Valentina Kholopova (December 14, 1935–May 12, 2025) was a Soviet and Russian musicologist and music educator, as well as a composer and university teacher. She was born in Ryazan and died in Moscow. She earned a doctorate in art studies in 1985 and became a professor at the Moscow Conservatory, where she chaired the Department of Interdisciplinary Musicology Specializations and taught a course on the theory of musical content.
Kholopova studied at the Moscow Conservatory under Lev Mazel. From 1959, she taught solfège and musical analysis at the Gnessin School; in 1962–1963, she taught at the Glinka Gorky Conservatory. She also lectured on music theory in cities across the Soviet Union.
Her books and teaching materials addressed musical rhythm, form, texture, melody, musical themes, and musical content. Her publications included studies of Sergei Prokofiev's piano sonatas, Anton Webern, Alfred Schnittke, Sofia Gubaidulina, Rodion Shchedrin, and Vladimir Spivakov. She co-wrote several books, including works on Prokofiev, Webern, and Schnittke.
Kholopova received the Béla Bartók Prize in 1981 for a book on rhythm in the works of twentieth-century composers and the B. V. Asafiev Prize in 1991 for her book on Alfred Schnittke, co-written with Elena Chigareva. She was named an Honored Artist of the Russian Federation in 1995 and received the Russian Government Prize in Culture in 2011. She died at the age of 89 and was buried in Moscow.