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SEPTEMBER 29TH - OCTOBER 8TH 2000 |
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Vytautas Barkauskas
Vytautas Barkauskas is one of the best-known composers in Lithuania. He was born in Kaunas in 1931 and has been living in Vilnius since 1949. His first job was that of a mathematics teacher. Today he teaches composition at the Lithuanian Music Academy in Vilnius. In the 1970's, he was one of the foremost promoters of avant-garde music in Lithuania; he never subscribed to any concrete system of composition nor to any particular trend. He created his own style by means of a natural synthesis of serial techniques and tonal principles. His music is centred on emotional expression and special sonorities as well as on mature and dramatic musical forms. Konzertstück No. 2 This piece, composed in the period 1994-1996, was commissioned by the Lithuanian National
Philharmonic. It is a typical concertante, colourful and clear in composition. The first
trumpet motif forms a Leitmotiv through the vertical and horizontal structure