Stasys Simkus
Stasys Šimkus (* January 23 . Jul / 4. February 1887 greg. In Motiškiai, jurbarkas district municipality , Russian Empire ; † 15. October 1943 in Kaunas ) was a Lithuanian composer.
Life
Šimkus studied in Vilnius , Warsaw and from 1908 to 1914 at the St. Petersburg Conservatory with Anatoli Ljadow , Jāzeps Vītols and Maximilian Steinberg . After a stay in the USA from 1915 to 1920, he continued his studies in Leipzig with Paul Graener and Sigfrid Karg-Elert and in Berlin with Max von Schillings in 1921/22 . In 1923 he founded a private music school in Klaipėda , from which the state conservatory emerged . From 1931 he was conductor at the State Opera of Kaunasand most recently taught as a composition professor at the Kaunas Conservatory .
Šimkus composed an opera , cantatas, orchestral works, church, chamber, piano, choral music and songs.
His grave is in the Petrašiūnai cemetery in Kaunas .
family
His son Algis Šimkus (1917–2012) became known as a conductor, pianist and composer.
literature
- Lietuvos albumas. Janina Markevičaitė, Liudas Gira, Adomas Kliučinskis - Kaunas / Otto Elsner, Berlin, 1921 mp 406.
Web links
- Biography in: dic.academic.ru (Russian)
- Stasys Šimkus at Discogs (English)
- Sheet music and audio files from Stasys Simkus in the International Music Score Library Project
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c Renata Varanavičiūtė: Stasys Šimkus in: Music Information Center Lithuania
- ↑ Simkus, Stasis. In: Grove Music Online (English; subscription required).
- ↑ a b c Dana Palionytė: Stasys Šimkus in: Visuotinė lietuvių enciklopedija (VLE) 2013, last update August 8, 2018
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Šimkus, Stasys |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Lithuanian composer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 4, 1887 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Motiškiai |
| DATE OF DEATH | October 15, 1943 |
| Place of death | Kaunas |