{"id":27,"date":"2020-11-16T00:35:18","date_gmt":"2020-11-15T21:35:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gidas.mkcnamai.lt\/?page_id=27"},"modified":"2022-09-14T01:02:14","modified_gmt":"2022-09-13T22:02:14","slug":"pirmas","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/gidas.mkcnamai.lt\/en\/","title":{"rendered":"pirmas"},"content":{"rendered":"<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-page\" data-elementor-id=\"27\" class=\"elementor elementor-27\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-inner\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-section-wrap\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"has_eae_slider elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-5a3049da elementor-section-height-min-height elementor-section-content-top elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-items-middle\" data-id=\"5a3049da\" data-element_type=\"section\" id=\"sk1\" data-settings=\"{&quot;background_background&quot;:&quot;classic&quot;}\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-extended\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-row\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"has_eae_slider elementor-column elementor-col-33 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-38db85d\" data-id=\"38db85d\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-settings=\"{&quot;background_background&quot;:&quot;classic&quot;}\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-d09f9e2 elementor-widget elementor-widget-image\" data-id=\"d09f9e2\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"image.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-image\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1200\" height=\"686\" src=\"https:\/\/gidas.mkcnamai.lt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/titulsiena20190319.jpg\" class=\"attachment-full size-full\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" srcset=\"https:\/\/gidas.mkcnamai.lt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/titulsiena20190319.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/gidas.mkcnamai.lt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/titulsiena20190319-300x172.jpg 300w, https:\/\/gidas.mkcnamai.lt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/titulsiena20190319-1024x585.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/gidas.mkcnamai.lt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/titulsiena20190319-768x439.jpg 768w, https:\/\/gidas.mkcnamai.lt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/titulsiena20190319-16x9.jpg 16w, https:\/\/gidas.mkcnamai.lt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/titulsiena20190319-150x85.jpg 150w, https:\/\/gidas.mkcnamai.lt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/titulsiena20190319-600x343.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" \/>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"has_eae_slider elementor-column elementor-col-33 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-2dd5365b\" data-id=\"2dd5365b\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-45e56fa3 elementor-widget__width-auto elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"45e56fa3\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-text-editor elementor-clearfix\">\n\t\t\t\t<h5 style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">1. THE \u010cIURLIONIS HOUSE IN VILNIUS<br \/><\/span><\/h5>\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-43e1a80 elementor-widget elementor-widget-wp-widget-media_audio\" data-id=\"43e1a80\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-no-translation=\"\" data-widget_type=\"wp-widget-media_audio.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t<style>.elementor-element-43e1a80{display:none !important}<\/style>\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-f718452 elementor-widget elementor-widget-wp-widget-media_audio\" data-id=\"f718452\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-no-translation=\"\" data-widget_type=\"wp-widget-media_audio.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-27-2\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" 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data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-1ff2e61 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"1ff2e61\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-text-editor elementor-clearfix\">\n\t\t\t\t<p>Mikalojus Konstantinas \u010ciurlionis rented a room in this house in the autumn of 1907 when he moved to Vilnius.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-ce734b0 elementor-widget elementor-widget-jet-view-more\" data-id=\"ce734b0\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"jet-view-more.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"jet-view-more\" 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id=\"01-tekstas\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-91fefa0 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"91fefa0\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-text-editor elementor-clearfix\">\n\t\t\t\t<p>\u010ciurlionis was already a mature, acclaimed artist and composer when he joined the Lithuanian cultural movement. He was an innovator who believed in the power of art to change the world and that community building was just as important as personal creative self-expression. During the time that he lived here, \u010ciurlionis conducted a Lithuanian choir, taught music, organized exhibitions and concerts and was actively involved in Lithuanian cultural life.  His work fostered the vision of a creative and spiritual Lithuania.<\/p><p>The educational programs offered at the \u010ciurlionis House focus on nurturing creativity and finding connections between differing forms of artistic expression. Our wide range of programs are attended by preschoolers to senior citizens. Talented young music and art students who are just beginning their journey towards the big stage are frequent visitors in this house. Some of our exhibitions explore the environment in which \u010ciurlionis created and others show works that have been inspired by his creative legacy. The concerts that take place here also reflect \u010ciurlionis' heritage and his goal of being able to experience music as a living, constantly changing form of creativity that provides many spiritual insights.<\/p><p>\u010ciurlionis' legacy is especially relevant at our cultural evenings when we have book presentations, movie screenings and discussion panels. Our sightseeing tours in Vilnius stop at the places where \u010ciurlionis performed concerts and rehearsed with the Lithuanian choir and where exhibitions of his paintings took place. For those who prefer to discover \u010ciurlionis places in Vilnius individually, our interactive mobile app \"\u010ciurlionis in Vilnius\" is available on both main mobile platforms free of charge.<\/p><p>The \u010ciurlionis House works closely with the National \u010ciurlionis Cultural Route, which lets you follow in the footsteps of the artist along seven cities in Lithuania. The \u010ciurlionis House has played a leading role in creating cultural programs along this route.<\/p><p>The \u010ciurlionis House strives to make the name of this creative genius as widely known in the world as possible by organizing conferences, international forums, traveling art exhibits and concerts. We also host creative projects that focus on interpretations of \u010ciurlionis' works by internationally recognized artists.<\/p><p>The \u010ciurlionis House invites you to visit us through the words of the master himself,<\/p><p>\"Come along with me, my friend, if you\u2019d like to. I\u2019m in a hurry to get to that land and along the way I will tell you some very interesting things.\u201d<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<section class=\"has_eae_slider elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-f0b7002 elementor-section-height-min-height elementor-section-content-top elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-items-middle\" data-id=\"f0b7002\" data-element_type=\"section\" id=\"sk2\" data-settings=\"{&quot;background_background&quot;:&quot;classic&quot;}\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-extended\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-row\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"has_eae_slider elementor-column elementor-col-33 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-64054d7\" data-id=\"64054d7\" 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https:\/\/gidas.mkcnamai.lt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Skelbimas-VZ-768x452.jpg 768w, https:\/\/gidas.mkcnamai.lt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Skelbimas-VZ-16x9.jpg 16w, https:\/\/gidas.mkcnamai.lt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Skelbimas-VZ-600x353.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"has_eae_slider elementor-column elementor-col-33 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-8aeaee7\" data-id=\"8aeaee7\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-f878fa4 elementor-widget__width-auto elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"f878fa4\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-text-editor elementor-clearfix\">\n\t\t\t\t<h5 style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">2. \u010cIURLIONIS\u2019 ROOM THROUGH THE EYES OF HIS CONTEMPORARIES<br \/><\/span><\/h5>\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-2cd5a6f elementor-widget elementor-widget-wp-widget-media_audio\" data-id=\"2cd5a6f\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-no-translation=\"\" data-widget_type=\"wp-widget-media_audio.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t<style>.elementor-element-2cd5a6f{display:none !important}<\/style>\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-ee5d083 elementor-widget elementor-widget-wp-widget-media_audio\" data-id=\"ee5d083\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-no-translation=\"\" 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!important}<\/style>\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"has_eae_slider elementor-column elementor-col-33 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-4d05866\" data-id=\"4d05866\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-4553372 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"4553372\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-text-editor elementor-clearfix\">\n\t\t\t\t<p>\"After graduating from the Warsaw and Leipzig Conservatories, \u010ciurlionis has settled in Vilnius where he gives piano and music theory lessons.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-e55cf37 elementor-widget elementor-widget-jet-view-more\" data-id=\"e55cf37\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"jet-view-more.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"jet-view-more\" data-settings=\"{&quot;effect&quot;:&quot;move-up&quot;,&quot;sections&quot;:{&quot;9aeb6ff&quot;:&quot;02-tekstas&quot;},&quot;showall&quot;:false}\"><div class=\"jet-view-more__button\"><div class=\"jet-view-more__label\">read more...<\/div><\/div><\/div>\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<section class=\"has_eae_slider elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-7383547 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"7383547\" data-element_type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-row\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"has_eae_slider elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-e90a831\" data-id=\"e90a831\" data-element_type=\"column\" id=\"02-tekstas\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-319008a elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"319008a\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-text-editor elementor-clearfix\">\n\t\t\t\t<p>His address is Andrejevo Street 11, Apt. 6.\" This ad was published in the Vilnius News at the beginning of 1908 and confirmed that \u010ciurlionis was not just visiting Vilnius but had settled here. The artist's choice to live in Vilnius was a very important event for the nascent Lithuanian movement. Everyone was curious about this highly educated and internationally recognized artist. What impression did \u010ciurlionis and his work leave on those who saw it at the time? How did the composer's new friends remember his little room on this street?<\/p><figure id=\"attachment_1060\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1060\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-1060 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/gidas.mkcnamai.lt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/I-LDP-interjeras-T.-Chodzka-300x220.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"220\" srcset=\"https:\/\/gidas.mkcnamai.lt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/I-LDP-interjeras-T.-Chodzka-300x220.jpg 300w, https:\/\/gidas.mkcnamai.lt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/I-LDP-interjeras-T.-Chodzka-1024x751.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/gidas.mkcnamai.lt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/I-LDP-interjeras-T.-Chodzka-768x563.jpg 768w, https:\/\/gidas.mkcnamai.lt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/I-LDP-interjeras-T.-Chodzka-16x12.jpg 16w, https:\/\/gidas.mkcnamai.lt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/I-LDP-interjeras-T.-Chodzka-600x440.jpg 600w, https:\/\/gidas.mkcnamai.lt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/I-LDP-interjeras-T.-Chodzka.jpg 1100w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1060\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Interior of the First Exhibition, T. Chodzka<\/figcaption><\/figure><p>During \u010ciurlionis' first visit to Vilnius, during preparations for the first exhibition of Lithuanian artists at the Petras Vilei\u0161is Mansion, Ona El\u017ebieta Pleiryt\u0117-Puidien\u0117\/ Vaidilut\u0117 thus described his appearance in her diary. \u201c\u010ciurlionis' paintings are extraordinary. It's hard to even describe them. I've visited a lot of European museums, but I\u2019ve never seen anything like this. \u010ciurlionis himself is also extraordinary. He is one of those people who draws everyone\u2019s gaze and forces them to notice him, but, at the same time, he is constrained by his own unique and enigmatic personality. He is of medium age and height, with a very strong, sharply defined facial profile that isn\u2019t very appealing and rather gloomy. But his large eyes, with their deeply penetrating gaze, a calm demeanor with a clear shadow of sadness and his extraordinary intelligence set him apart from everyone else.\u201d<\/p><p>This is how the artist Lev Antokolski, who will later help \u010ciurlionis with introductions in St. Petersburg, describes his visit, \u201cI remember one autumn evening when I visited him in his tiny room on Andriejaus Street, where there was nothing but a piano, a pile of sheet music and some small, dry tree branches hung on the walls\u201d. He further commented, \u201cHe was there all alone with his brilliant ideas and the sounds of his music surprised me with their empathetic sadness that were like the sharp black wings cutting across the air in his painting Longing.\u201d<\/p><p>The composer Juozas Tallat-Kelp\u0161a provided more details about \u010ciurlionis' room in his memoirs. From him, we can get a clearer impression of the whole room, \u201cHe invited me and the next day I went to visit him. The ceiling was low, but the room was spacious. It had a narrow iron bed and a small table with a little chair next to it. His own Lippenburg brand piano had been placed along the other wall. \u010ciurlionis used to say that his piano was a very good one because it was sturdily constructed and was cheap - it only cost 350 rubles. A pine branch had been nailed on the wall at above the piano. Next to the bed there was another one. A few more small chairs and a suitcase containing all his worldly goods - manuscripts; a small batch of sheet music on the piano, a camera on the windowsill. Those were the entire furnishings of his room.\u201d<\/p><figure id=\"attachment_1059\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1059\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-1059 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/gidas.mkcnamai.lt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/h1.-MKC-vinjete-1908-300x111.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"111\" srcset=\"https:\/\/gidas.mkcnamai.lt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/h1.-MKC-vinjete-1908-300x111.jpg 300w, https:\/\/gidas.mkcnamai.lt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/h1.-MKC-vinjete-1908-1024x380.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/gidas.mkcnamai.lt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/h1.-MKC-vinjete-1908-768x285.jpg 768w, https:\/\/gidas.mkcnamai.lt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/h1.-MKC-vinjete-1908-16x6.jpg 16w, https:\/\/gidas.mkcnamai.lt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/h1.-MKC-vinjete-1908-600x222.jpg 600w, https:\/\/gidas.mkcnamai.lt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/h1.-MKC-vinjete-1908.jpg 1400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1059\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">M. K. \u010ciurlionis. Vinjet\u0117, 1908<\/figcaption><\/figure><p>\u010ciurlionis often seemed enigmatic and incomprehensible to his friends in the Lithuanian movement and, due to his weak knowledge of the Lithuanian language, he was reserved and somewhat unapproachable, but he was also magnetically attractive and intriguing with his extraordinary spiritual world. Each one of his creative breakthroughs, described by his colleagues, speak volumes about the extraordinary respect they had for his talent and once again confirm what an exceptional person lived in this room from 1907-1908. \n\nThe writer Liudas Gira witnessed one such breakthrough and immortalized the creative atmosphere in his memoirs. \u201cI found him sitting at the piano while his inspired hands played out his spiritual dream as if he had been imbued with power from the ancient god of Thunder and the keys of the piano were as if bewitched while he tried to express his impalpable longing.   He was improvising. I asked him not to stop playing his spirit\u2019s song. And I had that one single chance to listen to how geniuses, caught up in a mood of inspiration, create something just for themselves. It was a powerful improvisation worthy of Beethoven. Frenetic chords came up and disappeared, immediately replaced by wilder ones that were even more beautiful. It was as if the sea were being swayed by a great storm, and the melodies swayed along with it. The piano cried and wailed like an old woman from Dz\u016bkija, sadly lamenting her only son being buried in a small hill of white sand. And so, thunder pealed once again as if all of the ancient gods had gathered to take revenge for the contempt shown for them, or as if witches were flying in at midnight for a coven at the pine tree where the man had hung himself in the forests of Dz\u016bkija.\n\nHe finished and started another one. His hands were like lightning extracting chords from all over the keyboard, giving birth to them in both major and minor keys. Soft piano melodies and loud forte ones swayed like the tops of Dz\u016bkija\u2019s pine trees surrounded by wind, slowly at first from afar and then suddenly shaking the whole forest with a great roar. And in that roar of sound I started to hear the peal of our sad and powerful bells that kept steadily increasing. And they pierced my heart so much it was as if the bells were resounding and vibrating right inside it.\"<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<section class=\"has_eae_slider elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-7a9ca93 elementor-section-height-min-height elementor-section-content-top elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-items-middle\" data-id=\"7a9ca93\" data-element_type=\"section\" id=\"sk3\" data-settings=\"{&quot;background_background&quot;:&quot;classic&quot;}\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-extended\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-row\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"has_eae_slider elementor-column elementor-col-33 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-07931ae\" data-id=\"07931ae\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-settings=\"{&quot;background_background&quot;:&quot;classic&quot;}\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-aca85ea elementor-widget elementor-widget-image\" data-id=\"aca85ea\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"image.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-image\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" width=\"650\" height=\"418\" src=\"https:\/\/gidas.mkcnamai.lt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/MKCdruskEskizas.jpeg\" class=\"attachment-full size-full\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" srcset=\"https:\/\/gidas.mkcnamai.lt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/MKCdruskEskizas.jpeg 650w, https:\/\/gidas.mkcnamai.lt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/MKCdruskEskizas-300x193.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/gidas.mkcnamai.lt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/MKCdruskEskizas-16x10.jpeg 16w, https:\/\/gidas.mkcnamai.lt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/MKCdruskEskizas-600x386.jpeg 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 650px) 100vw, 650px\" \/>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"has_eae_slider elementor-column elementor-col-33 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-0ac5167\" data-id=\"0ac5167\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-a667157 elementor-widget__width-auto elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"a667157\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-text-editor elementor-clearfix\">\n\t\t\t\t<h5 style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">3. DRUSKININKAI<br \/><\/span><\/h5>\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-dd6be66 elementor-widget elementor-widget-wp-widget-media_audio\" data-id=\"dd6be66\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-no-translation=\"\" data-widget_type=\"wp-widget-media_audio.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t<style>.elementor-element-dd6be66{display:none !important}<\/style>\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-059699c elementor-widget elementor-widget-wp-widget-media_audio\" data-id=\"059699c\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-no-translation=\"\" data-widget_type=\"wp-widget-media_audio.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-27-12\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" 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data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-41ebc51 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"41ebc51\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-text-editor elementor-clearfix\">\n\t\t\t\t<p>\u010ciurlionis' spiritual journey begins in Druskininkai where he spent his childhood, surrounded by the calm Nemunas River, old pine forests, legends and fairy tales, Lithuanian songs being sung in the amber waves of grain, the echo of a bell from a village church from afar, the chirping of birds and the whisper of the wind that will later intertwine in the magical and unique world of \u010ciurlionis' images and sounds that are enriched by a copious amount of symbols and metaphors.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-630411f elementor-widget elementor-widget-jet-view-more\" data-id=\"630411f\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"jet-view-more.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"jet-view-more\" data-settings=\"{&quot;effect&quot;:&quot;move-up&quot;,&quot;sections&quot;:{&quot;9aeb6ff&quot;:&quot;03-tekstas&quot;},&quot;showall&quot;:false}\"><div class=\"jet-view-more__button\"><div class=\"jet-view-more__label\">read more...<\/div><\/div><\/div>\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<section class=\"has_eae_slider elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-4678cd9 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"4678cd9\" data-element_type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-row\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"has_eae_slider elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-0b300f2\" data-id=\"0b300f2\" data-element_type=\"column\" id=\"03-tekstas\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-fd66f3c elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"fd66f3c\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-text-editor elementor-clearfix\">\n\t\t\t\t<p>Childhood memories, emotional attachment to his family and surrounding environment will always be like a magnet pulling the artist home. They will always serve as a source of light and harmony for him even in his darkest hours. \u201cI feel wonderful because I just finished playing various compositions from Druskininkai on the piano. My thoughts wandered along the Parie\u010d\u0117 road, through the potatoes and gooseberries growing in our garden, the green lawn of the church, \u2026. I also remembered our old boat, from which we were forever draining out water. He was a witness to my many tragicomedies!\u201d commented \u010ciurlionis in a letter to his friend Petras Markevi\u010dius from Leipzig where he was studying at the time.<\/p><figure id=\"attachment_1055\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1055\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-1055 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/gidas.mkcnamai.lt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/f.-MKC-teveliai.-1909-300x224.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"224\" srcset=\"https:\/\/gidas.mkcnamai.lt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/f.-MKC-teveliai.-1909-300x224.jpg 300w, https:\/\/gidas.mkcnamai.lt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/f.-MKC-teveliai.-1909-1024x766.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/gidas.mkcnamai.lt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/f.-MKC-teveliai.-1909-768x574.jpg 768w, https:\/\/gidas.mkcnamai.lt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/f.-MKC-teveliai.-1909-16x12.jpg 16w, https:\/\/gidas.mkcnamai.lt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/f.-MKC-teveliai.-1909-600x449.jpg 600w, https:\/\/gidas.mkcnamai.lt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/f.-MKC-teveliai.-1909.jpg 1300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1055\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Adel\u0117 ir Konstantinas \u010ciurlioniai, 1911<\/figcaption><\/figure><p>And that\u2019s why, wherever \u010ciurlionis lived, in Warsaw, or in Leipzig, Vilnius or St. Petersburg, he would return to Druskininkai at every available opportunity. He waited for those opportunities with the greatest longing and enthusiasm, and thought about them with a heart full of joy, \u201cThis is the 3rd month that I am here and there are still 7 left. As a matter of fact, that's a lot, and then ... ech! I will go to Druskininkai so full of joy that I will leave a whirlwind of dust behind me!\u201d  (Leipzig, December 17, 1901) The lines are from a letter to his mother Adele \u010ciurlionien\u0117, with whom her eldest son had a special emotional attachment. His younger brothers (Povilas, Stasys, Petras and Jonas) and sisters (Marija, Juz\u0117, Valerija and Jadvyga) also always felt their oldest brother\u2019s undivided attention to them and his very strong support.  In his letters to them from Warsaw and Leipzig their brother constantly inquired about their education and life in general. And, when he would return home from Warsaw, it was a time of joy and happy games. Maybe that's why all of the brothers and sisters learned to play the piano as they grew up, and in later years, they all went together with their brother to the drawing and painting plein airs on the banks of the Nemunas or Ratny\u010d\u0117l\u0117 rivers, and sometimes even spent the night in the Raigardas Valley.<\/p><figure id=\"attachment_1054\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1054\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-1054 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/gidas.mkcnamai.lt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/g3-1-sheima-300x201.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"201\" srcset=\"https:\/\/gidas.mkcnamai.lt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/g3-1-sheima-300x201.jpg 300w, https:\/\/gidas.mkcnamai.lt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/g3-1-sheima-768x515.jpg 768w, https:\/\/gidas.mkcnamai.lt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/g3-1-sheima-16x12.jpg 16w, https:\/\/gidas.mkcnamai.lt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/g3-1-sheima-600x402.jpg 600w, https:\/\/gidas.mkcnamai.lt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/g3-1-sheima.jpg 900w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1054\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">\u0160eimos nuotrauka<\/figcaption><\/figure><p>Druskininkai was always a haven of spiritual peace for \u010ciurlionis. Here, surrounded by his large family, he had his most beautiful hours of inspiration, his most striking creative thoughts.  \u201cYou know, Zosele \u2013 I\u2019m painting! Since Thursday I\u2019ve been painting for 8-10 hours a day. Nothing has come of it yet but that\u2019s fine. I\u2019m painting a sonata (it consists of four parts and its hard going, but I\u2019d like to finish it a soon as possible because I\u2019m already  beginning to see the second one.\u201d Wrote the artist in a letter to his fianc\u00e9e Sofija Kymantait\u0117 from Druskininkai in Summer of 1908.<br \/>These annual \"holiday\" creative plein airs sometimes lasted for up to half a year. They serve as road markers for us in following the development of \u010ciurlionis' creative thoughts, the changes in his style and fields of interest. The works of music and art that were created in Druskininkai help us to get an idea of the stylistic development of \u010ciurlionis' work.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<section class=\"has_eae_slider elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-68626c7 elementor-section-height-min-height elementor-section-content-top elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-items-middle\" data-id=\"68626c7\" data-element_type=\"section\" id=\"sk4\" data-settings=\"{&quot;background_background&quot;:&quot;classic&quot;}\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-extended\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-row\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"has_eae_slider elementor-column elementor-col-33 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-31a04b4\" data-id=\"31a04b4\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-settings=\"{&quot;background_background&quot;:&quot;classic&quot;}\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-130858a elementor-widget elementor-widget-image\" data-id=\"130858a\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"image.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-image\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" width=\"850\" height=\"474\" src=\"https:\/\/gidas.mkcnamai.lt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/495023-725504-756x425-1.jpg\" class=\"attachment-full size-full\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" srcset=\"https:\/\/gidas.mkcnamai.lt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/495023-725504-756x425-1.jpg 850w, https:\/\/gidas.mkcnamai.lt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/495023-725504-756x425-1-300x167.jpg 300w, https:\/\/gidas.mkcnamai.lt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/495023-725504-756x425-1-768x428.jpg 768w, https:\/\/gidas.mkcnamai.lt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/495023-725504-756x425-1-16x9.jpg 16w, https:\/\/gidas.mkcnamai.lt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/495023-725504-756x425-1-150x85.jpg 150w, https:\/\/gidas.mkcnamai.lt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/495023-725504-756x425-1-600x335.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 850px) 100vw, 850px\" \/>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"has_eae_slider elementor-column elementor-col-33 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-fe72ac7\" data-id=\"fe72ac7\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-a04eec1 elementor-widget__width-auto elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"a04eec1\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-text-editor elementor-clearfix\">\n\t\t\t\t<h5 style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">4. MUSIC STUDIES. BEGINNING OF A CREATIVE PATH. <\/span><\/h5><h5 style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Plung\u0117, Warsaw and Leipzig.<br \/><\/span><\/h5>\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-e23f01f elementor-widget elementor-widget-wp-widget-media_audio\" data-id=\"e23f01f\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-no-translation=\"\" data-widget_type=\"wp-widget-media_audio.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t<style>.elementor-element-e23f01f{display:none !important}<\/style>\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-e364e95 elementor-widget elementor-widget-wp-widget-media_audio\" data-id=\"e364e95\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-no-translation=\"\" data-widget_type=\"wp-widget-media_audio.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-27-17\" 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!important}<\/style>\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"has_eae_slider elementor-column elementor-col-33 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-f5d07ad\" data-id=\"f5d07ad\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-69bc3f3 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"69bc3f3\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-text-editor elementor-clearfix\">\n\t\t\t\t<p>Although \u010ciurlionis comes to Vilnius in 1907 primarily as a painter to participate in the first exhibition of Lithuanian artists, his creative path begins with music.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-05a5404 elementor-widget elementor-widget-jet-view-more\" data-id=\"05a5404\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"jet-view-more.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"jet-view-more\" data-settings=\"{&quot;effect&quot;:&quot;move-up&quot;,&quot;sections&quot;:{&quot;9aeb6ff&quot;:&quot;04-tekstas&quot;},&quot;showall&quot;:false}\"><div class=\"jet-view-more__button\"><div class=\"jet-view-more__label\">read more...<\/div><\/div><\/div>\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<section class=\"has_eae_slider elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-aaa5736 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"aaa5736\" data-element_type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-row\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"has_eae_slider elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-a9e0346\" data-id=\"a9e0346\" data-element_type=\"column\" id=\"04-tekstas\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-8ca81d3 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"8ca81d3\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-text-editor elementor-clearfix\">\n\t\t\t\t<p>Plung\u0117, Lithuania:<br \/>When the child's extraordinary sensitivity to music began to emerge, his father taught Kastukas to play the piano when he was only five years old and by the time he turned ten, he was already substituting for his father as an organist at the Druskininkai Church. Through the intercession of a family friend, Dr. J\u00f3zef Markiewicz, at the age of thirteen \u010ciurlionis leaves Druskininkai to continue his music studies in Plung\u0117 at an orchestral school located in the manor of Duke Mykolas Oginski. Here, the young musician fits into a particularly favorable environment. Science, technological innovations and culture were all highly valued by the Oginski family. Their manor contained an outstanding library, an extensive collection of paintings and items of great cultural value. The Oginskis family were stalwart Lithuanian patriots from the time of the Republic of Two Nations. Duke Mykolas Oginskis\u2019 grandfather Micha\u0142 Kleofas Ogi\u0144ski was a well-known composer whose works are still performed today. He and his regiment also took part in the uprising of Tadeusz Ko\u015bciuszko in Vilnius, after which he was forced to spend many years in exile. He spent his entire life working for the good of Lithuania.<\/p><p>At the manor\u2019s orchestral school, \u010ciurlionis studied the basics of music, played a flute in the orchestra, and began his first creative experiments. The orchestra traveled often and for the first time in his life he saw the Baltic Sea during their annual performances at Count Ti\u0161kevi\u010dius' manor in Palanga. On important occasions, their orchestra merged with the orchestra located at Duke Bogdan Oginskis\u2019 manor, who was Mykolas Oginskis\u2019 brother and resided in Rietavas. It was here at Easter time in 1892, when a chandelier of a hundred lights was first lit in Lithuania at the Rietavas Church that \u010ciurlionis undoubtedly had the opportunity to meet the famed organist and composer Juozas Naujalis, who had just returned from his studies at the Warsaw Music Institute a few years ago.<\/p><figure id=\"attachment_1049\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1049\" style=\"width: 210px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-1049 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/gidas.mkcnamai.lt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Kunigaikstis-Mykolas-Oginskis-210x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"210\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/gidas.mkcnamai.lt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Kunigaikstis-Mykolas-Oginskis-210x300.jpg 210w, https:\/\/gidas.mkcnamai.lt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Kunigaikstis-Mykolas-Oginskis-715x1024.jpg 715w, https:\/\/gidas.mkcnamai.lt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Kunigaikstis-Mykolas-Oginskis-768x1099.jpg 768w, https:\/\/gidas.mkcnamai.lt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Kunigaikstis-Mykolas-Oginskis-8x12.jpg 8w, https:\/\/gidas.mkcnamai.lt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Kunigaikstis-Mykolas-Oginskis-600x859.jpg 600w, https:\/\/gidas.mkcnamai.lt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Kunigaikstis-Mykolas-Oginskis.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 210px) 100vw, 210px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1049\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mykolas Mikalojus Oginskis<\/figcaption><\/figure><p>Warsaw<br \/>In 1894, Duke Mykolas Oginskis, who has become very close to \u010ciurlionis and will remain his most important patron for a long time, awarded the young musician a scholarship to study at the Warsaw Music Institute. Whether by coincidence or conscious choice, he chooses to study with the same professors as Juozas Naujalis. He studies piano with one of the greatest Warsaw erudites of the time - pianist, art critic and writer Antoni Sygietynski and composition studies with Zygmunt Noskowski, who is the most famous composer, conductor and organizer of cultural events in Warsaw. Composers Mieczyslaw Karlowicz, Karol Szymanowski, Ludomir R\u00f3\u017cycki and others studied with this eminent pedagogue. \u010ciurlionis' closest friend, Eugeniusz Morawski, who later also turned to art, is also a student of  Zygmunt Noskowski.<\/p><p>At the end of the nineteenth century, even though it was simply a distant outpost of Tsarist Russia, Warsaw continued to foster its memory as the capital of the Republic of Two Nations and its ambitions for becoming European cultural center. Here, the young \u010ciurlionis is greeted by a diverse cultural panorama dominated by the exaltation of the great legacy of Frederic Chopin and brimming with aspirations for a national revival. The young composer plunges head-first into his composition studies and into the vortex of urban culture. \u010ciurlionis\u2019 compositions, especially those relating to his academic program and leisure activities, reveal not only the very serious ambitions of this student, but also his sensitivity to the environment around him. In his early compositions, we also find quite a few aural childhood experiences from Lithuania: from folk song arrangements to dreamy musical landscapes of Druskininkai. These works speak in the composer's own genuine voice, which will later evolve into \u010ciurlionis' unique creative world of sounds and images. The first time this powerful combination is unleashed in the symphonic poem In the Forest. Composed in 1900, it signals the beginning of the Lithuanian symphonic music [excerpt...]<\/p><figure id=\"attachment_1048\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1048\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-1048 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/gidas.mkcnamai.lt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/p150-Leipzig-kons-300x239.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"239\" srcset=\"https:\/\/gidas.mkcnamai.lt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/p150-Leipzig-kons-300x239.png 300w, https:\/\/gidas.mkcnamai.lt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/p150-Leipzig-kons-768x612.png 768w, https:\/\/gidas.mkcnamai.lt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/p150-Leipzig-kons-16x12.png 16w, https:\/\/gidas.mkcnamai.lt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/p150-Leipzig-kons-600x478.png 600w, https:\/\/gidas.mkcnamai.lt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/p150-Leipzig-kons.png 1000w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1048\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Leipcigo konservatorija<\/figcaption><\/figure><p class=\" translation-block\">Leipzig.<br>In the autumn of 1901, thanks to the support of Duke Oginskis, the young composer went to Leipzig to hone his compositional skills. The city has become a magnet for young musicians from various countries. Leipzig was home to the legendary Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy School of Music and the Gewandhaus Symphony Orchestra, the centuries-old St. Thomas\u2019 Church Boys\u2019 Choral tradition and aura left by great composers such as Bach, Clara and Robert Schumann and Brahms, as well as world-renowned professors and composers Carl Reinecke and Salomon Jadassohn.<\/p><figure id=\"attachment_1050\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1050\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-1050 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/gidas.mkcnamai.lt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Leipcigas-Reinecke-MKC-antras-is-k.-antr.-stovi.-eil.-1902-300x230.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"230\" srcset=\"https:\/\/gidas.mkcnamai.lt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Leipcigas-Reinecke-MKC-antras-is-k.-antr.-stovi.-eil.-1902-300x230.jpg 300w, https:\/\/gidas.mkcnamai.lt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Leipcigas-Reinecke-MKC-antras-is-k.-antr.-stovi.-eil.-1902-1024x785.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/gidas.mkcnamai.lt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Leipcigas-Reinecke-MKC-antras-is-k.-antr.-stovi.-eil.-1902-768x589.jpg 768w, https:\/\/gidas.mkcnamai.lt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Leipcigas-Reinecke-MKC-antras-is-k.-antr.-stovi.-eil.-1902-16x12.jpg 16w, https:\/\/gidas.mkcnamai.lt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Leipcigas-Reinecke-MKC-antras-is-k.-antr.-stovi.-eil.-1902-600x460.jpg 600w, https:\/\/gidas.mkcnamai.lt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Leipcigas-Reinecke-MKC-antras-is-k.-antr.-stovi.-eil.-1902.jpg 1100w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1050\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">K. Reinecke tarp savo student\u0173, 1902<\/figcaption><\/figure><p>\u010ciurlionis, who did not speak German and therefore felt particularly lonely in this European cultural center, became especially close to Salomon Jadassohn, who was born in Wroc\u0142aw and encouraged the aspirations of this young student from Warsaw. On the other hand, Reinecke's old-fashioned academic approach quickly became more of an obstacle for our young composer who was still searching for his true voice. \u010ciurlionis\u2019 scores were already more in tune with the emerging twentieth century. And so, the Gewandhaus orchestra's concerts became a way of mastering the secrets of orchestration. He spent hours at the Peters Music Library studying and copying down the scores of Hector Berlioz and Richard Strauss. A number of \u010ciurlionis' symphonic ideas were born in Leipzig - the overture K\u0119stutis, his first symphony and a concert for cello and orchestra.\nUnfortunately, only the K\u0119stutis piano has survived. In Leipzig, \u010ciurlionis pushed aside his loneliness by frequently visiting the magnificent Leipzig Art Museum where he especially admired the German symbolists, especially Arnold Boecklin. During the Christmas holidays, \u010ciurlionis purchased colored pencils and drawing paper. Therefore, after receiving his graduation diploma in July 1902, \u010ciurlionis returns to Warsaw, having already decided to devote his time to both music and painting.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<section class=\"has_eae_slider elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-33029c1 elementor-section-height-min-height elementor-section-content-top elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-items-middle\" data-id=\"33029c1\" data-element_type=\"section\" id=\"sk5\" data-settings=\"{&quot;background_background&quot;:&quot;classic&quot;}\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-extended\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-row\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"has_eae_slider elementor-column elementor-col-33 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-f2b2d6e\" data-id=\"f2b2d6e\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-settings=\"{&quot;background_background&quot;:&quot;classic&quot;}\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-d340598 elementor-widget elementor-widget-image\" data-id=\"d340598\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"image.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-image\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1100\" height=\"865\" src=\"https:\/\/gidas.mkcnamai.lt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/IMG-2683.jpg\" class=\"attachment-full size-full\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" srcset=\"https:\/\/gidas.mkcnamai.lt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/IMG-2683.jpg 1100w, https:\/\/gidas.mkcnamai.lt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/IMG-2683-300x236.jpg 300w, https:\/\/gidas.mkcnamai.lt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/IMG-2683-1024x805.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/gidas.mkcnamai.lt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/IMG-2683-768x604.jpg 768w, https:\/\/gidas.mkcnamai.lt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/IMG-2683-16x12.jpg 16w, https:\/\/gidas.mkcnamai.lt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/IMG-2683-600x472.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1100px) 100vw, 1100px\" \/>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"has_eae_slider elementor-column elementor-col-33 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-662b5e3\" data-id=\"662b5e3\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-81ff8ac elementor-widget__width-auto elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"81ff8ac\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-text-editor elementor-clearfix\">\n\t\t\t\t<h5 style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">5. ART STUDIES<br \/><\/span><\/h5>\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-0365cc1 elementor-widget elementor-widget-wp-widget-media_audio\" data-id=\"0365cc1\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-no-translation=\"\" data-widget_type=\"wp-widget-media_audio.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t<style>.elementor-element-0365cc1{display:none !important}<\/style>\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-8f8892a elementor-widget elementor-widget-wp-widget-media_audio\" data-id=\"8f8892a\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-no-translation=\"\" data-widget_type=\"wp-widget-media_audio.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-27-22\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/gidas.mkcnamai.lt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/mkcgidas_en_05n.mp3?_=22\" \/><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/gidas.mkcnamai.lt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/mkcgidas_en_05n.mp3?_=22\" \/><source type=\"audio\/ogg\" src=\"https:\/\/gidas.mkcnamai.lt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/mkcgidas_en_05n.ogg?_=22\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/gidas.mkcnamai.lt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/mkcgidas_en_05n.mp3\">https:\/\/gidas.mkcnamai.lt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/mkcgidas_en_05n.mp3<\/a><\/audio>\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-69e7a3a elementor-widget elementor-widget-wp-widget-media_audio\" data-id=\"69e7a3a\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-no-translation=\"\" data-widget_type=\"wp-widget-media_audio.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t<style>.elementor-element-69e7a3a{display:none !important}<\/style>\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-d17a88a elementor-widget elementor-widget-wp-widget-media_audio\" data-id=\"d17a88a\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-no-translation=\"\" data-widget_type=\"wp-widget-media_audio.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t<style>.elementor-element-d17a88a{display:none !important}<\/style>\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-2c357a0 elementor-widget elementor-widget-wp-widget-media_audio\" data-id=\"2c357a0\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-no-translation=\"\" data-widget_type=\"wp-widget-media_audio.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t<style>.elementor-element-2c357a0{display:none !important}<\/style>\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"has_eae_slider elementor-column elementor-col-33 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-1cf4290\" data-id=\"1cf4290\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-1412ba3 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"1412ba3\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-text-editor elementor-clearfix\">\n\t\t\t\t<p>Beginning in Leipzig, \u010ciurlionis felt a growing craving for art: he pushed away his loneliness while painting. After returning to Warsaw, \u010ciurlionis enrolled in the Jan Kauzik School of Drawing in 1902, and in March of 1904, when the Warsaw School of Art was founded, he immediately signed up for classes.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-7e109a3 elementor-widget elementor-widget-jet-view-more\" data-id=\"7e109a3\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"jet-view-more.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"jet-view-more\" data-settings=\"{&quot;effect&quot;:&quot;move-up&quot;,&quot;sections&quot;:{&quot;9aeb6ff&quot;:&quot;05-tekstas&quot;},&quot;showall&quot;:false}\"><div class=\"jet-view-more__button\"><div class=\"jet-view-more__label\">read more...<\/div><\/div><\/div>\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<section class=\"has_eae_slider elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-886b044 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"886b044\" data-element_type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-row\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"has_eae_slider elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-6045246\" data-id=\"6045246\" data-element_type=\"column\" id=\"05-tekstas\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-7334558 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"7334558\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-text-editor elementor-clearfix\">\n\t\t\t\t<p>The painter Kazimierz Stabrowski, born in historical Lithuania, near Minsk, was elected Director of the School of Art. Stabrowski was a patriot of his native country that had lost its statehood. The Warsaw School of Art, therefore, sought to continue the mission of Warsaw\u2019s art school that had been closed after the uprising. On the other hand, after studying at the art academies of St. Petersburg and Paris, traveling extensively and becoming increasingly involved in the activities of the Polish Theosophical Society, the school\u2019s principal and his colleagues shaped the school\u2019s curriculum, focusing on new trends in Western art. \u010ciurlionis attended classes taught by Konrad Krzy\u017canowski, Ferdynand Ruszczyc, Karol Tichi, who all sought innovation in art. Colleagues valued Konstantinas as a musician and composer, and he often regularly won prizes for his works in the categories of applied and - especially - pure art works. As a result, he received bonuses and was even exempted from tuition fees for a year.<\/p><p>While In Warsaw, \u010ciurlionis frequented the Kryvult Salon, called the Zachenta. There he saw exhibitions of foreign and Polish artists. During his study years \u010ciurlionis could see the works by renowned artists from Francisco Goya, and Arnold B\u00f6cklin to Henri de Tolouse Lautrec, James Abbott McNeil Whistler, Max Klinger and Odilon Redon. He also saw works by young Polish artists here. At Zachenta, the Warsaw School of Art organized an exhibition of the work of its students, in which \u010ciurlionis' pieces attracted the attention of several buyers. The young artist also took part in the salons organized by Stabrowski, Ruszczyc and others, which were enlivened by many well-known young Polish writers, such as Stanis\u0142aw Przybyszewski and Tadeusz Mici\u0144ski, as well as editors and literary critics such as Zenon Przesmick and Artur G\u00f3rski. They helped \u010ciurlionis to keep up with the most significant cultural developments of the time.<\/p><p>Young art students periodically gathered in a less formal environment \u2013 at \u010ciurlionis\u2019 place or at some other friends\u2019 apartments. In the photo, we see an informal gathering of colleagues from the Warsaw School of Art at the end of 1904. Fellow classmate Henryk Hayden, many years later, commented, \u201cDo you see that piano? Very often - just like that night - \u010ciurlionis and Morawski would play four-hand Bach and Mozart pieces.\"<\/p><figure id=\"attachment_1064\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1064\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-1064 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/gidas.mkcnamai.lt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Pleneras-Arkadijoje-1904-300x272.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"272\" srcset=\"https:\/\/gidas.mkcnamai.lt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Pleneras-Arkadijoje-1904-300x272.jpg 300w, https:\/\/gidas.mkcnamai.lt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Pleneras-Arkadijoje-1904-768x697.jpg 768w, https:\/\/gidas.mkcnamai.lt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Pleneras-Arkadijoje-1904-13x12.jpg 13w, https:\/\/gidas.mkcnamai.lt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Pleneras-Arkadijoje-1904-600x545.jpg 600w, https:\/\/gidas.mkcnamai.lt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Pleneras-Arkadijoje-1904.jpg 1000w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1064\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Summer symposium in Arkadija (Poland), 1904<\/figcaption><\/figure><p>During the summer, the Warsaw School of Art organized plein airs. The first field trip to paint in the fresh air was organized in June-July 1904. More than thirty students, among them \u010ciurlionis, travelled to Arcadia -  the Radvila Manor park in Niebor\u00f3w near \u0141owicz. It was created founded at the end of the 18th century by the wife of one of Vilnius\u2019 last high-ranking officials of Radvila family, Helena Radziwi\u0142\u0142owa. When \u010ciurlionis arrived there, some buildings were still intact: the Temple of Diana was gloriously reflected in the water of the pond, the Gothic House stood disguised in the shady area of the park and the High Priest\u2019s Dwelling was still near the dark Rock of Sibil. \u010ciurlionis settled in on Poplar Island with Eugenijusz Morawski and Jan Brzezi\u0144ski. They painted with small breaks from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. Only on Sundays did everyone go on outings. There were literary evenings and readings from the Chimera magazine.<br \/>After repairing the organ at the Temple of Diana, \u010ciurlionis and Morawski began to organize concerts in the evenings, often enhanced by singing. The masquerade ball, organized by the students, was exceptional - artists dressed in costumes envisioning \"shadows of the dead\". The long-gone Helena Radziwi\u0142\u0142owa was accompanied by \u010ciurlionis dressed as the historian, writer and poet Julian Ursyn Niemcewicz holding a parchment with the inscription, \"Chronos will take everything away\". Morawski came dressed as the green muddy Aquarius. The dance music played during the night was overpowered at dawn by loud, resonant organ chords coming from the Temple of Diana. This was how \u010ciurlionis and Morawski had decided to greet the rising sun! For a very long time, many of the participants vividly remembered the extraordinary atmosphere of this event and the entire plein air. In the photo, we can see the participants of the plein air, immortalized on the steps of the Temple of Diana, which is guarded by the sculpture of a Sphinx. Together with colleagues from the Warsaw School of Art, \u010ciurlionis also participated in a plein air in Istebna, Silesia. In addition, he also had other opportunities to travel.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<section class=\"has_eae_slider elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-8baaac8 elementor-section-height-min-height elementor-section-content-top elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-items-middle\" data-id=\"8baaac8\" data-element_type=\"section\" id=\"sk6\" data-settings=\"{&quot;background_background&quot;:&quot;classic&quot;}\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-extended\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-row\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"has_eae_slider elementor-column elementor-col-33 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-e89787e\" data-id=\"e89787e\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-settings=\"{&quot;background_background&quot;:&quot;classic&quot;}\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-1c6c63d elementor-widget elementor-widget-image\" data-id=\"1c6c63d\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"image.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-image\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1000\" height=\"743\" src=\"https:\/\/gidas.mkcnamai.lt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/d.-MKC-Anapoj-prie-stalo-1905.jpeg\" class=\"attachment-full size-full\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" srcset=\"https:\/\/gidas.mkcnamai.lt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/d.-MKC-Anapoj-prie-stalo-1905.jpeg 1000w, https:\/\/gidas.mkcnamai.lt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/d.-MKC-Anapoj-prie-stalo-1905-300x223.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/gidas.mkcnamai.lt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/d.-MKC-Anapoj-prie-stalo-1905-768x571.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/gidas.mkcnamai.lt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/d.-MKC-Anapoj-prie-stalo-1905-16x12.jpeg 16w, https:\/\/gidas.mkcnamai.lt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/d.-MKC-Anapoj-prie-stalo-1905-600x446.jpeg 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"has_eae_slider elementor-column elementor-col-33 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-44c70d1\" data-id=\"44c70d1\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-19ad004 elementor-widget__width-auto elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"19ad004\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-text-editor elementor-clearfix\">\n\t\t\t\t<h5 style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">6. M. K. \u010cIURLIONIS AND THE WOLMAN FAMILY<br \/><\/span><\/h5>\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-036a714 elementor-widget elementor-widget-wp-widget-media_audio\" data-id=\"036a714\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-no-translation=\"\" data-widget_type=\"wp-widget-media_audio.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t<style>.elementor-element-036a714{display:none !important}<\/style>\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-2fefd66 elementor-widget elementor-widget-wp-widget-media_audio\" data-id=\"2fefd66\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-no-translation=\"\" data-widget_type=\"wp-widget-media_audio.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-27-27\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/gidas.mkcnamai.lt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/mkcgidas_en_06.mp3?_=27\" \/><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/gidas.mkcnamai.lt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/mkcgidas_en_06.mp3?_=27\" \/><source type=\"audio\/ogg\" src=\"https:\/\/gidas.mkcnamai.lt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/mkcgidas_en_06.ogg?_=27\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/gidas.mkcnamai.lt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/mkcgidas_en_06.mp3\">https:\/\/gidas.mkcnamai.lt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/mkcgidas_en_06.mp3<\/a><\/audio>\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-d9b9190 elementor-widget elementor-widget-wp-widget-media_audio\" data-id=\"d9b9190\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-no-translation=\"\" data-widget_type=\"wp-widget-media_audio.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t<style>.elementor-element-d9b9190{display:none !important}<\/style>\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-2435a3d elementor-widget elementor-widget-wp-widget-media_audio\" data-id=\"2435a3d\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-no-translation=\"\" data-widget_type=\"wp-widget-media_audio.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t<style>.elementor-element-2435a3d{display:none !important}<\/style>\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-a19f77c elementor-widget elementor-widget-wp-widget-media_audio\" data-id=\"a19f77c\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-no-translation=\"\" data-widget_type=\"wp-widget-media_audio.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t<style>.elementor-element-a19f77c{display:none !important}<\/style>\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"has_eae_slider elementor-column elementor-col-33 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-cc82b62\" data-id=\"cc82b62\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-a7e1af6 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"a7e1af6\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-text-editor elementor-clearfix\">\n\t\t\t\t<p>\u010ciurlionis met this hospitable and lovely family through his classmate Bronis\u0142aw Wolman while he was studying in Warsaw. He soon became a close friend of the Wolmans, and together with other fellow students he attended their salon evenings, during which discussions on the topics of literature, philosophy and music took place.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-954e0f5 elementor-widget elementor-widget-jet-view-more\" data-id=\"954e0f5\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"jet-view-more.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"jet-view-more\" data-settings=\"{&quot;effect&quot;:&quot;move-up&quot;,&quot;sections&quot;:{&quot;9aeb6ff&quot;:&quot;06-tekstas&quot;},&quot;showall&quot;:false}\"><div class=\"jet-view-more__button\"><div class=\"jet-view-more__label\">read more...<\/div><\/div><\/div>\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<section class=\"has_eae_slider elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-45e10e3 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"45e10e3\" data-element_type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-row\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"has_eae_slider elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-4b75874\" data-id=\"4b75874\" data-element_type=\"column\" id=\"06-tekstas\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-20e6419 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"20e6419\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-text-editor elementor-clearfix\">\n\t\t\t\t<p>The philosopher Adam Mahrburg, who had attended Wilhelm Wundt's courses in Leipzig, was invited to present a series of lectures there. \u010ciurlionis visited the Wolmans more often than his colleagues: he would stop by for lunch, as he regularly gave music lessons to Bronis\u0142aw's sister Halina Wolman, to whom he became tenderly attracted and later dedicated three of his piano preludes and his poetic Letters to Devdurak\u0117lis.<\/p><p>The mother of the young Wolmans, Bronis\u0142awa, was a true art aficionado and a highly intelligent person. She became an unabating supporter and sponsor of \u010ciurlionis' talent. She was also the first to find a very favorable review of \u010ciurlionis' works in the Russian press by the art critic Bresc-Breskovsky following the exhibition of students of the Warsaw School of Art in St. Petersburg. In the article \u010ciurlionis had been singled out for his unique style. And so, Mrs. Wolman immediately purchased \u010ciurlionis' entire series of Creation of the World. She also presented him with the most popular book among intellectuals of the time, supported his research trips, and personally invited him to join their family during their summer vacations. On his part, \u010ciurlionis presented her with his painting Friendship and dedicated to her his symphonic poem The Sea. When Mrs. Wolman traveled to Vilnius for the First Lithuanian Art Exhibition, she even managed to find time to talk to the bishop about the dismissal of \u010ciurlionis' father as a Druskininkai church organist. In a letter to his brother, Konstantinas admitted, \u201cIt is a pity that you don\u2019t know Mrs. Wolman. She is the only amazing woman I know.\"<\/p><figure id=\"attachment_1068\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1068\" style=\"width: 190px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-1068 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/gidas.mkcnamai.lt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/b1.-MKC-su-Morawskiu-Anapoj-1905-190x300.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"190\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/gidas.mkcnamai.lt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/b1.-MKC-su-Morawskiu-Anapoj-1905-190x300.jpeg 190w, https:\/\/gidas.mkcnamai.lt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/b1.-MKC-su-Morawskiu-Anapoj-1905-650x1024.jpeg 650w, https:\/\/gidas.mkcnamai.lt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/b1.-MKC-su-Morawskiu-Anapoj-1905-768x1210.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/gidas.mkcnamai.lt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/b1.-MKC-su-Morawskiu-Anapoj-1905-8x12.jpeg 8w, https:\/\/gidas.mkcnamai.lt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/b1.-MKC-su-Morawskiu-Anapoj-1905-600x945.jpeg 600w, https:\/\/gidas.mkcnamai.lt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/b1.-MKC-su-Morawskiu-Anapoj-1905.jpeg 800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 190px) 100vw, 190px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1068\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Eugenijus Moravskis ir M. K. \u010ciurlionis Anapoje, 1905<\/figcaption><\/figure><p>Together with the Wolman family, the artist visited the Krynica resort in the Carpathian Mountains, as well as the Anapa resort along the Black Sea. In 1905, during his Anapa journey, \u010ciurlionis already had his own Kodak camera. While enjoying the mountain scenery in the summertime, he photographed and painted. In a letter to his brother Povilas, \u010ciurlionis shared his most vivid impressions from Caucasus mountains, which became symbolic images in his work, \u201cThe shores are rocky, high, inaccessible in some places, while at others you can barely escape from the waves, and sometimes from a mountaintop you can see almost half of the sea... I saw the tops of mountains caressed by clouds and the magnificent snowy peaks with their shining crowns high above the clouds ... I saw Elbrus that was over 140 kilometers away as if it were a huge cloud of snow floating in front of a white mountain range. I saw the Darial Pass as the sun rose through fantastically wild, gray-green and pink cliffs.\u201d<\/p><figure id=\"attachment_1073\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1073\" style=\"width: 183px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-1073 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/gidas.mkcnamai.lt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/MKC-Kaukaze-183x300.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"183\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/gidas.mkcnamai.lt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/MKC-Kaukaze-183x300.jpeg 183w, https:\/\/gidas.mkcnamai.lt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/MKC-Kaukaze-7x12.jpeg 7w, https:\/\/gidas.mkcnamai.lt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/MKC-Kaukaze.jpeg 500w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 183px) 100vw, 183px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1073\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">One can see the Caucasus Mountains along the Black Sea with the receding figure of Konstantinas himself.<\/figcaption><\/figure><p>After receiving a monetary gift from Mrs. Wolman, \u010ciurlionis set out on a trip in 1906 through Central Europe to visit Prague, Dresden, Nuremberg, Munich, and Vienna. Main goal of his trip to attend art exhibitions, galleries and museums. While in Munich, he wrote to his patroness: \"I got to see two Pinakotheks, , the International Art Exhibition, Glyptotec, and an exhibition of French artists.\" In addition to Munich, he emphasized the impressions that he experienced in Dresden, Nuremberg, and Prague, singling out works of Raphael, Sandro Botticelli, Albrecht D\u00fcrer, Hans Holbein, Anthon Van Dyck, Pater Paul Rubens, Titian, Rembrandt, Bartolom\u00e9 Murillo, Diego Vel\u00e1zquez, and Arnold B\u00f6clin from the Old Masters, while Max Klinger, and Ferdinand Hodler impressed him the most from the viewed contemporary artists. He seemingly did not pay much attention to French Impressionism and Post-Impressionist art.<br \/>This trip carried great significance for \u010ciurlionis' own incredibly innovative experiments. This can best be seen in his series of paintings Winter, Summer, Silence, and in his pictorial sonatas that he began to paint a year later.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<section class=\"has_eae_slider elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-4e6ab83 elementor-section-height-min-height elementor-section-content-top elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-items-middle\" data-id=\"4e6ab83\" data-element_type=\"section\" id=\"sk7\" data-settings=\"{&quot;background_background&quot;:&quot;classic&quot;}\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-extended\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-row\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"has_eae_slider elementor-column elementor-col-33 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-c0d0d21\" data-id=\"c0d0d21\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-settings=\"{&quot;background_background&quot;:&quot;classic&quot;}\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-d5c63ea elementor-widget elementor-widget-image\" data-id=\"d5c63ea\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"image.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-image\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1001\" height=\"690\" src=\"https:\/\/gidas.mkcnamai.lt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/BochnigSaviciaus-g.jpg\" class=\"attachment-full size-full\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" srcset=\"https:\/\/gidas.mkcnamai.lt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/BochnigSaviciaus-g.jpg 1001w, https:\/\/gidas.mkcnamai.lt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/BochnigSaviciaus-g-300x207.jpg 300w, https:\/\/gidas.mkcnamai.lt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/BochnigSaviciaus-g-768x529.jpg 768w, https:\/\/gidas.mkcnamai.lt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/BochnigSaviciaus-g-16x12.jpg 16w, https:\/\/gidas.mkcnamai.lt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/BochnigSaviciaus-g-600x414.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1001px) 100vw, 1001px\" \/>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"has_eae_slider elementor-column elementor-col-33 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-1955fe2\" data-id=\"1955fe2\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-f31d249 elementor-widget__width-auto elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"f31d249\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-text-editor elementor-clearfix\">\n\t\t\t\t<h5 style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">7. M. K. \u010cIURLIONIS IN VILNIUS<br \/><\/span><\/h5>\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-e73fa9f elementor-widget elementor-widget-wp-widget-media_audio\" data-id=\"e73fa9f\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-no-translation=\"\" data-widget_type=\"wp-widget-media_audio.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t<style>.elementor-element-e73fa9f{display:none !important}<\/style>\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-6bdf233 elementor-widget elementor-widget-wp-widget-media_audio\" data-id=\"6bdf233\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-no-translation=\"\" data-widget_type=\"wp-widget-media_audio.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-27-32\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/ogg\" src=\"https:\/\/gidas.mkcnamai.lt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/mkcgidas_en_07.ogg?_=32\" \/><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/gidas.mkcnamai.lt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/mkcgidas_en_07.mp3?_=32\" \/><source type=\"audio\/ogg\" src=\"https:\/\/gidas.mkcnamai.lt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/mkcgidas_en_07.ogg?_=32\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/gidas.mkcnamai.lt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/mkcgidas_en_07.ogg\">https:\/\/gidas.mkcnamai.lt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/mkcgidas_en_07.ogg<\/a><\/audio>\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-5b26fc4 elementor-widget elementor-widget-wp-widget-media_audio\" data-id=\"5b26fc4\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-no-translation=\"\" data-widget_type=\"wp-widget-media_audio.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t<style>.elementor-element-5b26fc4{display:none !important}<\/style>\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-25d2874 elementor-widget elementor-widget-wp-widget-media_audio\" data-id=\"25d2874\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-no-translation=\"\" data-widget_type=\"wp-widget-media_audio.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t<style>.elementor-element-25d2874{display:none !important}<\/style>\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-70ef633 elementor-widget elementor-widget-wp-widget-media_audio\" data-id=\"70ef633\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-no-translation=\"\" data-widget_type=\"wp-widget-media_audio.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t<style>.elementor-element-70ef633{display:none !important}<\/style>\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"has_eae_slider elementor-column elementor-col-33 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-b7ac75f\" data-id=\"b7ac75f\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-c57de84 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"c57de84\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-text-editor elementor-clearfix\">\n\t\t\t\t<p>In the autumn of 1905, after the founding of the Lithuanian Self-Help Society in Warsaw, \u010ciurlionis began working on a volunteer basis with the society\u2019s choir. Half a year later, he choir was already performing concerts.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-232e7db elementor-widget elementor-widget-jet-view-more\" data-id=\"232e7db\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"jet-view-more.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"jet-view-more\" data-settings=\"{&quot;effect&quot;:&quot;move-up&quot;,&quot;sections&quot;:{&quot;9aeb6ff&quot;:&quot;07-tekstas&quot;},&quot;showall&quot;:false}\"><div class=\"jet-view-more__button\"><div class=\"jet-view-more__label\">read more...<\/div><\/div><\/div>\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<section class=\"has_eae_slider elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-caa7f2e elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"caa7f2e\" data-element_type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-row\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"has_eae_slider elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-6ab49bc\" data-id=\"6ab49bc\" data-element_type=\"column\" id=\"07-tekstas\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-85f3de9 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"85f3de9\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-text-editor elementor-clearfix\">\n\t\t\t\t<p><strong>Arrival<\/strong><\/p><p class=\" translation-block\">Vincas Palukaitis, the founder of the Lithuanian Self-Help Society, also invited \u010ciurlionis to adapt Lithuanian folk songs for the Vievers\u0117lis choral songbook being prepared for Lithuanian folk schools. In a letter to his brother Povilas, sent in January 1906, \u010ciurlionis shared his desire to devote himself to the Lithuanian cultural cause: \u201cAre you familiar with the Lithuanian movement? I am determined to dedicate all of my past and future works to Lithuania. We are learning the Lithuanian language and I am preparing to write a Lithuanian opera\u201d. In the spring of the same year, Vincas Palukaitis wrote about \u010ciurlionis in the Lithuanian press for the first time. Towards the end of the year, \u010ciurlionis participated in the First Lithuanian Art Exhibition with his paintings.<\/p><p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p><p><strong>Settling in<\/strong><\/p><p>With the onset of revolutionary unrest, \u010ciurlionis felt increasingly unsafe in Warsaw, especially as his closest friends began to come to the attention of the police. He spent the summer of 1907 working in Druskininkai, further away from the prying eyes of the police. In the autumn, he was one of the founders of the Lithuanian Art Society. \n\u201cI was at the opening of the society in Vilnius. This time I really liked being in Vilnius. It\u2019s true that the city is very backward, but the people here are much nicer than in Warsaw.  I met a few new highly cultured people and had a wonderful time. The first meeting of the society was also quite interesting. The funniest part was when the board members were being elected. I received all of the votes, and it moved me to tears because I never expected that. The final result of the meeting is that I will have to organize an exhibition in Vilnius all by myself this year, the opening must take place on December 23. \u017dmuidzinavi\u010dius is going to Paris, so now I will have to take care of everything alone. It\u2019s going to be a lot of work! Very scary!\".  After reflection on the pros and cons of a move, the artist summed it all up in a letter to his sponsor Bronislaw Wolman, \"My move to Vilnius is inevitable.\"<\/p><p><strong>Work and Projects in Vilnius<\/strong><\/p><figure id=\"attachment_1077\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1077\" style=\"width: 215px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-1077 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/gidas.mkcnamai.lt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/M.-K.-Ciurlionio-kurtas-virselis-Damijonaicio-vadoveliui-215x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"215\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/gidas.mkcnamai.lt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/M.-K.-Ciurlionio-kurtas-virselis-Damijonaicio-vadoveliui-215x300.jpg 215w, https:\/\/gidas.mkcnamai.lt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/M.-K.-Ciurlionio-kurtas-virselis-Damijonaicio-vadoveliui-734x1024.jpg 734w, https:\/\/gidas.mkcnamai.lt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/M.-K.-Ciurlionio-kurtas-virselis-Damijonaicio-vadoveliui-768x1072.jpg 768w, https:\/\/gidas.mkcnamai.lt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/M.-K.-Ciurlionio-kurtas-virselis-Damijonaicio-vadoveliui-9x12.jpg 9w, https:\/\/gidas.mkcnamai.lt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/M.-K.-Ciurlionio-kurtas-virselis-Damijonaicio-vadoveliui-600x837.jpg 600w, https:\/\/gidas.mkcnamai.lt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/M.-K.-Ciurlionio-kurtas-virselis-Damijonaicio-vadoveliui.jpg 900w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 215px) 100vw, 215px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1077\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">\u010ciurlionis\u2018 cover design of a Lithuanian language text book by Damijonaitis<\/figcaption><\/figure><p>At first, \u010ciurlionis began to look for private students through acquaintances, but by the end of 1907 and the beginning of the new year, he was taking out ads in the local newspaper. One of those ads reads, \u201cAfter graduating from the Warsaw and Leipzig Conservatories, K. \u010ciurlionis settled in Vilnius and teaches piano and music theory. His address is Andrejevskaja Street 11 apt. 6\u201d. Apparently, he only had a few students. One of them recalled how empathetic he was to the poor - reducing the cost of lessons; if you couldn\u2019t afford a textbook, he would spend entire evenings rewriting harmony exercises by hand, so he earned very little. \u010ciurlionis looked for a job at a music school, but Zenon Jakubowski, the head of the institution, seemed arrogant to the musician: he had demanded a diploma of higher education. \u010ciurlionis, who did not attach much importance to certificates in general, impolitely shot back that he kept his graduation diplomas under his bed. And that was the end of his efforts to get a job in the music school.<br \/>Probably the most reliable source of income for the musician was compensation for his work with the \u201cVilniaus Kankl\u0117s\u201d Choir. \u010ciurlionis held rehearsals four times a week, , but then, if he became ill, he did not receive payment for the missed rehearsal. \". We have twosided emotional connection with the choir. I teach them music theory, and at the same time I write one, two or three-voice singing exercises for them, which sometimes sound really good and I receive great satisfaction from that. But, regardless, the work is hard \u2013 there are a few talented students with good voices, but the rest belong at the bottom of the barrel as they are without an ear for music, without decent voices and without any brains. And Mr. Vilei\u0161is wants this choir to give a concert (in his opinion, it's time for the choir to sing something \u2013 what an idiot!)\u201d.<br \/>In the small room, with its tiny window facing east, he could hardly do any painting in the dark winter months, so he made up applied art tasks for himself: exhibition posters, catalogs, book cover projects, vignettes and sketches. He wrote articles. He often sat at the piano to prepare for the lessons for his private students or the choir rehearsals, or preparing a concert program. \u010ciurlionis performed in the concert halls of Vilnius not only as a accompanist, but also as a soloist \u2013 his concert repertoire included  works by Ludwig van Beethoven, Frederic Chopin, Stanis\u0142aw Moniuszka and other composers. For his Vilnius audiences, he played several of his own preludes too and piano adaptation of the orchestra part of his cantata De Profundis.<br \/>\u010ciurlionis would linger at the piano for hours at a time improvising and composing his own opuses: he created the stylistically innovative series of piano landscapes the sea in Vilnius, which was later performed at a concert of Evenings of Contemporary Music in St. Petersburg.<\/p><figure id=\"attachment_1078\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1078\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-1078 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/gidas.mkcnamai.lt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Rutos-uzdanga-300x172.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"172\" srcset=\"https:\/\/gidas.mkcnamai.lt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Rutos-uzdanga-300x172.jpg 300w, https:\/\/gidas.mkcnamai.lt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Rutos-uzdanga-1024x586.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/gidas.mkcnamai.lt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Rutos-uzdanga-768x439.jpg 768w, https:\/\/gidas.mkcnamai.lt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Rutos-uzdanga-16x9.jpg 16w, https:\/\/gidas.mkcnamai.lt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Rutos-uzdanga-150x85.jpg 150w, https:\/\/gidas.mkcnamai.lt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Rutos-uzdanga-600x343.jpg 600w, https:\/\/gidas.mkcnamai.lt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Rutos-uzdanga.jpg 1100w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1078\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">M. K. \u010ciurlionis. Stage curtain of the \u201eR\u016bta\u201c society<\/figcaption><\/figure><p>During his time in Vilnius, \u010ciurlionis began developing his plans for writing opera J\u016brat\u0117. He later will be developing this idea during his temporary stay in St. Petersburg.\n     \nThe artist also had to participate in Lithuanian and international art meetings. He belonged to the Lithuanian Art and Vilnius Art Societies - in 1909 the Lithuanian Scientific Society invited him to participate in the work of the Lithuanian Folk Song Collection Commission. During the same year, the newly established Lithuanian  Cultural Association R\u016bta commissioned him to paint a stage curtain that has survived to the present day. \n\nThe artist's fianc\u00e9e, and later his wife Sofija Kymantait\u0117-\u010ciurlionien\u0117, joined the Lithuanian Art Society in the autumn of 1908 and also participated in the activities of the Lithuanian Science Society. According to her, Konstantinas was \"pulled to Vilnius as if by some sort of <em>a categorical imperative<\/em> to work here in the field of art, to awaken, to raise, to show people here what they can create by themselves\".<br \/>\u010ciurlionis became involved in a debate whether to build a new National House or to buy an existing building in Vilnius for the Lithuanian cultural purposes. The idea had been developed by Dr. Jonas Basanavi\u010dius and representatives of various societies took part in the discussion, with members of the Lithuanian Art Society being one of the most active. \u010ciurlionis advocated the construction of an ambitiously designed building. It would accommodate concerts, a museum, exhibitions, meeting rooms, a club, a library with a reading room, rehearsal rooms and more. He promised to donate his works to the National Museum. After \u010ciurlionis' death, a plot of land was purchased in the Pam\u0117nkalnis area with the funds that had been collected. Unfortunately, with the outbreak of World War I, the value of the funds completely depreciated, and the idea was never implemented.<\/p><p><strong>Preparations for the Second Lithuanian Art Exhibition<\/strong><\/p><figure id=\"attachment_1082\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1082\" style=\"width: 257px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-1082 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/gidas.mkcnamai.lt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/MKC-sukurtas-plakatas-257x300.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"257\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/gidas.mkcnamai.lt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/MKC-sukurtas-plakatas-257x300.jpeg 257w, https:\/\/gidas.mkcnamai.lt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/MKC-sukurtas-plakatas-10x12.jpeg 10w, https:\/\/gidas.mkcnamai.lt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/MKC-sukurtas-plakatas-600x701.jpeg 600w, https:\/\/gidas.mkcnamai.lt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/MKC-sukurtas-plakatas.jpeg 685w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 257px) 100vw, 257px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1082\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Poster of the Second Exhibition, created by M. K. \u010ciurlionis<\/figcaption><\/figure><p>\u010ciurlionis had the largest role in organizing the Second Lithuanian Art Exhibition. \"Everything related to the exhibition had to be handled personally by myself,\" he wrote. \u201cLetters - and there were many of them - articles, tickets, catalogs, posters, a printing house, the police, the governor. I dismantled the boxes with my own hands, and even carried the heaviest items up to the third floor myself while endlessly running back and forth to the frame repairman. Hanging the paintings was one of the toughest jobs.  Four rooms, each will different wall coverings, light inevitably coming in from the side, huge paintings by Stabrowski. That was something! You think that everything has been exhibited well and then you see that it\u2019s all bad. Everything needs to be dismantled once again, and this goes on endlessly. Nevertheless, at the appointed time, that is, on Thursday, February 28, at 1 p.m., everything was ready.  Instead of ceremonial speeches, at exactly 1 p.m., we rolled out a gigantic blue flag outside of the building and opened the door. It was an exhilarating moment. \n\nThe great majority felt like herring in a barrel, there were those who obsessively demanded explanations, there were those who, looking at my paintings, burst out in laughter, and there were perhaps only a few that felt something or understood it. Summa summarum \u2013 the general consensus was that this exhibition is better than last year\u2019s, but it is a pity that it is smaller\u201d. The exhibition was up until April 28. \u010ciurlionis participated with approximately 60 of his own works, among them the Sun and  Spring sonatas, Winter series, Friendship, The Past, A Message, the triptychs Summer, My Road, Fairy Tale and others.<\/p><p>At the end of the summer of 1908, \u010ciurlionis was elected an honorary member of the society alongside the chairman Antanas \u017dmuidzinavi\u010dius, the director of the Warsaw School of Art Kazimierz Stabrowski and the artist and collector Tadas Daugirdas.<\/p><p>Before the war, the Lithuanian Art Society had organized eight Lithuanian art exhibitions, which were visited by more than 10,000 people. In the spring and early summer of 1911, the Society's members organized a posthumous exhibition of \u010ciurlionis\u2019 works in Vilnius and Kaunas and assisted in organizing posthumous exhibitions of the artist's works in Moscow and St. Petersburg. The \u010ciurlionis Kuopa, a group of activists devoted to promote the art of \u010ciurlionis, initiated a permanent exhibition of \u010ciurlionis' works in Vilnius in 1913\u20131914. During the approaching front of the First World War, Vilnius lost its collection of \u010ciurlionis' works. They were quickly taken to Moscow and afterwards returned to Kaunas, which had become the capital of the first Independent Republic of Lithuania. The entire collection is now housed in the National \u010ciurlionis Art Museum in Kaunas.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<section class=\"has_eae_slider elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-551be15 elementor-section-height-min-height elementor-section-content-top elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-items-middle\" data-id=\"551be15\" data-element_type=\"section\" id=\"sk8\" data-settings=\"{&quot;background_background&quot;:&quot;classic&quot;}\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-extended\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-row\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"has_eae_slider elementor-column elementor-col-33 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-fcecc0b\" data-id=\"fcecc0b\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-settings=\"{&quot;background_background&quot;:&quot;classic&quot;}\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-f64c092 elementor-widget elementor-widget-image\" data-id=\"f64c092\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"image.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-image\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" width=\"606\" height=\"638\" src=\"https:\/\/gidas.mkcnamai.lt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/KymanCUT.jpg\" class=\"attachment-full size-full\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" srcset=\"https:\/\/gidas.mkcnamai.lt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/KymanCUT.jpg 606w, https:\/\/gidas.mkcnamai.lt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/KymanCUT-285x300.jpg 285w, https:\/\/gidas.mkcnamai.lt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/KymanCUT-11x12.jpg 11w, https:\/\/gidas.mkcnamai.lt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/KymanCUT-600x632.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 606px) 100vw, 606px\" \/>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"has_eae_slider elementor-column elementor-col-33 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-b351c0f\" data-id=\"b351c0f\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-4b91e46 elementor-widget__width-auto elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"4b91e46\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-text-editor elementor-clearfix\">\n\t\t\t\t<h5 style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"> 8. M. K. \u010cIURLIONIS AND SOFIJA KYMANTAIT\u0116<br \/><\/span><\/h5>\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-1a8e543 elementor-widget elementor-widget-wp-widget-media_audio\" data-id=\"1a8e543\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-no-translation=\"\" data-widget_type=\"wp-widget-media_audio.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t<style>.elementor-element-1a8e543{display:none !important}<\/style>\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-0dd41fe elementor-widget elementor-widget-wp-widget-media_audio\" data-id=\"0dd41fe\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-no-translation=\"\" data-widget_type=\"wp-widget-media_audio.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-27-37\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" 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data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-6b92adf elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"6b92adf\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-text-editor elementor-clearfix\">\n\t\t\t\t<p class=\" translation-block\">In Vilnius, \u010ciurlionis met a young woman who became the person who was closest to him. <strong>Sofija Kymantait\u0117<\/strong> arrived in Vilnius in the autumn of 1907, after studying at the Jagiellonian University in Krak\u00f3w in Women's Advanced Courses there, to work at the editorial office of the newspaper Viltis and became involved in the work of the Women's Congress and the \u017dibur\u0117lis society.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-bb3db25 elementor-widget elementor-widget-jet-view-more\" data-id=\"bb3db25\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"jet-view-more.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"jet-view-more\" data-settings=\"{&quot;effect&quot;:&quot;move-up&quot;,&quot;sections&quot;:{&quot;9aeb6ff&quot;:&quot;08-tekstas&quot;},&quot;showall&quot;:false}\"><div class=\"jet-view-more__button\"><div class=\"jet-view-more__label\">read more...<\/div><\/div><\/div>\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<section class=\"has_eae_slider elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-bf96669 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"bf96669\" data-element_type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-row\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"has_eae_slider elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-8ef377b\" data-id=\"8ef377b\" data-element_type=\"column\" id=\"08-tekstas\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-1d11ec7 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"1d11ec7\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-text-editor elementor-clearfix\">\n\t\t\t\t<p>This society was organizing a commemoration of Vincas Kudirka, so Sofija wrote a letter to \u010ciurlionis, inviting him to come to Vilnius and perform as concert at the event. Soon after, he arrived in Vilnius. After learning that he was going to be at the dress rehearsal of Gabrielius Landsbergis-\u017demkalnis' play she went there with Felicija Bortkevi\u010dien\u0117 to coordinate the details of the upcoming concert. Sofija later commented in her memmoires, that when seeing Konstantinas, \u201cSuddenly a huge wave washed over my heart. I knew absolutely everything. \u2018It\u2019s him\u2019 I said to myself as if surrounded by a nebula while I was waiting for Bortkevi\u010dien\u0117 to bring him to me.\u201d \u010ciurlionis kindly agreed to participate in the event, which took place a week later. Sofija\u2019s words about Kudirka, imbued with romantic pathos, greatly influenced the audience. \u010ciurlionis performed after the intermission and afterwards sat down next to the twenty-one-year-old girl. He said, \u201cYou spoke so beautifully. While listening to you, I decided that you will teach me Lithuanian.\" Sofija did not object.<\/p><p>\u010ciurlionis thus described Sofija after their first acquaintance: \u201cMiss Kymantait\u0117 is very beautiful. She completed Baraniecki\u2019s advanced courses in Krak\u00f3w, works in the editorial office of the Viltis newspaper and speaks excellent Lithuanian. She doesn\u2019t want to give me lessons, but that\u2019s all right.\" The two would meet in her rented room three times a week. They studied the Lithuanian language from Jonas Jablonskis' textbook and also from songbooks collected by Antanas Ju\u0161ka, Liudvikas R\u0117za. They also discussed literature, music and art. Soon they became close friends and the young woman wrote articles for the press inviting more people to join the choir directed by \u010ciurlionis.<\/p><p>Shortly after the opening of the Second Lithuanian Art Exhibition, the artist invited her to this room. This is how Sofija remembered the encounter \u201cThere was a small sofa by the window with a round table in front of it, and a piano by the wall on the right. I sat down on the sofa and closed my eyes. Konstantinas improvised. How much time had passed - half an hour, an hour - I do not know. The music fell silent and twilight filled the room. In that twilight it seemed to me that the melodies were continuing to sway. I stood up - incredible joy and an endless sadness took my breath away. I got up from my place and, standing behind him, I began to stroke the back of his head and bent down to kiss his proud forehead. Without a word, he pressed my hands to his lips. It was the line that neither of us deared to cross.\"<\/p><p>The creative ideas of Konstantinas and Sofija became quickly intertwined. \u010ciurlionis\u2019 songs for the choir were composed based on his fianc\u00e9e\u2019s poetry, they both collaborated on the J\u016brat\u0117 opera project, a series of essays jointly written by them comprised the book \"In Lithuania\".<\/p><figure id=\"attachment_1024\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1024\" style=\"width: 224px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-1024 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/gidas.mkcnamai.lt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/M._K._Ciurlionis_su_zmona_Sofija.LH6314-224x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"224\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/gidas.mkcnamai.lt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/M._K._Ciurlionis_su_zmona_Sofija.LH6314-224x300.jpg 224w, https:\/\/gidas.mkcnamai.lt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/M._K._Ciurlionis_su_zmona_Sofija.LH6314-766x1024.jpg 766w, https:\/\/gidas.mkcnamai.lt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/M._K._Ciurlionis_su_zmona_Sofija.LH6314-768x1027.jpg 768w, https:\/\/gidas.mkcnamai.lt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/M._K._Ciurlionis_su_zmona_Sofija.LH6314-9x12.jpg 9w, https:\/\/gidas.mkcnamai.lt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/M._K._Ciurlionis_su_zmona_Sofija.LH6314-600x802.jpg 600w, https:\/\/gidas.mkcnamai.lt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/M._K._Ciurlionis_su_zmona_Sofija.LH6314.jpg 1100w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 224px) 100vw, 224px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1024\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sofija ir Mikalojus Konstantinas \u010ciurlioniai Plung\u0117je, 1909<\/figcaption><\/figure><p>Through his friendship with Sofija, the young woman whose \u201ceyes were like the sea\u201d, Konstantinas had the opportunity to visit her hometown of Plung\u0117 and to spend several summer months by the Baltic Sea in Palanga. These experiences greatly enhanced his creative powers. While at the seaside, he began to paint some of his most impressive cycles \u2013 The Sea Sonata, Prelude and Fugue, the triptych Fantasy. On January 1, 1909, the couple got married and left for St. Petersburg. \u010ciurlionis returned to Vilnius for only a few weeks in June. It was the last time that \u010ciurlionis was to perform in this city. He had also been commissioned to paint a stage curtain for the R\u016bta society. Sofija, who had already become Mrs. \u010ciurlionien\u0117 also contributed to the project. \u010ciurlionis wrote, \u201cI painted the curtain for the R\u016bta Lithuanian Society. I was very happy. I stretched a 6 by 4 meter canvas on the wall, primed it myself, sketched out the contours with charcoal in two days, and then, with the help of a ladder, the painting was done on fast forward. Zos\u0117 helped me a lot in designing the flowers, and the work went squeaking forward.\u201d After closing the door of this improvised workshop, \u010ciurlionis never resided in Vilnius again, although he did occasionally visit in the autumn of that year, before he left for St. Petersburg.<\/p><p>Konstantinui nor\u0117josi parodysi savo darbus\u00a0 dailinink\u0173 samb\u016bri\u0173 \u201eMeno pasaulis\u201c, \u201eSalonas\u201c parodose. Jis gana greitai, nors ir ne vienbalsiai, sulauk\u0117 \u0161i\u0173 i\u0161ranki\u0173 meno reformatori\u0173 pripa\u017einimo \u2012 deja, liga progresavo grei\u010diau. I\u0161 anuometin\u0117s Rusijos sostin\u0117s 1908-1909 metais ra\u0161yti Konstantino meil\u0117s lai\u0161kai Sofijai \u0161iandien laikomi \u0161io \u017eanro palikimo \u201eaukso fondo\u201c dalimi. Jie padeda geriau pa\u017einti ne tik biografijos \u012fvykius, bet ir be galo jautri\u0105, gro\u017eio i\u0161siilgusi\u0105 menininko siel\u0105.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<section class=\"has_eae_slider elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-d0ee6be elementor-section-height-min-height elementor-section-content-top elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-items-middle\" data-id=\"d0ee6be\" data-element_type=\"section\" id=\"sk9\" data-settings=\"{&quot;background_background&quot;:&quot;classic&quot;}\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-extended\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-row\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"has_eae_slider elementor-column elementor-col-33 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-dfe5a8a\" data-id=\"dfe5a8a\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-settings=\"{&quot;background_background&quot;:&quot;classic&quot;}\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-1b196d6 elementor-widget elementor-widget-image\" data-id=\"1b196d6\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"image.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-image\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" width=\"896\" height=\"624\" src=\"https:\/\/gidas.mkcnamai.lt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Pazistamu-albumas.jpg\" class=\"attachment-full size-full\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" srcset=\"https:\/\/gidas.mkcnamai.lt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Pazistamu-albumas.jpg 896w, https:\/\/gidas.mkcnamai.lt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Pazistamu-albumas-300x209.jpg 300w, https:\/\/gidas.mkcnamai.lt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Pazistamu-albumas-768x535.jpg 768w, https:\/\/gidas.mkcnamai.lt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Pazistamu-albumas-16x12.jpg 16w, https:\/\/gidas.mkcnamai.lt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Pazistamu-albumas-600x418.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 896px) 100vw, 896px\" \/>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"has_eae_slider elementor-column elementor-col-33 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-ca66ccc\" data-id=\"ca66ccc\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-85bfb80 elementor-widget__width-auto elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"85bfb80\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-text-editor elementor-clearfix\">\n\t\t\t\t<h5 style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"> 9. ALBUM OF ACQUAINTANCES<br \/><\/span><\/h5>\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-246f952 elementor-widget elementor-widget-wp-widget-media_audio\" data-id=\"246f952\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-no-translation=\"\" data-widget_type=\"wp-widget-media_audio.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t<style>.elementor-element-246f952{display:none !important}<\/style>\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-75bada6 elementor-widget elementor-widget-wp-widget-media_audio\" data-id=\"75bada6\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-no-translation=\"\" data-widget_type=\"wp-widget-media_audio.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-27-42\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/gidas.mkcnamai.lt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/mkcgidas_en_09.mp3?_=42\" \/><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/gidas.mkcnamai.lt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/mkcgidas_en_09.mp3?_=42\" \/><source type=\"audio\/ogg\" src=\"https:\/\/gidas.mkcnamai.lt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/mkcgidas_en_09.ogg?_=42\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/gidas.mkcnamai.lt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/mkcgidas_en_09.mp3\">https:\/\/gidas.mkcnamai.lt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/mkcgidas_en_09.mp3<\/a><\/audio>\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-9ae8af4 elementor-widget elementor-widget-wp-widget-media_audio\" data-id=\"9ae8af4\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-no-translation=\"\" data-widget_type=\"wp-widget-media_audio.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t<style>.elementor-element-9ae8af4{display:none !important}<\/style>\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-5064b97 elementor-widget elementor-widget-wp-widget-media_audio\" data-id=\"5064b97\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-no-translation=\"\" data-widget_type=\"wp-widget-media_audio.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t<style>.elementor-element-5064b97{display:none !important}<\/style>\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-0115146 elementor-widget elementor-widget-wp-widget-media_audio\" data-id=\"0115146\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-no-translation=\"\" data-widget_type=\"wp-widget-media_audio.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t<style>.elementor-element-0115146{display:none !important}<\/style>\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"has_eae_slider elementor-column elementor-col-33 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-ede4276\" data-id=\"ede4276\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-3dc5913 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"3dc5913\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-text-editor elementor-clearfix\">\n\t\t\t\t<p>Once he had settled in Vilnius, \u010ciurlionis wrote in a letter to Halina Wolman, \u201cI want to describe in broad strokes my life here. First of all, the abundance of jobs that I was expecting here has turned out to have just been a dream. I\u2019ve been suffering without a job from the moment that I arrived.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-856b43e elementor-widget elementor-widget-jet-view-more\" data-id=\"856b43e\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"jet-view-more.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"jet-view-more\" data-settings=\"{&quot;effect&quot;:&quot;move-up&quot;,&quot;sections&quot;:{&quot;9aeb6ff&quot;:&quot;09-tekstas&quot;},&quot;showall&quot;:false}\"><div class=\"jet-view-more__button\"><div class=\"jet-view-more__label\">read more...<\/div><\/div><\/div>\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<section class=\"has_eae_slider elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-83e3c59 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"83e3c59\" data-element_type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-row\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"has_eae_slider elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-eeb7c93\" data-id=\"eeb7c93\" data-element_type=\"column\" id=\"09-tekstas\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-b8a7b75 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"b8a7b75\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-text-editor elementor-clearfix\">\n\t\t\t\t<p>I have only one student who comes once a week. As a matter of fact, I recently started conducting a choir four times a week, but I\u2019ve already managed to catch the flu three times and, if this continues, I won't make any money with the choir either.\"<\/p><p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-728 size-medium alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/gidas.mkcnamai.lt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Domasevicius-206x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"206\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/gidas.mkcnamai.lt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Domasevicius-206x300.jpg 206w, https:\/\/gidas.mkcnamai.lt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Domasevicius-8x12.jpg 8w, https:\/\/gidas.mkcnamai.lt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Domasevicius-600x872.jpg 600w, https:\/\/gidas.mkcnamai.lt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Domasevicius.jpg 700w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 206px) 100vw, 206px\" \/><\/p><p class=\" translation-block\">When \u010ciurlionis, the director of the choir became ill, he was visited by doctor <strong>Andrius Doma\u0161evi\u010dius<\/strong>, who was a descendant of the left-wing nobility.  As soon as Mr. Doma\u0161evi\u010dius returned to Vilnius, he joined the underground Lithuanian resistance group, the  so-called \"Twelve Apostles of Vilnius\". He was the also the founded the Lithuanian Social Democratic Party, and helped organize the Great Seimas of Vilnius in 1905. He ran a private clinic as well as a hospital was interested in music and wrote articles for the Lithuanian press. \u010ciurlionis described him thus, \u201cDr. Doma\u0161evi\u010dius is highly intelligent, passionately in love with classical music, has dark hair and blue eyes and cared for me very attentively when I was ill.\u201d \n\nFor a while, the musician couldn't even compose - he was able to rent a piano only after the New Year. That is why he drew portraits of the people he met during that time with words, rather than with a paintbrush.<\/p><p class=\" translation-block\"><img class=\"alignright wp-image-732 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/gidas.mkcnamai.lt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Jonas-ir-Ona-Vileisiai-300x193.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"193\" \/>He first described a couple who were kindly disposed towards him and helped him when he was looking for ways to support hiself in Vilnius. They were <strong>Jonas and Ona Vilei\u0161is<\/strong>. At the time, Jonas was the chairman of the Vilnius Kankl\u0117s Society, and was one of the founders along with \u010ciurlionis of the Lithuanian Artist Society. Elected secretary, he seemingly didn\u2019t have the time to manage these duties, and that is why \u010ciurlionis took a bit of a swipe at him in his description, \u201cJonas Vilei\u0161is is a very nice man who is a bit of an aristocrat, a bit bourgeois and a member of every single Lithuanian society in Vilnius, it would seem, only for the fact of belonging to it. He is very much in love with his wife\u201d. And she was certainly someone to fall in love with: Jonas Vilei\u0161is met Ona, a beautiful girl from the aristocratic Kossakowski family, who was completely taken with her husband\u2019s national ideals and began not only to speak, but to also to write Lithuanian. \u010ciurlionis played four-hand piano with her. She was warm and sincere, always ready to entertain a guest. The home of this young family somewhat filled the loss of the Wolman family\u2019s hospitality who had remained in Warsaw.<\/p><p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-734 size-medium alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/gidas.mkcnamai.lt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/P.-Vileisis-1905-Fot.-T.-Chodzka-VRAV127-194x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"194\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/gidas.mkcnamai.lt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/P.-Vileisis-1905-Fot.-T.-Chodzka-VRAV127-194x300.jpg 194w, https:\/\/gidas.mkcnamai.lt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/P.-Vileisis-1905-Fot.-T.-Chodzka-VRAV127-661x1024.jpg 661w, https:\/\/gidas.mkcnamai.lt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/P.-Vileisis-1905-Fot.-T.-Chodzka-VRAV127-768x1189.jpg 768w, https:\/\/gidas.mkcnamai.lt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/P.-Vileisis-1905-Fot.-T.-Chodzka-VRAV127-8x12.jpg 8w, https:\/\/gidas.mkcnamai.lt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/P.-Vileisis-1905-Fot.-T.-Chodzka-VRAV127-600x929.jpg 600w, https:\/\/gidas.mkcnamai.lt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/P.-Vileisis-1905-Fot.-T.-Chodzka-VRAV127.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 194px) 100vw, 194px\" \/><\/p><p class=\" translation-block\">In his list of new acquaintances, \u010ciurlionis also mentioned Jonas' brother <strong>Petras Vilei\u0161is<\/strong>, a vocally dedicated supporter of the Lithuanian national movement. After completing his studies and becoming a railway bridge engineer, he worked as a construction contractor for structures requiring caissons in the depths of Russia and accumulated a considerable amount of wealth that he used upon his return to Lithuania not only to set up a business, but also donated to the first Lithuanian daily, Vilnius News, to a Lithuanian printing house and a bookstore. Many of the nation's most enlightened people, such as Jonas Basanavi\u010dius, Gabriel\u0117 Petkevi\u010dait\u0117-Bit\u0117, Mykolas and Vaclovas Bir\u017ei\u0161ka and Juozas Tumas-Vai\u017egantas  who organized the Great Seimas of Vilnius, had been able to set up residence in Vilnius in 1905 thanks to jobs provided by Petras Vilei\u0161is. The first Lithuanian art show was held at his mansion and Lithuanians were able to view \u010ciurlionis\u2019 works for the first time. He was a member of the Vilnius City Council for four years.<\/p><p>In this room you can see photos from the First Lithuanian Art Exposition at the Vilei\u0161is Manor. \"Petras Vilei\u0161is is a very sympathetic old man, simple, kind-hearted,\" was the way that the artist described him, adding, \"a few years ago he had about 500 thousand, and now he has been left with 50. He gave it all away to people and for various programs for the rebirth of the nation.\" In fact, Vilei\u0161is' funds dropped even more dramatically, and this prompted him to leave for Russia again to earn money. In the letter, \u010ciurlionis admitted, \"We sympathize with each other.\"<\/p><p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-1232 size-medium alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/gidas.mkcnamai.lt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Petras-Rimsa-183x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"183\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/gidas.mkcnamai.lt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Petras-Rimsa-183x300.jpg 183w, https:\/\/gidas.mkcnamai.lt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Petras-Rimsa-7x12.jpg 7w, https:\/\/gidas.mkcnamai.lt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Petras-Rimsa.jpg 483w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 183px) 100vw, 183px\" \/><\/p><p class=\" translation-block\">While hanging his paintings for his first exhibition, \u010ciurlionis became acquainted with the twenty-seven-year-old artist <strong>Petras Rim\u0161a<\/strong>, who was one of the first in the press to Lithuanian artists to think about a joint exhibition of their work. At the beginning, Rim\u0161a, who had come to Vilnius from a rural environment, was a bit shy around his older colleague, but soon became close friends with him and became a dedicated assistant when \u010ciurlionis was organizing the Second Lithuanian Art Exhibition. Later, Rim\u0161a recalled with pleasure what a good mood had prevailed when the artists hung the First Lithuanian Art Exhibition. \u201cOf course, the soul of the good mood in our circle was Antanas \u017dmuidzinavi\u010dius. But \u010ciurlionis was also a part of it. They were both also wonderful at singing while preparing the exhibition. After all, it\u2019s natural to work while singing. It seems like today that I see \u010ciurlionis and \u017dmuidzinavi\u010dius up high on ladders and hanging paintings. And then a wonderful song from Dz\u016bkija starts to pour out of their young hearts, \"Oh, the woods, the woods...\" We would get so involved in the singing that work stopped altogether. The preparation of the exhibition cemented the artists into a very close friendship that was quite rare.\u201d<\/p><p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-736 size-medium alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/gidas.mkcnamai.lt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/antanaszmuidzinavicius_original-245x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"245\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/gidas.mkcnamai.lt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/antanaszmuidzinavicius_original-245x300.jpg 245w, https:\/\/gidas.mkcnamai.lt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/antanaszmuidzinavicius_original-768x940.jpg 768w, https:\/\/gidas.mkcnamai.lt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/antanaszmuidzinavicius_original-10x12.jpg 10w, https:\/\/gidas.mkcnamai.lt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/antanaszmuidzinavicius_original-600x734.jpg 600w, https:\/\/gidas.mkcnamai.lt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/antanaszmuidzinavicius_original.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 245px) 100vw, 245px\" \/><\/p><p class=\" translation-block\">In September of 1907, the landscape artist <strong>Antanas \u017dmuidzinavi\u010dius<\/strong>, who had studied in Warsaw and Paris, became the chairman of the newly established Lithuanian Art Society. He remained in this position throughout the life of the society. When in 1908 he set out to further his studies in Munich and raise funds for the society for travel to America, \u010ciurlionis replaced the chairman in all of the organizational work. \u017dmuidzinavi\u010dius remembered how, at the opening of the First Exhibition, Konstantinas came in all dressed up with an oversized bow tie. There was one young lady, who upon seeing his strange paintings in which \"the underground mingled with the sky\", decided that she wanted to see the artist himself, whom she thought would probably \u201clook like God knows what.\u201d And \u010ciurlionis, who was standing nearby, was quick with an answer, \"Madam, he's truly horrible: like a dragon who swallows virgins.\" \u017dmuidzinavi\u010dius, who loved concerts, continued on for a long while about what an impression Konstantinas\u2019 music made on him, \"When \u010ciurlionis would play, life in this world came to an end: the artist himself would transcend this world and take his listeners along with him to other more beautiful worlds of dreams and mirages.\"<\/p><p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-737 size-medium alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/gidas.mkcnamai.lt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/L.Antokolskis-1908-LL90-001-192x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"192\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/gidas.mkcnamai.lt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/L.Antokolskis-1908-LL90-001-192x300.jpg 192w, https:\/\/gidas.mkcnamai.lt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/L.Antokolskis-1908-LL90-001-657x1024.jpg 657w, https:\/\/gidas.mkcnamai.lt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/L.Antokolskis-1908-LL90-001-8x12.jpg 8w, https:\/\/gidas.mkcnamai.lt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/L.Antokolskis-1908-LL90-001-600x935.jpg 600w, https:\/\/gidas.mkcnamai.lt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/L.Antokolskis-1908-LL90-001.jpg 750w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 192px) 100vw, 192px\" \/><\/p><p class=\" translation-block\">After moving to Vilnius, \u010ciurlionis stayed in close contact not only with Lithuanian artists. One of his most important acquaintances was with a contemporary artist <strong>Lev (Leiba) Antokolskis<\/strong>. After he graduated from the Vilnius School of Drawing and studied with Ilya Repin at the Imperial Academy of Arts in St. Petersburg, he spent a bit of time in Paris. For the past five years, he had already been the director of drawing classes at the Vilnius Jewish Crafts School in Vilnius. The school had been initiated by the Society of Industrial Arts, which a year ago had bestowed the institution with the name of Lev's uncle, the famous sculptor Mark (Marduch) Antokolskis. \u010ciurlionis' vivid imagination first caught the artist's attention when he visited the First Lithuanian Exhibition. His symbolic works immediately appeared to be \"full of deep philosophical meaning,\" and he equated the original interpretation of musical themes to a \"shining, dazzling meteor.\" Later, \u010ciurlionis met with Lev Antokolskis on organizational matters at the Vilnius Art Society. The artist's acquaintance with representatives of the Art World in St. Petersburg proved to be very useful for \u010ciurlionis in establishing business relations in the then capital of tsarist Russia. After Konstantinas\u2019 death, Antokolskis remembered how he loved the crooked streets of Vilnius. \u201cI remember one autumn evening when I visited his little room on Andrejaus Street where there was nothing but a piano, a bunch of handwritten music scores and dried out autumn branches hanging on the walls. He was there alone with his ingenious ideas and the sound of his music surprised one with its grief...\u201d In this modest home, conversations were often extended through music by fingers running along the <em>Lippenberg<\/em> piano\u2019s keyboard.<\/p><p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-738 size-medium alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/gidas.mkcnamai.lt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/I.-Truttnev-autoportr.-1901-LDM-JS70-001-257x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"257\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/gidas.mkcnamai.lt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/I.-Truttnev-autoportr.-1901-LDM-JS70-001-257x300.jpg 257w, https:\/\/gidas.mkcnamai.lt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/I.-Truttnev-autoportr.-1901-LDM-JS70-001-877x1024.jpg 877w, https:\/\/gidas.mkcnamai.lt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/I.-Truttnev-autoportr.-1901-LDM-JS70-001-768x897.jpg 768w, https:\/\/gidas.mkcnamai.lt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/I.-Truttnev-autoportr.-1901-LDM-JS70-001-10x12.jpg 10w, https:\/\/gidas.mkcnamai.lt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/I.-Truttnev-autoportr.-1901-LDM-JS70-001-600x701.jpg 600w, https:\/\/gidas.mkcnamai.lt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/I.-Truttnev-autoportr.-1901-LDM-JS70-001.jpg 1000w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 257px) 100vw, 257px\" \/><\/p><p class=\" translation-block\">\u010ciurlionis was also visited in his room by <strong>Ivan Trutnev<\/strong>, a painter of religious and folk scenes and portraits in the academic tradition, who was already eighty years old at the time. After studying in Moscow and then touring the cities of France, Germany, Belgium, the Netherlands and Italy, he worked in Vitebsk, and for the past four decades headed a drawing school in Vilnius. He had earned the title of Academician of the St. Petersburg Academy of Arts, as well as the titles of State Counselor and True State Counselor. Among the works of Ivan Trutnev was a project for a monument to the \u201cHangman of Vilnius\u201d Mikhail Muravyov, but \u010ciurlionis may not have known about it.<\/p><p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-739 size-medium alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/gidas.mkcnamai.lt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Ferdynandas-Ruszczycas-227x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"227\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/gidas.mkcnamai.lt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Ferdynandas-Ruszczycas-227x300.jpg 227w, https:\/\/gidas.mkcnamai.lt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Ferdynandas-Ruszczycas-9x12.jpg 9w, https:\/\/gidas.mkcnamai.lt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Ferdynandas-Ruszczycas-600x794.jpg 600w, https:\/\/gidas.mkcnamai.lt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Ferdynandas-Ruszczycas.jpg 700w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 227px) 100vw, 227px\" \/><\/p><p class=\" translation-block\">At the end of 1908, <strong>Ferdynand Ruszczyc<\/strong>, who had taught  painting to \u010ciurlionis at the Warsaw School of Art and had somewhat influenced him, moved to Vilnius. They were both artists of virtually the same generation as they were born only 5 years apart. After having studied in St. Petersburg, traveling to Munich, Berlin, Dresden, Paris, Vienna, and working at the Krakow Academy of Arts in for a year, Vilnius attracted Ruszczyc because of its less pretentious environment, and because an early exhibition of his works had taken place in this city. The house in U\u017eupis where Ruszczyc lived was relatively close to \u010ciurlionis' rented apartment and the two artists would occasionally meet. Once, when Ruszczyc visited the Lithuanian Art Exhibition, he commented that only \u010ciurlionis\u2019 works were worthy of note. Although Ruszczyc liked the Scherzo from <em>Sonata<\/em> and the entire Zodiac series, he couldn\u2019t refrain from reproaching the artist for too much Kabbalism and too little actual painting in his work.<\/p><p>After the death of \u010ciurlionis, Ruszczyc, who was one of the bearers of his coffin and gave a eulogy at the gravesite, focused on his essential impression of Konstantinas. \u201cWe have gathered to say goodbye to a person of unadulterated purity, to a friend with noble aspirations, and will remember him deep in our thoughts as a tragically interrupted song.\n\nHe left us for other worlds, about which he dreamed during his such short life, to that distant country, with which we are not familiar, but we know of it, we are it and feel it inside of us. \u010ciurlionis is building bridges of colors and sounds from our shore. To others, \u010ciurlionis was an expression of that dual homeland from which arise both the artist and the man - a homeland with one great Spirit, which, regardless of age or nationality, unites our souls into one great community. And the others are our own lands, against which her son nestles with love. There is one painting by \u010ciurlionis, well known to you. A bird emerges from the breaking dawn, passing by the peaks of mountains with the wide flutter of its wings, quickly flying away into the distance. This is <em>The Message<\/em>. That was \u010ciurlionis\u2019 message. He was the harbinger of new, young art, on which he left his own mark. And he proclaimed to his land and to his countrymen the beauty of the spring that was awakening in them. And so, he left us in the spring.\"<\/p><p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-740 size-medium alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/gidas.mkcnamai.lt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Fleury-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/gidas.mkcnamai.lt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Fleury-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/gidas.mkcnamai.lt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Fleury-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/gidas.mkcnamai.lt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Fleury-9x12.jpg 9w, https:\/\/gidas.mkcnamai.lt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Fleury-600x800.jpg 600w, https:\/\/gidas.mkcnamai.lt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Fleury.jpg 1000w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/p><p class=\" translation-block\">Another artistic soul close to the environment of the Vilnius Art Society was <strong>Stanis\u0142aw Filiber(t)as Fleury<\/strong>. After graduating from the Vilnius School of Drawing and learning the secrets of the craft of photography in the workshops of several famous masters, he decided to establish his own photo studio. He liked not only photographing the images of Vilnius, but also painting the landscapes of this city  and illustrating some books. Later on, he was one of the first to begin producing stereoscopic photographs in Vilnius. When \u010ciurlionis arrived here, he had been working in his studio on Did\u017eioji Street for close to two decades. Because the studio was very close to Konstantinas\u2019 rented apartment, he dropped by his colleague\u2019s place on the morning of June 1908 to have his picture taken. His fianc\u00e9e Sofija Kymantait\u0117 said that the photo was taken after they had both spent the night together on Gediminas Hill. \u201cThat morning, without practically any sleep, after having transported a piano and being dead tired, he remembered that he had promised a photo to \u0160altinis. He stepped into the photographer\u2019s studio and the result is the photo that everyone has seen. But, in that photo there is something that has died - there is no clarity in his expression, no matter how gray the face \u2013 the constant glow of his eyes is missing.\u201d \u2018I was so tired that I didn't even comb my hair\u2019, he tried explaining afterwards.\" You can see the photograph hanging on the wall in this room.<\/p><p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-1163 size-medium alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/gidas.mkcnamai.lt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Antanas_Vileishis_cutd-195x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"195\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/gidas.mkcnamai.lt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Antanas_Vileishis_cutd-195x300.jpg 195w, https:\/\/gidas.mkcnamai.lt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Antanas_Vileishis_cutd-8x12.jpg 8w, https:\/\/gidas.mkcnamai.lt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Antanas_Vileishis_cutd-600x922.jpg 600w, https:\/\/gidas.mkcnamai.lt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Antanas_Vileishis_cutd.jpg 644w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 195px) 100vw, 195px\" \/><\/p><p class=\" translation-block\"><strong>Antanas Vilei\u0161is<\/strong>, an active participant in the Great Seimas and the Science Society, also worked in the organizing committee of the First Lithuanian Art Exhibition. Being a progressive left-wing man, the doctor was sincere in his efforts to found societies for his socially vulnerable countrymen and also worked in the Vilnius City Duma. \u010ciurlionis conducted some of the choir's rehearsals at the premises of the Vilnius Lithuanian Mutual Relief Society, and Antanas Vilei\u0161is was the chairman of this society.<\/p><p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-741 size-medium alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/gidas.mkcnamai.lt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Liudas-Gira.-Vilnius-1915-m._is-Maironio-muz-178x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"178\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/gidas.mkcnamai.lt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Liudas-Gira.-Vilnius-1915-m._is-Maironio-muz-178x300.jpg 178w, https:\/\/gidas.mkcnamai.lt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Liudas-Gira.-Vilnius-1915-m._is-Maironio-muz-607x1024.jpg 607w, https:\/\/gidas.mkcnamai.lt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Liudas-Gira.-Vilnius-1915-m._is-Maironio-muz-768x1296.jpg 768w, https:\/\/gidas.mkcnamai.lt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Liudas-Gira.-Vilnius-1915-m._is-Maironio-muz-7x12.jpg 7w, https:\/\/gidas.mkcnamai.lt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Liudas-Gira.-Vilnius-1915-m._is-Maironio-muz-592x999.jpg 592w, https:\/\/gidas.mkcnamai.lt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Liudas-Gira.-Vilnius-1915-m._is-Maironio-muz.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 178px) 100vw, 178px\" \/><\/p><p class=\" translation-block\">Konstantinas was visited in his home by the writer <strong>Liudas Gira<\/strong> from Dz\u016bkija, who wrote poetry and contributed his writings to many periodicals. The composer had asked him to translate a song for which he had composed music from Polish into Lithuanian. His musical improvisations evoked a string of romantic images in the soul of the twenty-four-year-old. \u201cHis hands, like lightning, evoked chords from all over the keyboard. Piano and forte melodies swayed like the tops of Dz\u016bkija\u2019s pines, swinging in the wind,\u201d was the way Gira described the work, which, as far as the writer remembers, the composer called Bells. At that time, the composer spoke about the importance of dissonance, which one can also hear in Lithuanian multi-part songs. Perhaps their mutual interest in folk songs and folk art connected them, because when \u010ciurlionis started painting sonatas, Gira wrote in the press that he regretted the vagueness of this type of theme, preferring \"fairy tales\".<\/p><p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-742 size-medium alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/gidas.mkcnamai.lt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/kipras-petrauskas-190x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"190\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/gidas.mkcnamai.lt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/kipras-petrauskas-190x300.jpg 190w, https:\/\/gidas.mkcnamai.lt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/kipras-petrauskas-647x1024.jpg 647w, https:\/\/gidas.mkcnamai.lt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/kipras-petrauskas-8x12.jpg 8w, https:\/\/gidas.mkcnamai.lt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/kipras-petrauskas-600x949.jpg 600w, https:\/\/gidas.mkcnamai.lt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/kipras-petrauskas.jpg 650w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 190px) 100vw, 190px\" \/><\/p><p class=\" translation-block\">\u010ciurlionis had a number of rehearsals and concerts with the St. Petersburg Conservatory vocal class student <strong>Kipras Petrauskas<\/strong>, who became well known to the Lithuanian public after his performance in the melodrama Birut\u0117 where he played the part of Birut\u0117's brother. It is not known whether \u010ciurlionis was acquainted with the first composer of a Lithuanian opera Mikas Petrauskas, but there is no doubt that he met with the author of the libretto <strong>Gabrielius Landsbergis-\u017demkalnis<\/strong>.<\/p><p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-997 alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/gidas.mkcnamai.lt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/G.-Landsberg-Zemkaln-1-246x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"246\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/gidas.mkcnamai.lt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/G.-Landsberg-Zemkaln-1-246x300.jpg 246w, https:\/\/gidas.mkcnamai.lt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/G.-Landsberg-Zemkaln-1-768x935.jpg 768w, https:\/\/gidas.mkcnamai.lt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/G.-Landsberg-Zemkaln-1-10x12.jpg 10w, https:\/\/gidas.mkcnamai.lt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/G.-Landsberg-Zemkaln-1-600x731.jpg 600w, https:\/\/gidas.mkcnamai.lt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/G.-Landsberg-Zemkaln-1.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 246px) 100vw, 246px\" \/><\/p><p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-743 size-medium alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/gidas.mkcnamai.lt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Marija-Piaseckaite-Slapeliene-186x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"186\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/gidas.mkcnamai.lt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Marija-Piaseckaite-Slapeliene-186x300.jpg 186w, https:\/\/gidas.mkcnamai.lt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Marija-Piaseckaite-Slapeliene-635x1024.jpg 635w, https:\/\/gidas.mkcnamai.lt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Marija-Piaseckaite-Slapeliene-768x1239.jpg 768w, https:\/\/gidas.mkcnamai.lt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Marija-Piaseckaite-Slapeliene-7x12.jpg 7w, https:\/\/gidas.mkcnamai.lt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Marija-Piaseckaite-Slapeliene-600x968.jpg 600w, https:\/\/gidas.mkcnamai.lt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Marija-Piaseckaite-Slapeliene.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 186px) 100vw, 186px\" \/><\/p><p class=\" translation-block\"><strong>Marija Piaseckait\u0117-\u0160lapelien\u0117<\/strong>, who played the main role in this melodrama, also sang in the choir led by \u010ciurlionis. Rehearsals took place quite late - after a day's work was done. For over a year, Marija had been managing a Lithuanian bookstore that she had opened, while at the same time raising her young first-born daughter, so she decided not to pursue a career as a vocalist. However, singing in the choir helped her to nurture her hobby. On dark winter evenings, \u010ciurlionis often had to accompany his choir member until she returned to her home on Sarac\u0117n\u0173 Street.<\/p><p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-744 size-medium alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/gidas.mkcnamai.lt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/gimbutaite3-188x300.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"188\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/gidas.mkcnamai.lt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/gimbutaite3-188x300.jpeg 188w, https:\/\/gidas.mkcnamai.lt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/gimbutaite3-641x1024.jpeg 641w, https:\/\/gidas.mkcnamai.lt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/gimbutaite3-768x1227.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/gidas.mkcnamai.lt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/gimbutaite3-8x12.jpeg 8w, https:\/\/gidas.mkcnamai.lt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/gimbutaite3-600x959.jpeg 600w, https:\/\/gidas.mkcnamai.lt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/gimbutaite3.jpeg 900w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 188px) 100vw, 188px\" \/><\/p><p class=\" translation-block\">During preparations for the Second Lithuanian Art Exhibition, \u010ciurlionis was earnestly assisted by several loyal helpers of the society - <strong>Sofija Gimbutait\u0117<\/strong>, who came from Lithuanian nobility and had acquired the profession of a dentist in Paris and Marija Putvinskyt\u0117. Together with \u010ciurlionis,  Sofija Gimbutait\u0117 joined the board of the Lithuanian Art Society, was the organization's treasurer and later served as a secretary. She sincerely believed that a necessary condition for the survival of the culture of every nation was the development of art as well as the establishment of a national museum and contributed as much as possible to the realization of this goal. Sofija donated a huge amount to the society and this ensured her membership in the organization for life. The headquarters of the Society were registered at the address of her apartment on the former Preobrazhenskaya Street. Letters and the works of professional artists as well as folk artists who intended to participate in the exhibition were sent here. From there, Konstantinas carried them to framers, and later to the premises rented for the exhibition. She not only fixed the teeth of needy artists for free, but also allowed them to spend the night in her office, \"lending\" them money free of charge. \u010ciurlionis had also used these same services more than once. In the autumn of 1907, he stayed with Gimbutait\u0117 until he found a room for rent on Andrejevskaya Street \u2013 where we are right now. Even when he moved out, he went to this caring woman every day for lunch. Sometimes, when he was too busy, she brought lunch to the artist at his rented place. \u201cShe is an incredible creation. She brought me borscht today and warmed it up on the small stovetop. I lunch at her place and she has started to fix my teeth,\" admitted Konstantinas. Unable to pay for lunch, the artist presented Gimbutait\u0117 with his green-colored painting Boat. Gimbutait\u0117 had also acquired the first part of \u010ciurlionis' diptych Sadness. Before her death in October of 1911 she bequeathed both paintings to the Lithuanian Art Society.<\/p><p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-745 size-medium alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/gidas.mkcnamai.lt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Marija-Zmuidzinaviciene-181x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"181\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/gidas.mkcnamai.lt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Marija-Zmuidzinaviciene-181x300.jpg 181w, https:\/\/gidas.mkcnamai.lt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Marija-Zmuidzinaviciene-618x1024.jpg 618w, https:\/\/gidas.mkcnamai.lt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Marija-Zmuidzinaviciene-7x12.jpg 7w, https:\/\/gidas.mkcnamai.lt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Marija-Zmuidzinaviciene-600x993.jpg 600w, https:\/\/gidas.mkcnamai.lt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Marija-Zmuidzinaviciene.jpg 700w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 181px) 100vw, 181px\" \/><\/p><p class=\" translation-block\">Patrons of the Art Society would also gather in <strong>Marija Putvinskyt\u0117's<\/strong> apartment. After arriving in Vilnius in the summer of 1906, Marija opened her dental office there and became actively involved in the preparations for the first Lithuanian art exhibition. She participated in the founding and board meetings of the Lithuanian Art Society and assisted many societies. Marija was close friends with Antanas \u017dmuidzinavi\u010dius, and when he went abroad, she assisted Konstantinas in organizing the exhibition. While on duty in the halls and at the cash register, she remembered how visitors reacted to symbolic art. When an alleged art connoisseur pointed to a painting by \u010ciurlionis and asked out loud, \"A to <strong>ja<\/strong>ki <strong>wa<\/strong>riat namalowa\u0142?\", he was unflustered and replied, \u201cA to ja\u201d to the laughter of bystanders.   In his letter to Marija, the artist described her as \u201can enthusiast. She's nice and plays billiards.\" After getting to know her better, he experienced how kind and generous she was. When he had to go to Warsaw to print the exhibition posters, it was Marija who provided him with train tickets.<\/p><p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-746 size-medium alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/gidas.mkcnamai.lt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/PuidienePleiryteO-184x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"184\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/gidas.mkcnamai.lt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/PuidienePleiryteO-184x300.jpg 184w, https:\/\/gidas.mkcnamai.lt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/PuidienePleiryteO-629x1024.jpg 629w, https:\/\/gidas.mkcnamai.lt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/PuidienePleiryteO-768x1250.jpg 768w, https:\/\/gidas.mkcnamai.lt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/PuidienePleiryteO-7x12.jpg 7w, https:\/\/gidas.mkcnamai.lt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/PuidienePleiryteO-600x977.jpg 600w, https:\/\/gidas.mkcnamai.lt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/PuidienePleiryteO.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 184px) 100vw, 184px\" \/><\/p><p class=\" translation-block\">The journalist and writer <strong>Ona Pleiryt\u0117<\/strong>, who had recently married Kazimieras Puida, a great fan of literature, exhibited an exceptional amount of exalted attention to \u010ciurlionis. They both worked in the editorial office of the daily Vilniaus \u017dinios. Puida, who helped to organize the First Lithuanian Art Exhibition, had even held the position of managing editor for a while. However, the marriage of these young people was in crisis and so, the woman began to look around for a man who was her soulmate. She often showed up at \u010ciurlionis\u2019 side, wrote pieces based on the motifs in his paintings and published her impressions under the pseudonym of \u201cVaidilut\u0117\u201d. In gratitude for her attention, the artist presented her with his painting Longing, which was destroyed during the disasters of World War II. She has described the artist and his works quite accurately. \u201c\u010ciurlionis' paintings are extraordinary. I have visited many European museums, but I have yet to see anything like them. \n\n\u010ciurlionis himself is also extraordinary. He is one of those people who draws everyone\u2019s gaze and forces them to notice him, but, at the same time, he is constrained by his own unique and abstruse personality. He is of medium age and height, with a very strong, sharply defined facial profile that isn\u2019t very appealing and rather gloomy. But his large eyes, with their deeply penetrating gaze, a calm demeanor with a clear shadow of sadness and his extraordinary intelligence set him apart from everyone else.\u201d<\/p><p>\"These are all of the participants in the comedy or drama in which I have to live,\" is how \u010ciurlionis laughingly introduced the people he had met in Vilnius.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>1. \u012e\u017dANGA. \u010cIURLIONIO NAMAI VILNIUJE \u010ciurlionio namai gyvuoja tame pa\u010diame name, kuriame, apsisprend\u0119s apsigyventi Vilniuje, kambar\u012f 1907 met\u0173 ruden\u012f i\u0161sinuomojo Mikalojus Konstantinas \u010ciurlionis. skaityti daugiau&#8230; \u012esitraukdamas \u012f lietuvi\u0161k\u0105j\u012f kult\u016bros s\u0105j\u016bd\u012f, \u010ciurlionis, jau brandus ir sulauk\u0119s pripa\u017einimo tapytojas ir kompozitorius, o taip pat novatori\u0161kai pasaul\u012f matantis menininkas, labai ai\u0161kiai parod\u0117, kad jis priklauso tai k\u016br\u0117j\u0173 kategorijai, [&hellip;]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"elementor_header_footer","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gidas.mkcnamai.lt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/27"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gidas.mkcnamai.lt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gidas.mkcnamai.lt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gidas.mkcnamai.lt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gidas.mkcnamai.lt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27"}],"version-history":[{"count":912,"href":"https:\/\/gidas.mkcnamai.lt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/27\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1300,"href":"https:\/\/gidas.mkcnamai.lt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/27\/revisions\/1300"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gidas.mkcnamai.lt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}