Antanas Račiūnas
{{Short description|20th-century Lithuanian composer (1905–1984)}}
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Antanas Račiūnas (4 September 1905, Užliaušiai – 3 April 1984, Vilnius) was a Lithuanian and Soviet composer and pedagogue. He was awarded People's Artist of the Lithuanian SSR in 1965.{{cite book |last=Tauragis |first=Adeodatas |editor-last=Root |editor-first=Deane |title=Antanas Račiūnas |publisher=Grove Music Online |url=http://www.oxfordmusiconline.com |access-date=14 May 2023}}
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.{{cite book |last=Tauragis |first=Adeodatas |editor1-last=Root |editor1-first=Deane |title=Kaunas |publisher=Grove Music Online |url=http://www.oxfordmusiconline.com |access-date=14 May 2023}} 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.{{cite journal |last=Wolverton |first=Vance |title=Breaking the Silence: Choral Music of the Baltic Republics. Part III: Lithuania |journal=The Choral Journal |date=1998 |volume=38 |issue=10 |page=27 |jstor=23552610 |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/23552610 |access-date=13 May 2023 |issn=0009-5028}} His students included the composers Bronius Kutavičius, Vytautas Barkauskas, Vytautas Klova, {{ill|Petras Vytautas Paltanavičius|ru|Палтанавичюс, Пятрас-Витаутас}}, and {{ill|Eduardas Balsys|lt|Eduardas Balsys}}.{{cite encyclopedia |title=РАЧЮНАС Антанас |trans-title=Račiūnas Antanas |encyclopedia=Музыкальный энциклопедический словарь |date=1990 |year= |last=Keldysh |first=Yuri |publisher=Сов. энциклопедия |location= |id= |isbn=5-85270-033-9 |url=https://www.music-dic.ru/html-music-keld/r/5578.html |access-date=12 September 2023 }}
Račiūnas' music, including 10 symphonies, was noted for incorporating folk music and adhering to principles of the romanticism movement.{{cite web |last1=Varanavičiūtė |first1=Renata |title=MICL – Music Information Centre Lithuania {{!}} Database – Classical / Contemporary – Composers – Antanas Račiūnas |url=https://www.mic.lt/en/database/classical/composers/raciunas/ |website = Music Information Centre Lithuania |access-date=14 May 2023}}
Works
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- Trys talismanai (‘Three Talismans’, 1936)
- Gintaro krantas (‘The Amber Shore’, 1940)
- Marytė (1953)
- Saulės miestas (‘City of the Sun’, 1965)
External links
- [http://bse.sci-lib.com/article095766.html Račiūnas' entry] in the Great Soviet Encyclopedia (in Russian)
References
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Category:20th-century Lithuanian male musicians
Category:Recipients of the Order of the Red Banner of Labour
Category:Lithuanian male composers
Category:Lithuanian opera composers