositions by Sergei Prokofiev
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| Levko Revutsky

Levko Revutsky

Levko Mykolajovych Revutskyi was a Ukrainian composer, teacher, and activist. Amongst his students at the Lysenko Music Institute were the composers Arkady Filippenko and Valentin Silvestrov.-Early life and education:...

| 1889–1977
| Irzhavets, Pryluky

Pryluky

Pryluky or Priluki is a city located on the Udai River in the Chernihiv Oblast, north-central Ukraine. Serving as the administrative center of the Prylutsky Raion , the city itself is also designated as a separate municipality within the oblast...

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| Igor Markevitch

Igor Markevitch

Igor Markevitch was a Ukrainian, Italian, and French composer and conductor.- Origin :Igor Markevich was born in Kiev, to an old family of Ukrainian Cossack starshyna ennobled in the 18th century...

| 1912–1983
| Kiev

Kiev

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| Valentin Silvestrov

Valentin Silvestrov

Valentyn Vasylyovych Sylvestrov is a Ukrainian pianist and composer of contemporary classical music.-Education:Sylvestrov began private music lessons at age 15...

| 1937
| Kiev

Kiev

| Seven symphonies, three piano sonatas, piano pieces, chamber music, vocal works
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| Oleksandr Krasotov

Oleksandr Krasotov

Oleksandr Oleksandrovych Krasotov or Alexander Alexandrovich Krasotov , was emerited Ukrainian composer and laureate of many national and international prizes....

| 1936-2007
| Odessa

Odessa

Odessa or Odesa is the administrative center of the Odessa Oblast located in southern Ukraine. The city is a major seaport located on the northwest shore of the Black Sea and the fourth largest city in Ukraine with a population of 1,029,000 .The predecessor of Odessa, a small Tatar settlement,...

| Symphony, chamber, vocal music
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| Virko Baley

Virko Baley

Virko Baley is a renowned Ukrainian-American composer, conductor, and pianist. He was born in Radekhiv, Union of Soviet Socialist Republic , the only child of Petro and Lydia Baley. Before he had celebrated his first birthday, Hitler's army had invaded Poland and World War II had begun...

| b. 1938
| Radekhiv

Radekhiv

Radekhiv is a city in Lviv Oblast of Ukraine. It is administrative center of the Radekhiv Raion. Population is 9,230 .Ed Stelmach, the current premier of the Canadian province of Alberta, is descended from immigrants who arrived in Canada from Radekhiv....

| Symphony No. 1: Sacred Monuments, Dreamtime for chamber ensemble, Emily Dickinson Songbooks,
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| Volodymyr Ivasyuk

Volodymyr Ivasyuk

Volodymyr Mykhailovych Ivasyuk or Volodymyr Ivasiuk was a very popular Ukrainian songwriter, composer and poet from the Ukrainian SSR...

| 1949–1979
| Kitsman

Kitsman

Kitsman is a city located in the Chernivtsi Oblast of western Ukraine. It is the administrative center of Kitsman Raion, and is located at around . The town is about northwest from Chernivtsi on the road to Zalishchyky....

| Songs: Chervona Ruta

Chervona Ruta (song)

Chervona Ruta is a popular Ukrainian song written by Volodymyr Ivasyuk in 1968 and performed by many singers. The song was never copyrighted and therefore is considered the Ukrainian folk song....

Radekhiv

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| Roman Yakub

Roman Yakub

Roman Yakub is a composer who received his early musical training in Lviv, Ukraine. He graduated from Lviv Conservatory in 1982 with a diploma in Music Composition. In 1991 he moved to the United States, where he earned a Master's Degree in Music Composition at the University of Massachusetts...

| 1958
| Vinnytsia

Vinnytsia

Vinnytsia is a city located on the banks of the Southern Bug, in central Ukraine. It is the administrative center of Vinnytsia Oblast.-Names:...

| Phonopolis for String Orchestra, Castalian Dances for chamber ensemble
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| Alexander Shchetynsky

Alexander Shchetynsky

Alexander Shchetynsky is a Ukrainian composer. Born on 22 June 1960 in Kharkiv, in the Ukrainian SSR of the Soviet Union. His work list includes compositions in various forms ranging from solo instrumental to orchestral, choral pieces and operas....

| 1960
| Kharkiv

Kharkiv

Kharkiv or Kharkov is the second-largest city in Ukraine.The city was founded in 1654 and was a major centre of Ukrainian culture in the Russian Empire. Kharkiv became the first city in Ukraine where the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic was proclaimed in December 1917 and Soviet government was...

| Annunciation, chamber opera (1998)
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| Roman Hurko

Roman Hurko

Roman Hurko is a New York based composer specializing in Byzantine Rite Music- Biography :Roman Hurko is a Canadian of Ukrainian descent, born in Toronto, Canada . A graduate of The Yale Institute of Sacred Music and The University of Toronto Roman Hurko is a New York based composer specializing...

| 1962
| Toronto

Toronto

Toronto is the provincial capital of Ontario and the largest city in Canada. It is located in Southern Ontario on the northwestern shore of Lake Ontario. A relatively modern city, Toronto's history dates back to the late-18th century, when its land was first purchased by the British monarchy from...

| Three Liturgies, Requiem for Victims of Chernobyl

Chernobyl

Chernobyl or Chornobyl is an abandoned city in northern Ukraine, in Kiev Oblast, near the border with Belarus. The city had been the administrative centre of the Chernobyl Raion since 1932....

, Vespers
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| Svitlana Azarova

Svitlana Azarova

thumb|Svitlana AzarovaSvitlana Azarova is a Ukrainian/Dutch composer of contemporary classical music born January 9, 1976 in the Ukrainian SSR of the Soviet Union.-Early years:...

| 1976
| Izmail

Izmail

Izmail is a historic town near the Danube river in the Odessa Oblast of south-western Ukraine. Serving as the administrative center of the Izmail Raion , the city itself is also designated as a separate raion within the oblast....

/Odessa

Odessa

| Chronometer for Piano, Asiope for chamber ensemble
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| Mykola Suk

Mykola Suk

-Biography:Born in Kiev, Ukraine , into a musical family, Mykola studied at Kiev Specialized Music School and made his first public appearance at the age of eight. He later studied at Moscow Conservatory.-Pianist:...

| 1945
| Kiev

Kiev

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|Julia Gomelskaya
| 1964
| Odessa

Odessa

| Symphony, chamber and vocal music
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External links

Ukraine:Music - Britannica (many composers mentioned)

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