Bortniansky, Dimitri Stepanovich (1752–1825)

Ukrainian composer. He studied in Moscow and St Petersburg (Leningrad) under the Italian composer Baldassare Galuppi, whom he followed to Italy in 1768 with a grant from Catherine II. After further studies in Bologna, Rome, and Naples, he wrote motets and operas in Venice in 1776 and in Modena in 1778. In 1779 he returned to Russia and became director of the Imperial church choir, which he reformed and turned into the Imperial Chapel in 1796.

Works Opera Le Faucon (1786), Le Fils rival (1787), Creonte, Quinto Fabio (1778).

Other 35 sacred concertos, 10 concertos for double choir, Mass, chants.