Lithuania mourns leading composer

Lithuania mourns leading composer

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norman lebrecht

April 28, 2020

The former avant-gardist turned national composer Vytautas Barkauskas has died at the age of 91. A mathematician by training, he taught for 59 years at the national academy of music, influencing students with the works of Ligeti and Penderecki even as his own scores turned tonal and sedate.

The President of Lithuania Gitanas Nausėda called him the country’s most progressive force in music.

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