Kazimieras Viktoras Banaitis ( lit. Kazimieras Viktoras Banaitis ; March 5, 1896 , village of Vaitiekupiai, Suwalk province , Russian Empire (now Shakiai region of Lithuania ) - December 25, 1963 , New York , USA ) - Lithuanian composer , conductor and music teacher . Professor (1937). Head of the Kaunas Conservatory (1937-1943).
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Content
- 1 Biography
- 2 Creativity
- 3 notes
- 4 References
Biography
Born in the family of Salyamonas Banaitis , publisher , banker and political activist.
He studied at the Lithuanian school founded by his father, later at the Russian gymnasium, took private music lessons in 1911–1914. He attended a music school. He studied piano (class E. Lopushki-Villersinsky), music theory. In the spring of 1914, he first participated in a public concert.
After the outbreak of World War I, he was evacuated to the depths of Russia in Roslavl ( Smolensk province ). Here in 1914-1915. studied at the gymnasium. He entered the law faculty of St. Petersburg University in 1915, but returned to Lithuania the same year and did not stay long in Vilnius .
In autumn he moved to Kaunas , taught history, geography, Latin, German and French in the first Lithuanian gymnasium founded by his father. He founded a choir of 40 participants (1916), which successfully performed in the composer's homeland.
He continued his studies at the Prague Conservatory, from 1922 to 1928 he studied philosophy and art history at the University of Leipzig . He graduated from the Leipzig Conservatory , where he studied composition under the direction of Siegfried Karg-Elert . In 1928 he returned to Kaunas. Then, since 1933, he taught harmony, the theory of music and piano at the Kaunas Conservatory . Professor (since 1937). In 1937-1943 (with a break) - Director of the Conservatory in Kaunas.
From 1944 to 1949 he lived in Germany, then moved to New York .
Creativity
The author of a number of vocal and instrumental plays for the choir, solo songs. He edited about 500 Lithuanian folk songs, many of which were published in separate textbooks: Folk Choir (1934-1935), Folk Song for Mixed Choir (1948, Germany ), Folk Songs for Mixed Choir (1950, Chicago ), “Folk songs for a mixed choir” (1951, Chicago ), “100 folk songs” (1951, Chicago ), “Aušrelė vakarinė” (1987, Vilnius ), “30 folk songs for the male choir a cappella” (1991, Kaunas ) and “88 Folk Songs” (1993, Chicago).
He composed the opera Jurate and Castitis (1955), two cantatas, a number of piano pieces, chamber music, etc.
Notes
- ↑ German National Library , Berlin State Library , Bavarian State Library , etc. Record # 1029445583 // General regulatory control (GND) - 2012—2016.
Links
- Kazimieras Viktoras Banaitis (lit.)