Ona Narbutienė
Ona Narbutienė (October 26, 1930, in Kaunas – July 10, 2007, in Vilnius) was a Lithuanian musicologist and educator. She received the Lithuanian National Prize for arts and culture in 1999, and was the author of a number of articles on Lithuanian music history and several books on Lithuanian composers and musical personalities. Narbutienė was born into the family of Lithuanian officer and spent her childhood in Klaipėda.
Ona Narbutienė
- Born
- 1930 · Kaunas.
- Died
- 2007 · Vilnius.
- Nationality
- Lithuania
- Occupation
- musicologist · university teacher · musician
- Education
- Lithuanian Academy of Music and Theatre
- Honours
- Lithuanian National Prize · Officer of the Order of the Lithuanian Grand Duke Gediminas
- Languages
- Lithuanian
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Ona Narbutienė (October 26, 1930, in Kaunas – July 10, 2007, in Vilnius) was a Lithuanian musicologist and educator. She received the Lithuanian National Prize for arts and culture in 1999, and was the author of a number of articles on Lithuanian music history and several books on Lithuanian composers and musical personalities. Narbutienė was born into the family of Lithuanian officer and spent her childhood in Klaipėda.
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In 1949, she was arrested in Vilnius and deported to Siberia, Irkutsk Oblast, where she was forced to work in brick factory. After some time she could finish her education and started working as a musical teacher in Irkutsk school. After Joseph Stalin's death she was allowed to return to Lithuania. 1955-1960 she studied at Vilnius Conservatory and started researching music history. Narbutienė organized the musical program of the Thomas Mann Festival in Nida from its inception in 1995 until 2007. The summer festival, under her sponsorship, was dedicated to topics such as Thomas Mann and Richard Wagner (1998), Thomas Mann and the myth (2000) and Thomas Mann and the North (2001). The programs combined concerts, readings, exhibitions, theatre performances, and film screenings. She described the festival's concept as revolving around the connections of Thomas Mann to music. She also contributed to the inclusion of song and dance celebrations in Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania in UNESCO's Masterpieces of the Oral and Intangible Heritage of Humanity.
Ona Narbutienė studied at Lithuanian Academy of Music and Theatre. The recorded working language is Lithuanian. Employment is recorded with Lithuanian Academy of Music and Theatre. Distinctions recorded are Lithuanian National Prize and Officer of the Order of the Lithuanian Grand Duke Gediminas.
Ona Narbutienė is recorded with the occupation university teacher. Recorded with the occupation musicologist. Recorded with the occupation musician. Recorded as musicologist, university teacher and musician. Within the Encyclopedia. Connected to 3 other published records in the VALÉORINE Encyclopedia.
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1930
Ona Narbutienė was born on 26 October 1930.
2007
Ona Narbutienė died on 10 July 2007.
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- From the Correspondence of Musicologist Ona Narbutienė: Letters from Composer Jeronimas Kačinskas, Menotyra, 2021
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