Juozas Gruodis
Juozas Gruodis (born December 20, 1884 in Rokėnai near Dusetos , Zarasai Rajongemeinde , † April 16, 1948 in Kaunas ) was a Lithuanian composer and music teacher.
Life
Gruodis was an organist in the provinces before studying at the Moscow Conservatory from 1915 to 1916 and from 1920 to 1924 with Paul Graener at the Leipzig Conservatory . After his return he was the conductor of the National Opera from 1924 to 1927. He founded the Kaunas Conservatory, the first university-level music school in Lithuania, where he worked as a rector and composition teacher. One of his students was Julius Juzeliūnas .
Following on from Mikalojus Konstantinas Čiurlionis , his compositions combined folk Lithuanian music with the modern - late romantic - currents of his time. He composed a. a. two symphonic poems , two orchestral suites , a string quartet , two piano sonatas , songs , a ballet , drama music and folk song arrangements .
The Kaunas Conservatory was named after his name .
Web links
- Šarūnas Nakas, Ramunė Kazlauskaitė: Juozas Gruodis in: Music Information Center Lithuania (English)
- Short biography ( memento from December 17, 2012 in the web archive archive.today ) (Lithuanian)
- Juozas Gruodis Memorial ( January 11, 2014 memento in the Internet Archive ), branch of the Mikas and Kipras Petrauskas Museum of Lithuanian Music
- Gruodis Museum (Lithuanian)
- Juozas Gruodis at Discogs (English)
- Sheet music and audio files by Juozas Gruodis in the International Music Score Library Project
Individual evidence
- ↑ Algirdas Jonas Ambrazas: Gruodis, Juozas. In: Ludwig Finscher (Hrsg.): The music in past and present . Second edition, personal section, volume 8 (Gribenski - Hilverding). Bärenreiter / Metzler, Kassel et al. 2002, ISBN 3-7618-1118-7 ( online edition , subscription required for full access)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Gruodis, Juozas |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Gruodis, Jonas |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Lithuanian composer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 20, 1884 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Rokėnai |
| DATE OF DEATH | April 16, 1948 |
| Place of death | Kaunas |