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Aus Wikipedia. Nicht dargestellt. Auszug: Mikalojus Konstantinas Čiurlionis, also known as M. K. Čiurlionis (22 September 1875 -10 April 1911) was a Lithuanian painter and composer. Čiurlionis contributed to symbolism and art nouveau and was representative of the fin de siècle epoch. During his short life he composed about 250 pieces of music and created about 300 paintings. The majority of his paintings are housed in the M. K. Čiurlionis National Art Museum in Kaunas, Lithuania. His works have had a profound influence on modern Lithuanian culture. The asteroid 2420 Čiurlionis is named after him. Mikalojus Konstantinas Čiurlionis was born in Senoji Varėna, the oldest of nine children of his father, Constantine, and his mother, Adele. In those years many educated Lithuanians spoke Polish instead of Lithuanian. The family Čiurlionis grew up in was no exception. He nevertheless considered himself Lithuanian rather than Polish. In 1878 his family moved to Druskininkai, where his father became the town organist. Čiurlionis was a musical prodigy: he could play by ear at age three and could sight-read music freely by age seven. Three years out of primary school, he went to study at the musical school of Prince Michał Oginski where he learned to play several orchestral instruments, in particular the flute, from 1889 to 1893. Čiurlionis studied piano and composition at the Warsaw Conservatory from 1894 to 1899. For his graduation, in 1899, he wrote a cantata for mixed chorus and symphonic orchestra titled De Profundis, with the guidance of the composer Zygmunt Noskowski. Later he attended composition lectures at the Leipzig Conservatory (1901 to 1902), and studied drawing at the Warsaw School of Fine Arts from 1904 to 1906. He was one of the initiators of, and a participant in, the First Exhibition of Lithuanian Art that took place in 1907 in Vileišis Palace, Vilnius. Soon after this event the Lithuanian Union of Arts was founded, and ...http://booksllc.net/?l=de ... Read more

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Most comprehensive work on Mikalojus Ciurlionis to date
Stasys Gostautas offers a comprehensive edited introduction to andanalysis of Mikalojus Konstantinas Ciurlionis (1875-1911), the Lithuanianartist and composer who is just now beginning to emerge in the artsconsciousness of the West.

Thiry-five essays invite you to get aquaintedwith the enigmatic Ciurlionis: biographically, through the eyes of avariety of contemporaries, as well as exploring Ciurlionis art and musicanalytically and in the forces influencing his popularity or in the case ofthe West, his obscurity.

Ciurlionis had a mystic-spiritual quality.Yousee it when mentioning his name to any informed Eastern European andespecially Lithuanians.His work has a profound impact on the identity ofmillions of people and in many ways his art and music define the Lithuanianpsyche and identity.

This book definitely offers our best opportunity todate for the rest of the world to discover what Lithuanians have known forover 75 years.

I would highly recommend obatining this book. As withothers that illuminate Ciurlionis life, they tend to be difficult to finddue to limited printing runs.

Another related great book you should addto your wish list, but unfortunately is out of print right now, isLansbergis' "M.K. Ciurlionis. Time and Content".This would bethe ideal companion to Gostautas' work. ... Read more