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.

Baroque

 * Nikolay Diletsky (c. 1630 – after 1680)
 * Symeon Pekalytsky (born c. 1630)
 * Vasily Polikarpovich Titov (c. 1650 – c. 1715)
 * Ivan Domaratsky (second half of the 17th century – first half of the 18th century)

Classical era
• Ivan Kerzelli (fl. 18th century)

• Yekaterina Sinyavina (died 1784)

• Timofiy Bilohradsky (c. 1710 – c. 1782)

• Grigory Teplov (1711/1717–1779)

• Gregory Skovoroda (1722–1794)

• Yelizaveta Belogradskaya (c.1739 – c. 1764)

• Anna Bon (c. 1739 – after 1767)

• Vasily Pashkevich (c. 1742 – 1797)

• Maxim Berezovsky (c. 1745 – 1777)

• Ivan Khandoshkin (1747–1804)

• Mariya Zubova (1749–1799)

• Mikhail Matinsky (1750 – c. 1820)

• Dmitry Bortniansky (1751–1825)

• Mikhail Sokolovsky (1756–1795)

• Osip Kozlovsky (1757–1831)

• Fedo Dubiansky (1760–1796)

• Yevstigney Fomin (1761–1800)

• Stepan Degtyarev (1766–1813)

• Aleksey Zhilin (c. 1766 – c. 1848)

• Artemy Vedel (c. 1767 – 1808)

• Daniil Kashin (1769–1841)

• Alexey Titov (1769–1827)

• Lev Gurilyov (1770–1844)

• Catterino Cavos (1775–1840)

• Stepan Davydov (1777 – 1825)

Romantic
• Ekaterina Likoshin (1780–1840)

• Alexander Alyabyev (1787–1851)

• Mikhail Vielgorsky (1788–1856)

• 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)

• Mykola Markevych (1804–1860)

• Alexandre Dubuque (1812–1897/8)

• Alexander Dargomyzhsky (1813–1869)

• Semen Hulak-Artemovsky (1813–1873)

• Alexander Serov (1820–1871)

• Nikolay Afanasyev (1821–1898)

• Nikolai Zaremba (1821–1879)

• Pyotr Bulakhov (1822–1885)

• Boris Sheremetev (1822–1906)

• Pavel Bulakhov (1824–1875)

• Boris Fitinhof-Schell (1829?–1901)

• Anton Rubinstein (1829–1894)

• Ivan Larionov (1830–1889)

• Martha von Sabinin (1831–1892)

• Petro Nishchynsky (1832–1896)

• Alexander Borodin (1833–1887)

• César Cui (1835–1918)

• Nikolai Rubinstein (1835–1881)

• Mily Balakirev (1837–1910)

• Karl Davydov (1838–1889)

• Modest Mussorgsky (1839–1881)

• Mikhail Azanchevsky (1839–1881)

• Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (1840–1893)

• Mykola Lysenko (1842–1912)

• Leonid Malashkin (1842–1902)

• Arkady Abaza (1843–1915)

• Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov (1844–1908)

• Abai Qunanbaiuly (1845–1904)

• Achilles Alferaki (1846–1919)

• Ella Adayevskaya (1846–1926)

• Alexander Arkhangelsky (1846–1924)

• Valentina Serova (1846–1924)

• Nicolai Soloviev (1846–1916)

• David Nowakowsky (1848–1921)

• Nadezhda Rimskaya-Korsakova (1848–1919)

• Mikhail Ivanov (1849–1927)

• Alexander Taneyev (1850–1918)

• Vasily Safonov (1852–1918)

• Mykola Arkas (1853–1909)

• Nikolai Shcherbachov (1853–1922)

• Alexander Kopylov (1854–1911)

• Anatoly Lyadov (1855–1914)

• Alexander Kastalsky (1856–1926)

• Eduard Schütt (1856–1933)

• Sergei Taneyev (1856–1915)

• Nikoghayos Tigranian (1856–1951)

• Makar Yekmalyan (1856–1905)

• 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)

• Georgy Catoire (1861–1926)

• Mikhail Matyushin (1861–1934)

• Georgi Conus (1862–1933)

• Felix Blumenfeld (1863–1931)

• Alexander Siloti (1863–1945)

• Vladimir Sokalsky (1863–1919)

• Alexander Gretchaninov (1864–1956)

• Baluan Sholak (1864–1919)

• Alexander Glazunov (1865–1936)

• Alexander Winkler (1865–1935)

• Vasily Kalinnikov (1866–1901)

• Vladimir Rebikov (1866–1920)

• Samuel Maykapar (1867–1938)

• Wassily Sapellnikoff (1867–1941)

• Leonid Nikolayev (1868–1942)

• Julius Conus (1869–1942)

• Vasily Kalafati (1869–1942)

• Viktor Kalinnikov (1870–1927)

• Arseny Koreshchenko (1870–1921)

• Emil Młynarski (1870–1835)

• Lev Conus (1871–1944)

• Nikolay Kedrov Sr. (1871–1940)

• Zacharia Paliashvili (1871–1933)

• Alexander Spendiaryan (1871–1928)

• Paul Juon (1872–1940)

• Leokadiya Kashperova (1872–1940)

• Alexander Scriabin (1872–1915)

• Sergei Vasilenko (1872–1956)

• Vasily Zolotarev (1872–1964)

• Witold Maliszewski (1873–1939)

• Sergei Rachmaninoff (1873–1943)

• Nikolai Tcherepnin (1873–1945)

• Elena Gnesina (1874–1967)

• Serge Koussevitzky (1874–1951)

• Sandra Droucker (1875–1944)

• Konstantin Eiges (1875–1950)

• Reinhold Glière (1875–1956)

• Alexander Goldenweiser (1875–1961)

• Alexander Koshetz (1875–1944)

• Grikor Suni (1876–1939)

Modern/contemporary
• Sergei Bortkiewicz (1877–1952)

• Pavel Chesnokov (1877–1944)

• Alexander Goedicke (1877–1957)

• Yevgeny Gunst (1877–1950)

• Mykola Leontovych (1877–1921)

• Yuliya Veysberg (1878/80–1942)

• Ossip Gabrilowitsch (1878–1936)

• Huseyngulu Sarabski (1879–1945)

• Armen Tigranian (1879–1950)

• Jacob Weinberg (1879–1956)

• Nikolai Medtner (1880–1951)

• Nikolai Myaskovsky (1881–1950)

• Nikolai Roslavets (1881–1944)

• Joseph Rumshinsky (1881–1956)

• Leonid Sabaneyev (1881–1968)

• Vsevolod Zaderatsky (1881–1953)

• Lazare Saminsky (1882–1959)

• Kyrylo Stetsenko (1882–1922)

• Igor Stravinsky (1882–1971)

• Maximilian Steinberg (1883–1946)

• Alexander Vasilyevich Alexandrov (1883–1946)

• Mikhail Gnessin (1883–1957)

• Alexander Krein (1883–1951)

• Romanos Melikian (1883–1935)

• Yakiv Stepovy (1883–1921)

• Boris Asafyev (1884–1949)

• Vasily Agapkin (1884–1964)

• Zulfugar Hajibeyov (1884–1950)

• Leo Zeitlin (1884–1930)

• Vladimir Bakaleinikov (1885–1953)

• Uzeyir Hajibeyov (1885–1948)

• Muslim Magomayev (1885–1937)

• Joseph Achron (1886–1943)

• Arseny Avraamov (1886–1944)

• Moses Milner (1886–1953)

• Sargis Barkhudaryan (1887–1973)

• Ernest Pingoud (1887–1942)

• Yuri Shaporin (1887–1966)

• Julius Isserlis (1888–1968)

• Adrian Shaposhnikov (1888–1967)

• Alexei Stanchinsky (1888–1914)

• Mykola Vilinsky (1888–1956)

• Anatoly Alexandrov (1888–1982)

• Levko Revutsky (1889–1977)

• Vladimir Shcherbachev (1889–1952)

• Alexander Veprik (1889–1958)

• Victor Dolidze (1890–1933)

• Boris Pasternak (1890–1960)

• Samuil Feinberg (1890–1962)

• Aleksandr Yurasovsky (1890–1922)

• Issay Dobrowen (1891–1953)

• Nikolai Golovanov (1891–1953)

• Sergei Prokofiev (1891–1953)

• Alexander Chuhaldin (1892–1951)

• Arthur Lourié (1892–1966)

• Nikolai Obukhov (1892–1954)

• Aleksandr Gauk (1893–1963)

• Pylyp Kozytskiy (1893–1960)

• Leo Ornstein (1893–2002)

• Sergei Protopopov (1893–1954)

• Ivan Wyschnegradsky (1893–1979)

• Mikhail Youdin (1893–1948)

• Boris Ledkovsky (1894–1975)

• Samuel Pokrass (1894–1939)

• Nicolas Slonimsky (1894–1995)

• Dimitri Tiomkin (1894–1979)

• Boris Lyatoshinsky (1895–1968)

• Joseph Schillinger (1895–1943)

• Viktor Kosenko (1896–1938)

• Anatoliy Novikov (1896–1984)

• Sergei Aslamazyan (1897–1978)

• Lev Knipper (1898–1974)

• Alexander Veprik (1898–1958)

• Alexander Abramsky (1898–1985)

• Mischa Levitzki (1898–1941)

• Sophie Carmen Eckhardt-Gramatté (1899–1974)

• Dmitry Pokrass (1899–1978)

• Alexander Tcherepnin (1899–1977)

• Efrem Zimbalist (1889–1985)

• Isaak Dunayevsky (1900–1955)

• Isadore Freed (1900–1960)

• Alexander Mosolov (1900–1973)

• Kazimierz Wiłkomirski (1900–1995)

• Mikhail Zhukov (1901–1960)

• Artemi Ayvazyan (1902–1975)

• Sergey Balasanian (1902–1982)

• Serge Conus (1902–1988)

• Vladimir Fere (1902–1971)

• Mansur Muzafarov (1902–1966)

• Niescier Sakałoŭski (1902–1950)

• Vissarion Shebalin (1902–1963)

• Andriy Shtoharenko (1902–1992)

• Vladimir Vlasov (1902/3–1986)

• Vernon Duke (1903–1969)

• Varvara Gaigerova (1903–1944)

• Vladimir Horowitz (1903–1989)

• Aram Khachaturian (1903–1978)

• Matvey Blanter (1903–1990)

• Yuliy Meitus (1903–1997)

• Nicolas Nabokov (1903–1978)

• Dmitry Kabalevsky (1904–1987)

• Gavriil Popov (1904–1972)

• Aleksey Zhivotov (1904–1964)

• Boris Alexandrovich Alexandrov (1905–1994)

• Boris Arapov (1905–1992)

• Yevgeny Brusilovsky (1905–1981)

• Kostiantyn Dankevych (1905–1984)

• André Hossein (1905–1983)

• Nikolay Kedrov Jr. (1905–1981)

• Daniil Pokrass (1905–1954)

• Alexander Fridlender (1906–1980)

• Zara Levina (1906–1976)

• Dmitri Shostakovich (1906–1975)

• Afrasiyab Badalbeyli (1907–1976)

• Dmitri Klebanov (1907–1987)

• Said Rustamov (1907–1983)

• Tolibjon Sadikov (1907–1957)

• Vasily Solovyov-Sedoi (1907–1979)

• Antonio Spadavecchia (1907–1977)

• Julian Scriabin (1908–1919)

• Vano Muradeli (1908–1970)

• Nina Makarova (1908–1976)

• Nikolai Rakov (1908–1990)

• Grigor Yeghiazaryan (1908–1988)

• Ivan Dzerzhinsky (1909–1978)

• Boris Mokrousov (1909–1968)

• Asaf Zeynally (1909–1932)

• Evgeny Golubev (1910–1988)

• Soulima Stravinsky (1910–1994)

• Näcip Cihanov (1911–1988)

• Dangatar Ovezov (1911–1966)

• Vladimir Ussachevsky (1911–1990)

• Mukhtar Ashrafi (1912–1975)

• Niyazi Hajibeyov (1912–1984)

• Yuri Levitin (1912–1993)

• Igor Markevitch (1912–1983)

• Vadim Salmanov (1912–1978)

• Anatoly Bogatyrev (1913–2003)

• Nikita Bogoslovsky (1913–2004)

• Veniamin Fleishman (1913–1941)

• Boris Goltz (1913–1942)

• Tikhon Khrennikov (1913–2007)

• Heorhiy Maiboroda (1913–1992)

• Valery Zhelobinsky (1913–1946)

• Sasha Argov (1914–1995)

• Serafim Tulikov (1914–2004)

• Grigory Frid (1915–2012)

• Albert Leman (1915–1998)

• Georgy Sviridov (1915–1998)

• Mutal Burhonov (1916–2002)

• Oleg Lundstrem (1916–2005)

• Veli Mukhatov (1916–2005)

• Tofig Guliyev (1917–2000)

• Jovdat Hajiyev (1917–2002)

• Gayane Chebotaryan (1918–1998)

• Gara Garayev (1918–1982)

• Galina Ustvolskaya (1919–2006)

• Mieczysław Weinberg (1919–1996)

• Aleksandr Lokshin (1920–1987)

• Yan Frenkel (1920–1989)

• Karen Khachaturian (1920–2011)

• Aleksandr Lokshin (1920–1987)

• German Galynin (1922–1966)

• Kirill Molchanov (1922–1982)

• Revol Bunin (1924–1976)

• Tatiana Nikolayeva (1924–1993)

• Mikhaïl Nosyrev (1924–1981)

• Andrei Eshpai (1925–2015)

• Lyudmila Lyadova (1925–2021)

• Lev Naumov (1925–2005)

• Vladimir Vavilov (1925–1973)

• Boris Tchaikovsky (1925–1996)

• Veniamin Basner (1925–1996)

• Vladimir Shainsky (1925–2017)

• Boris Parsadanian (1925–1997)

• Irina Elcheva (1926–2013)

• Aleksandr Zatsepin (born 1926)

• Vitaly Bujanovsky (1928–1993)

• Yevgeny Svetlanov (1928–2002)

• Edison Denisov (1929–1996)

• Aleksandra Pakhmutova (born 1929)

• Nikolai Karetnikov (1930–1994)

• Andrey Petrov (1930–2006)

• Nikolaï Sidelnikov (1930–1992)

• Mikael Tariverdiev (1931–1996)

• Sofia Gubaidulina (born 1931)

• Murad Kajlayev (born 1931)

• German Okunev (1931–1973)

• Fyodor Druzhinin (1932–2007)

• Rodion Shchedrin (born 1932)

• Sergei Slonimsky (1932–2020)

• Iosif Andriasov (1933–2000)

• Andrei Volkonsky (1933–2008)

• Yevgeny Krylatov (1934–2019)

• Zhanneta Metallidi (1934–2019)

• Alfred Schnittke (1934–1998)

• Leonid Hrabovsky (born 1935)

• Sandor Kalloś (born 1935)

• Vyacheslav Ovchinnikov (1936–2019)

• Eduard Artemyev (born 1937)

• Nektarios Chargeishvili (1937–1971)

• Misha Geller (1937–2007)

• Nikolai Kapustin (1937–2020)

• Valentyn Silvestrov (born 1937)

• Valery Gavrilin (1939–1999)

• Tigran Mansuryan (born 1939)

• Vyacheslav Nagovitsin (born 1939)

• Boris Tishchenko (1939–2010)

• Vyacheslav Artyomov (born 1940)

• Igor Khudolei (1940–2001)

• Anatoliy Andreyev (1941–2004)

• Boris Feoktistov (born 1941)

• Vladislav Shoot (born 1941)

• Viktor Suslin (1942–2012)

• Vladislav Zolotaryov (1942–1975)

• Alexander Knaifel (born 1943)

• Alexander Vustin (born 1943)

• Tatyana Chudova (1944–2021)

• Alexander Zhurbin (born 1945)

• Vladimir Martynov (born 1946)

• Alexander Mordukhovich (born 1946)

• Yury Chernavsky (born 1947)

• Vladimir Kobekin (born 1947)

• Grigoriy Korchmar (born 1947)

• Nikolai Korndorf (1947–2001)

• Vasily Lobanov (born 1947)

• Yuri Yukechev (born 1947)

• Alexander Goldstein (born 1948)

• Yakov Kazyansky (born 1948)

• Dmitri Smirnov (1948-2020)

• Leonid Bobylev (born 1949)

• Alexander Gradsky (1949–2021)

• Elena Firsova (born 1950)

• Yelena Konshina (born 1950)

• Tatyana Sergeyeva (born 1951)

• Mikhail Kollontay (born 1952)

• Lev Konov (born 1952)

• Alla Pavlova (born 1952)

• Victor Kissine (born 1953)

• Sergei Pavlenko (born 1953)

• Alexander Raskatov (born 1953)

• Leonid Desyatnikov (born 1955)

• Yuri Kasparov (born 1955)

• Alexander Levine (born 1955)

• Alexander Radvilovich (born 1955)

• Masguda Shamsutdinova (born 1955)

• Vladimir Tarnopolsky (born 1955)

• Nikita Koshkin (born 1956)

• Alexander Rosenblatt (born 1956)

• Alexandre Danilevski (born 1957)

• Mikhail Pletnev (born 1957)

• Yekaterina Chemberdzhi (born 1960)

• Ivan Sokolov (born 1960)

• Andrei Krylov (born 1961)

• Abdalla El-Masri (born 1962)

• Andrey Zelenskiy (born 1963)

• Peter Chernobrivets (born 1965)

• Yuri Khanon (born 1965)

• Fred Momotenko (born 1970)

• Dmitry Malikov (born 1970)

• Evgeny Kissin (born 1971)

• Sergej Newski (born 1972)

• Lera Auerbach (born 1973)

• Boris Elkis (born 1973)

• Irina Emeliantseva (born 1973)

• Olesya Rostovskaya (born 1975)

• Lev Zhurbin (born 1978)

• Tony Vilgotsky (born 1980)

• Nikolay Sivchuk (born 1981)

• Timur Ismagilov (born 1982)

• Alissa Firsova (born 1986)

• Sonya Belousova (born 1990)

• Vyacheslav Kruglik

• Anastasiya Bespalova

• Svetlana Nesterova