About Lithuanian classical music

[elenka]

Hello!

I'd like open a topic about Lithuanian classical music Does anyone of you come from
Lithuania or already know something about it?
I'll just say a name and let's see how the discussion goes on

Mikalojus Konstantinas Čiurlionis

[redbaron]

Well I've only heard one of his pieces, a prelude for piano in D minor but I enjoyed it!

[j_menz]

Is Cesar Cui considered Lithuanian or a traitor?

[elenka]

Usually he's not included among the Lithuanian compostitor because he came from a Russian family who was living in Vilnius during the tsars egemony in the Baltic states, if I don't bad remember his father was an officer in the russian army

[indutrial]

Anyone interested in Lithuanian piano music owes it to him/herself to look into the works of Vytautas Bacevicius, a twentieth-century pianist/composer who I would rank alongside other modern piano greats like Nikos Skalkottas and Samuil Feinberg. His style vacillates between neoclassicism and Scriabinesque mysticism, but those terms are meaningless and people should just check the music out. His sibling was the great Polish female composer Grazyna Bacewicz (who also wrote some marvelous piano music in her time). Just recently, the Toccata label has been releasing some really awesome stuff by him for the first time, such as:

If any players are interested in adding some rare and exciting music to their repertoire, a few years ago I located some extremely rare early works from this composer, including a set of preludes and some Lithuanian dances (the latter still needs to be scanned). I'd be willing to pass them on to anybody who's curious.

[elenka]

Thank you for your post! Your contribution to this topic helps other people and me also to discover smething new about Lituanian music! I'm actually interested in it beacause I have studied Lithuanian language and culture, so I'm curious to get known also something more about Lithuanian composer, even if there are not very much of them

[orangesodaking]

Interesting thread!!

I don't know too much Lithuanian CLASSICAL music, but I do know of the composer Vytautas Miskinis, whose choir music my university occasionally sings: