Anton Lebedynets (born Bas-Lebedynets; 26 December 1894 [7 January 1895] – 17 March 1979) was a Ukrainian Soviet composer, choral conductor, and teacher. He was born in the village of Skibintsy, in the Kyiv Governorate of the Russian Empire, now in Bila Tserkva Raion, Kyiv Oblast, Ukraine.
In 1921, he graduated from the Kyiv Music and Drama Institute, and in 1924 from the Higher Three-Year Pedagogical Courses in Rzhyshchiv. From 1924 to 1932 he taught at the Cherkasy Pedagogical Institute. He completed an external course in choral conducting at the Kharkiv Music and Drama Institute in 1932, then undertook postgraduate study under Semen Bohatyryov.
From 1933, Lebedynets worked in Kharkiv, directing the Red Army ensemble of the Kharkiv Military District, teaching at an evening music school and a technical school, and conducting amateur choirs. From 1944 he taught at the Kharkiv Conservatory. He served as dean of its choral-conducting department in 1946–1947, headed the department of music theory and composition from 1950, and was rector from 1951 to 1962. From 1965 he was acting professor in the choral-conducting department.
Lebedynets wrote songs and choral works to texts by the Ukrainian poets Volodymyr Sosiura, Pavlo Tychyna, and Ivan Nekhoda. His works include “The Tractor Driver,” “Red Army Men,” “Dnieper Hydroelectric Station,” “O Native Party!,” “The Party Leads,” “Glory to Our Great Lenin,” and “Our Glory.” In 1949 he led a group of composers who wrote the music for the State Anthem of the Ukrainian SSR. He was named Honored Artist of the Uzbek SSR in 1943 and Honored Artist of the Ukrainian SSR in 1949, and received two Orders of the Red Banner of Labour.
He died in Kharkiv on 17 March 1979 and was buried at Kharkiv City Cemetery No. 2. From 1948 he was a member of the Union of Composers of Ukraine and its Kharkiv branch board.