Darius Kučinskas
Biographic Data
| ID | 1601064 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Darius Kučinskas |
| GIVEN NAMES | Darius |
| FAMILY NAME | Kučinskas |
| SIGNATURE | KUČINSKAS D |
| AFFILIATIONS | Lithuanian Academy of Music and Theatre |
| ORCID | 0009-0002-2154-0463 |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 5 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2006 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Digital critical edition of Čiurlionis' piano music
Mikalojus Konstantinas Čiurlionis (1875–1911) is a key figure in Lithuanian music and art. As a professional composer and painter, he left behind over 220 paintings and 350 musical compositions. His art showcases early examples of abstract painting and serial music in Europe. However, his work and contributions to the music world are not widely known. The publication of his music was delayed for 50 years, and several different systems of catalogu…
The Life and Artistic Activity of Pianist Victoria Boshko (1887-1977)
English Abstract: This article represents and reveals, for the first time, the life and artistic career of pianist Victoria Boshko. Born in New York to a family of Ukrainian immigrants, Boshko became a renowned pianist in the 1920s on the U.S. concert stage. A graduate of the prestigious Ethical Culture School and the Juilliard School, she epitomises a generation of musicians who came of age and launched their careers during the tumultuous years …
Ethnic Piano Rolls in the United States
English Abstract: A small part of piano rolls among the thousands of rolls in the United States were published for local ethnic communities. These piano rolls were never collected and have not been researched either historically or musicologically. Only a few articles in academic journals or chapters in scholarly books on this topic have appeared in the last decade. As such, this opens a new field of research, one still neglected and underappreci…
Lithuanian Piano Rolls
Lithuanian piano rolls are part of a large and still-neglected field in the U.S.: the musical heritage to be found on ethnic piano rolls. During the last ten years, the author discovered and researched several hundred Lithuanian piano rolls in order to determine their significance. These rolls are held mainly in U.S. Lithuanian archives, with additional examples located in several academic libraries. All Lithuanian rolls were issued in a relative…
Plane isometries in the music and art of Mikalojus Konstantinas Ciurlionis
Background in art history In the early twentieth century, numerous composers and artists — including Scriabin, Schoenberg, and Kandinsky — explored connections between music and visual art. Even so, Lithuanian artist-composer Mikalojus Konstantinas Ciurlionis (1875–1911) stands apart in the extent of his formal training in both areas, and the degree to which he believed the two media interpenetrated. Initially trained as a musician, Ciurlionis st…
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Plane isometries in the music and art of Mikalojus Konstantinas Ciurlionis
Background in art history In the early twentieth century, numerous composers and artists — including Scriabin, Schoenberg, and Kandinsky — explored connections between music and visual art. Even so, Lithuanian artist-composer Mikalojus Konstantinas Ciurlionis (1875–1911) stands apart in the extent of his formal training in both areas, and the degree to which he believed the two media interpenetrated. Initially trained as a musician, Ciurlionis st…
Lithuanian Piano Rolls
Lithuanian piano rolls are part of a large and still-neglected field in the U.S.: the musical heritage to be found on ethnic piano rolls. During the last ten years, the author discovered and researched several hundred Lithuanian piano rolls in order to determine their significance. These rolls are held mainly in U.S. Lithuanian archives, with additional examples located in several academic libraries. All Lithuanian rolls were issued in a relative…
Ethnic Piano Rolls in the United States
English Abstract: A small part of piano rolls among the thousands of rolls in the United States were published for local ethnic communities. These piano rolls were never collected and have not been researched either historically or musicologically. Only a few articles in academic journals or chapters in scholarly books on this topic have appeared in the last decade. As such, this opens a new field of research, one still neglected and underappreci…
Digital critical edition of Čiurlionis' piano music
Mikalojus Konstantinas Čiurlionis (1875–1911) is a key figure in Lithuanian music and art. As a professional composer and painter, he left behind over 220 paintings and 350 musical compositions. His art showcases early examples of abstract painting and serial music in Europe. However, his work and contributions to the music world are not widely known. The publication of his music was delayed for 50 years, and several different systems of catalogu…
The Life and Artistic Activity of Pianist Victoria Boshko (1887-1977)
English Abstract: This article represents and reveals, for the first time, the life and artistic career of pianist Victoria Boshko. Born in New York to a family of Ukrainian immigrants, Boshko became a renowned pianist in the 1920s on the U.S. concert stage. A graduate of the prestigious Ethical Culture School and the Juilliard School, she epitomises a generation of musicians who came of age and launched their careers during the tumultuous years …
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