Stasys Šimkus
Illustration — Stasys Šimkus Stasys Šimkus (23 January 1887, Motiškiai, now in Jurbarkas district municipality, Russian Empire – 15 October 1943, Kaunas, Reichskommissariat Ostland) was a Lithuanian composer. Šimkus studied in Vilnius and Warsaw and later became the pupil of Anatoly Konstantinovich Lyadov, Jāzeps Vītols, and Maximilian Steinberg. After visiting the United States, he went to Leipzig for further studies with Paul Graener and Sigfrid Karg-Elert. A national Romantic, Šimkus helped resurrect the Lithuanian cultural organization Daina in 1916.
Stasys Šimkus
Adomas Kliučinskis, uploaded by Rimantas Lazdynas · Lietuvos albumas. Janina Markevičaitė, Liudas Gira, Adomas Kliučinskis – Kaunas / Otto Elsner, Berlin, 1921 m. · Public domain
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- 1887 · Motiškiai.
- Died
- 1943 · Kaunas.
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- Russian Empire · Lithuania
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- composer · conductor · university teacher · choir director · music educator
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- music · music education
- Languages
- Lithuanian
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Born at Motiškiai in 1887, died in Kaunas in 1943.
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