Stepan Hryhorovych Hrybovych-Brezhynskyi (real name - Hrybovych; b. c. 1767, Berezna - d. August 1849, St. Petersburg) was a Ukrainian singer, composer, and music teacher.
He was born around 1767 in the town of Berezna (now an urban-type settlement of Chernihiv district, Chernihiv region, Ukraine) in the family of a priest of the Church of the Ascension[1].
On December 24, 1775, among 13 other young singers, he was enrolled in the staff of the Court Singing Chapel in St. Petersburg, where he sang until 1796, on the recommendation of Mark Poltoratsky[1]. He was a student of Giuseppe Sarti and Dmytro Bortnyansky.
In 1796-1826, he was a singing teacher at the Court Chapel, assistant to its director, Dmytro Bortnyansky, in the educational process. In 1826, on the occasion of his 50th birthday, he was awarded the most honorable gift for chaplains - the "Diamond Ring". In 1830, he completed the cycle "The Circle of Simple Church Chant, Long Used at the High Court" begun by Dmytro Bortnyansky. From 1826 he collaborated with Alexei Lvov, and in 1833 he helped him create the Russian hymn "God Save the Tsar"[1]. He died in St. Petersburg in August 1849.
