CMT Originals Country - Old Country

KAVYATSKAS, Kaveckas Konradas Vlado [p. 20 X (2 XI) 1905, village Tirkshlyay, now Mazeiksky district] - Soviet composer and choir. conductor. Nar art.Litas. SSR (1960). Ch. CPSU since 1960. In 1929 he graduated from Kaunas Muses. studying in the classes of Yu. Gruodis (special harmony) and Yu. Nauyalis (organ). In 1929-33 he studied the theory of composition, playing the organ and conducting at the Schola Cantorum in Paris. Since 1936 he taught theoretical. objects in Nar. conservatory in Kaunas. In 1940, one of the organizers and teacher of muses. student in Vilnius (in 1940-46 the head of the educational department, in 1946-49 the director). In 1945-62 the head. Chair of the choir. conducting and teacher at the Vilnius Conservatory (professor since 1964). Since 1949, the main conductor of the Philharmonic Choir in Vilnius. Works in the genres of vocal instr. and the choir. music. In the work reflected the nature and life of Owls. Lithuania, widely used litas. musesfolklore. Among the essays: oratorio "The Seasons" (1965), cantata "Kaunas" (1964), a poem for soloist, choir and orc. The Four Communists (1961), chorus. Suites “Pictures of Soviet Lithuania” (1953), “The Way of Poets”; songs for the choir, including “Linden is blooming in Vilnius” (ed. 1961), arr. folk songs. I.M. Yampolsky.