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This is a list of signifcant Ukrainian composers that were either born in Ukraine or were ethnically Ukrainian.
| Composer |
Life Span |
City of Birth |
Significant Works |
| Mykola Lysenko |
1842-1912 |
Poltava oblast |
Operas: Taras Bulba, Natalka Poltavka |
| Kyrylo Stetsenko |
1882-1922 |
Cherkashchyna |
|
| Dmytro Bortniansky |
1751-1825 |
Hlukhiv |
Italian operas, many choral works in numerous languages |
| Filaret Kolessa |
1871-1947 |
Lviv oblast |
Ukrainian ethnographic musicology |
| Maksym Berezovsky |
1745-1777 |
Hlukhiv? |
first Ukrainian to compose an opera, symphony, and violin sonata |
| Mykhailo Haivoronsky |
1892-1949 |
Zalischyky |
|
| Reinhold Glière |
1875-1956 |
Kiev |
Numerous orchestral works, concertos, ballets, vocal works |
| Mykola Leontovych |
1877-1921 |
Selevyntsi (Podilia) |
Shchedryk (aka Carol of the Bells in English translation) |
| Boris Lyatoshynsky |
1895-1968 |
Zhitomir |
|
| Mykola Markevych |
1804-1860 |
Dunaiets |
|
| Sergei Prokofiev |
1891-1953 |
Krasnoe |
see List of compositions by Sergei Prokofiev |
| Mykhailo Verbytsky |
1815-1870 |
Lemkivshchyna |
Ukraine national anthem |
| Semen Hulak-Artemovsky |
1813-1873 |
Horodyshche |
comic opera Zaporozhets za Dunayem |
| Levko Revutsky |
1889-1977 |
Irzhavets, Pryluky |
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| Igor Markevitch |
1912-1983 |
Kiev |
|
| Volodymyr Ivasyuk |
1949-1979 |
Kitsman |
Songs: Chervona Ruta, Vodohrai |
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| Alexander Shchetynsky |
1960 |
Kharkiv |
Annunciation, chamber opera (1998) |
