Čiurlionis, Mikolajus Konstantinias

Čiurlionis (Chyurlyonis), Mikolajus Konstantinias (9–10/22–1875, Varena, southern Lithuania; 3–28/4-[10]11–1911, Pustelnik-Minski [near Warsaw]). Lithuanian composer, pianist, folklorist, and painter whose work correlating the arts of music and painting is particularly notable. His early years in the Dzūkija region of Lithuania gave him a lifelong interest in Lithuanian folk art, which later influenced both his music and painting. The son of a church organist, Čiurlionis was given a formal…