List of composers of Russian sacred music

This is a list of composers of Russian sacred music / sacral music / religious music (see also Russian Orthodox Church), alphabetically sorted by surname, then by other names. It consists primarily, but not exclusively, of Russian (classical) composers, also of Ukraine and Belarus and other countries in tradition of Eastern Orthodoxy (especially of the Russian Empire and his successors). For a long time the Russian sacred music centered around the St. Peterburg Court Chapel (the Court Chapel Choir or Kapella[1]).[2]

The following list of composers is by no means complete. It is limited to composers of sacred (sacral/religious) music. Some names are given together with the religious title (Archimandrit, Archpriest, Deacon, Hieromonk, Metropolitan, Protopsaltis etc.). For lists of (non-religious) music by music composers by other classifications, see lists of composers.

List[3]

A

Hilarion Alfeyev, 2011

B

Dmitry Bortniansky
Nikolai Bakhmetev

C

D

F

G

Mikhail Glinka
All-Night Vigil (ru) of Alexander Grechaninov

H

I

Mikhail Ippolitov-Ivanov
  • Andrei Ilyashenko (1884–1954)
  • Mikhail Ippolitov-Ivanov (1859–1935)
  • Pavel Ivanov-Radkevich (1878–1942)
  • Priest Georgi Izvekov (1874–1937)

K

Alexander Kastalsky

L

Alexei Lvov, Maestro of the Imperial Chapel in St Petersburg

M

  • Pavel Makarov (mid-19th c.-)
  • H. Manolov (fl. 20th c.)
  • Vladimir Martynov (1946–)
  • Archpriest Stephan Meholick (1904–1977)
  • Archpriest Vasily Metallov (1862–1926)
  • Priest Ivan Moody (1964–)
  • Archimandrite Matfey Mormyl (1938–2009)
  • Vladimir Morosan

N

Alexander Nikolsky

O

  • Walter G. Obleschuk

P

R

Sergei Rachmaninoff, composer of the Liturgy of St. John Chrysostom

S

Igor Stravinsky, composer of the Symphony of Psalms

T

Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, composer of the Liturgy of St. John Chrysostom
Sergei Taneyev (composer of At the Reading of a Psalm По прочтении псалма)

V

  • Alexander Varlamov (1801–1848)
  • Artemy Vedel (c. 1767–1808)
  • Priest Mikhail Vinogradov (1809–1888)
  • Anton Viskov (1965–)
  • Pavel Vorotnikov (1804–1876)
  • Hieromonk Viktor Vysotsky (1791–1871)

Y

Z

  • D. Zlatanov (fl. 19th c.)

See also

References

  1. ^ The Court Chapel Choir or Kapella “was the only institution providing specialised musical education which included instrumental performance, music theory and choral training. The choristers’ main function was to provide music at the liturgical services of the imperial churches which included the chapels at the Winter Palace, Peterhof and Tsarskoe Selo, the Cathedral at the Peter and Paul Fortress and the Anichikov Palace.” (John Nelson: The significance of Rimsky-Korsakov in the development of a Russian national identity. Studia Musicologica Universitatis Helsingiensis, Volumes 25, 2013 (dissertation), p. 129)
  2. ^ Cf. Carolyn Cairns Ritchie: The Russian Court Chapel Choir: 1796 - 1917. University of Glasgow 1994 (Ph.D. dissertation)
  3. ^ Cf. musicarussica.com, archangelvoices.com, orthodoxchoral.org (partly with further biographical information).
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