Mykola Leontovych
Mykola Leontovych specialised in a cappella choral music. He is remembered today mostly through the musical works he left behind, which include over 150 choral compositions. These range from artistic arrangements of folk songs, religious works (including his liturgy), cantatas, and choral compositions set to the words of various Ukrainian poets. His two most famous works are the choral miniatures "Schedryk" and "Dudaryk".
Mikhail Ivanovich Popov
During 1771–1772 he translated the poem "Gerusalemme Liberata" ("Jerusalem Delivered") by Torquato Tasso. Together with Mikhail Chulkov, he published a collection of Russian folk songs. His own collection of songs, "Russian Erota or the Collection of the Best and Newest Russian Songs" ("Российская Эрота, или Выбор наилучших новейших русских песен"), was published posthumously in 1791. Popov wished to popularize Slavic mythology, which had been largely forgotten in Russia in his time, as a more patriotic alternative to Greek and Roman mythology. To this end, he conducted some rather inaccurate research and wrote the essay, "Описание древнеславянского баснословия" ("The Description of Ancient Slavic Fable-writing", 1768). He included this essay in the collection of his poems, translations and plays called "Dosugi" ("Досуги" – "Lesure Hours"), published at the request of Empress Catherine II. This collection also contained his famous libretto to the opera "Anyuta".