Antanas Račiūnas
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| Born | September 17, 1905 Užliašiai, Lithuania |
| Died | April 3, 1984 (aged 78) Kaunas, Lithuania |
Antanas Račiūnas(b. Užliašiai, near Panevėžys, Sept. 17, 1905; d. Kaunas, April 3, 1984) was a Lithuanian composer. He was awarded People's Artist of the Lithuanian SSR in 1965.[1]
Biography
He graduated from the Kaunas People's Conservatory in 1933, where he was a student of Juozas Gruodis. In 1936, he published his opera Trys Talismanai. It was one of only two works by Lithuanian composers in the original repertory of the Kaunas State Musical Theatre.[2] Between 1936 and 1939, he studied in Paris with Nadia Boulanger, Igor Stravinsky, and Charles Koechlin. He was a professor at both the Kaunas Conservatory and at the Vilnius Conservatory.[3] His students included the composers Bronius Kutavičius,[1] Vytautas Klova, and Račiūnas' music was noted for incorporating folk music and adhering to principles of the romanticism movement.[1][4]
Račiūnas was one of the first Lithuanians to make films.[5]
Works
Operas
- Trys talismanai (‘Three Talismans’, 1936)
- Gintaro krantas (‘The Amber Shore’, 1940)
- Marytė (1953)
- Saulės miestas (‘City of the Sun’, 1965)
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Tauragis, Adeodatas. Root, Deane (ed.). Antanas Račiūnas. Grove Music Online. Retrieved 14 May 2023.
- ↑ Tauragis, Adeodatas. Root, Deane (ed.). Kaunas. Grove Music Online. Retrieved 14 May 2023.
- ↑ Wolverton, Vance (1998). "Breaking the Silence: Choral Music of the Baltic Republics. Part III: Lithuania". The Choral Journal. 38 (10): 27. ISSN 0009-5028. Retrieved 13 May 2023.
- ↑ Varanavičiūtė, Renata. "MICL - Music Information Centre Lithuania | Database - Classical / Contemporary - Composers - Antanas Račiūnas". Music Information Centre Lithuania. Retrieved 14 May 2023.
- ↑ Kuhn, Annette; Westwell, Guy. A Dictionary of Film Studies (2 ed.). Oxford University Press. ISBN 9780198832096.
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