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)
• 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 (born 1937)
• 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)
• Lera Auerbach (born 1973)
• Lev Zhurbin (born 1978)