opera singer in her native Ukraine. Works In his works and activity, Stetsenko continued the national focus in Ukrainian music, that was started by Mykola Lysenko. Stetsenko composed over 30 solo vocal works to the words by Ukrainian poets Taras Shevchenko, Ivan Franko, Lesya Ukrainka, Oleksandr Oles and others. He wrote 42 art songs, over 100 sacred and secular choral pieces, including two liturgies and a requiem, and music to a dozen stage works. His Art Songs have been recorded by renowned British Bass Baritone Pavlo Hunka. Stetsenko's greatest and most well-known works were written a few months before the end of his life. His last work was the panakhyda written in memory of his teacher and friend Mykola Lysenko. List of major works Choral works church pieces (2 liturgies, 1 pankhyda) cantatas choruses a cappella and with piano accompaniment arrangements of Ukrainian folk songs. Plays Proposing to a Potter's daughter by Hryhorii Kvitka-Osnovianenko What Thyrsus rustled about by Spyrydon Cherkasenko Buval'shchyna by A. Velysovskyi Operas (incomplete) Polonianka Karmaliuk Haidamaky Theatre works Ifgenia in Tavridia on a drama by Lesya Ukrainka music to the poem «Haidamaky» by Taras Shevchenko Children's operas Ivasyk-Telesyk The Fox, the Cat, and the Rooster Numerous children's songs. Legacy In 1982 in celebration of the 100th anniversary of Kyrylo Stetsenko's birth, Stetsenko's house in Vepryk was transformed into a museum of the composer, with an exhibition of what was in there during his life. Besides this, the church where the composer worked was also revived. Stetsenko's grave was fancied up with a large stone monument to the composer placed next to it. See also List of Ukrainian composers - see other Ukrainian composers of the same period References External links Kyrylo Stetsenko's Biography on Ukrainian Art Song Project Pisni.org.ua THE ART SONGS | KYRYLO STETSENKO 1882 births 1922 deaths People from Cherkasy Oblast Ukrainian classical composers Ukrainian music educators Ukrainian conductors (music) Male conductors (music) 20th-century conductors (music) 20th-century male musicians