Timofiy Bilohradsky

Tymofij Bilohradskyj (Ukrainian Тимофій Білоградський, Russian Тимофей Белоградский ( transcribed Timofei Belogradski ) * 1700 in Ukraine; † after 1760 probably in Saint Petersburg ) was a Ukrainian composer and lutenist.

Belogradski took off in 1733 with Silvius Leopold Weiss in Dresden According lessons. In 1737 he was lutenist at the court of Empress Anna Ivanovna. After her death, he entered the service of Count Heinrich von Brühl. Since the 1740s he worked at the court of Empress Elizabeth.

Belogradskis Lute Songs on Poems by Alexander Sumarokov are at the beginning of the independent development of Russian music.