Juzeliūnas, Julius
(*1916)
Juzeliūnas, Julius (2–7/20–1916, Čepolė, Žeimelis distr.). Lithuanian pedagogue and comp. Grad. 1948 from the Kaunas Cons., where he was a pupil of Gruodis. Did post-grad. work with Voloshinov (1952) at the L. Cons., then taught at the Vilnius Cons. Among his students were Baioras, Laurušas, Rekašius, V. and J. Juozapaitis , and Jurgaitis. His early works (pre–1960) are neo-romantic in style, whereas later comp. (such as the African Sketches, First Qt., and Third Sym.) display a more orig…