Vasyl Stupnycky (1879-1945?) was an ethnographer, conductor, and composer from the Kharkiv region; he graduated from Kharkiv University and studied music in Kyiv and Moscow. Conductor of the Cathedral Choir and head of the music school in Chernihiv; in the 1920s, he conducted the Dukh Chapel, organised travelling concerts, and taught music at the studio of the Institute of Public Education in Kharkiv. He recorded the collection Songs of Sloboda Ukraine (1929); Stupnytskyi is the author of original arrangements of Ukrainian folk songs (among others, the cycle Slobozhanski Pisky) and church works.
