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therefore, the staff and students were invited to move to Vilnius. To this end,
examination of teachers and students was carried out. The majority passed
the examination and came to Vilnius, while those who refused to move or
did not pass stayed in Kaunas and continued in a music colege called under
composer Juozas Gruodis in 1948. In 1949, both conservatories merged into
the State Conservatoire of the Lithuanian SSR. For the work and studies in
the institution, consisting of six faculties (Piano, Orchestra, Singing, Choir
Conducting, Theory and Composition, and Theatrical Art), 84 teachers and
232 students were selected.11 The Ministry of Education appointed pianist
Jurgis Karnavičius (1912‒2001) as the Rector of the Conservatoire, and a
new period in its history began.
The Influence of Foreign Schools on the Training
of Performers, Composers, and Music Teachers in Lithuania
The academic staff in Lithuanian music schools and conservatoires were
Lithuanian teachers – graduates of colleges or conservatoires abroad as
well as foreign nationals from other countries. All of them taught in the
way they had been taught and set up schools following the examples of
foreign institutions. The table below presents a list of schools where teachers
of Lithuania studied. They made use of the curricula of those schools and
of the methodologies of teaching theoretical and practical courses they had
mastered abroad.
Table 2: Numbers of Lithuanian conservatoires’ teachers – graduates of schools abroad12
No. Cities Number of teachers Number of teachers Number of teachers Total
in Kaunas in Klaipėda in Vilnius
1. Berlin 2 5 2 9
2. Budapest ‒ 8 ‒ 8
3. Cologne ‒ 1 ‒ 1
4. Dresden ‒ ‒ 1 1
5. Krakow ‒ ‒ 1 1
6. Leipzig 6 1 1 8
7. Lodz 1 ‒ ‒ 1
8. Lviv ‒ ‒ 1 1
9. Mannheim ‒ 1 ‒ 1
11 A certificate, The Archives of Lithuanian Literature and Art, f. 410, ap. 1, b. 2, l. 45
12 The table did not include absolutely all the teachers of the Kaunas, Klaipėda, and Vil-
nius Schools, as it was not always possible to determine where and in which institu-
tions they gained music education.
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therefore, the staff and students were invited to move to Vilnius. To this end,
examination of teachers and students was carried out. The majority passed
the examination and came to Vilnius, while those who refused to move or
did not pass stayed in Kaunas and continued in a music colege called under
composer Juozas Gruodis in 1948. In 1949, both conservatories merged into
the State Conservatoire of the Lithuanian SSR. For the work and studies in
the institution, consisting of six faculties (Piano, Orchestra, Singing, Choir
Conducting, Theory and Composition, and Theatrical Art), 84 teachers and
232 students were selected.11 The Ministry of Education appointed pianist
Jurgis Karnavičius (1912‒2001) as the Rector of the Conservatoire, and a
new period in its history began.
The Influence of Foreign Schools on the Training
of Performers, Composers, and Music Teachers in Lithuania
The academic staff in Lithuanian music schools and conservatoires were
Lithuanian teachers – graduates of colleges or conservatoires abroad as
well as foreign nationals from other countries. All of them taught in the
way they had been taught and set up schools following the examples of
foreign institutions. The table below presents a list of schools where teachers
of Lithuania studied. They made use of the curricula of those schools and
of the methodologies of teaching theoretical and practical courses they had
mastered abroad.
Table 2: Numbers of Lithuanian conservatoires’ teachers – graduates of schools abroad12
No. Cities Number of teachers Number of teachers Number of teachers Total
in Kaunas in Klaipėda in Vilnius
1. Berlin 2 5 2 9
2. Budapest ‒ 8 ‒ 8
3. Cologne ‒ 1 ‒ 1
4. Dresden ‒ ‒ 1 1
5. Krakow ‒ ‒ 1 1
6. Leipzig 6 1 1 8
7. Lodz 1 ‒ ‒ 1
8. Lviv ‒ ‒ 1 1
9. Mannheim ‒ 1 ‒ 1
11 A certificate, The Archives of Lithuanian Literature and Art, f. 410, ap. 1, b. 2, l. 45
12 The table did not include absolutely all the teachers of the Kaunas, Klaipėda, and Vil-
nius Schools, as it was not always possible to determine where and in which institu-
tions they gained music education.
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