Famous people of Lithuania (topic)
Now I want to talk about famous Lithuanian people.
First about famous Lithuanian painter and musician Mikalojus Konstantinas Chiurlionis. He was born in 1875, in Dzookija. He studied in Warsaw, in Leipzig. He learned playing piano, painting. He often visited foreign countries, meets a lot of famous people.
Chiurlionis left many musical creations. He wrote chorale songs, sonatas, symphonies, creations for the piano and the organ. Chiurlionis was the man, who started writing Lithuanian symphonic music. His symphonic poems “Sea” and “Forest” are well known and liked all over the world, Chiurlionis created more than 300 pictures. The most of them are widely known. He created cycles of paintings “Funeral symphony” “Zodiac” ” Fairy-tale”. The most beautiful painting by Chiurlionis is “Kings.”
He organises the first exhibition art in 1906 in Vilnius.
He died, when he was 35. Although he lived not long, he made a lot in his life and left many famous creations for us.
Another two man famous not only in Lithuania, I think are Steponas Darius and Stasys Girenas. Both they were born in Lithuania, but migrated to The USA. They are famous, that they flied non-stop from America to Europe in June of 1933. Darius and Girenas bought aeroplane in USA. It was the most popular type of aeroplanes. Some changes were made in plane and the rebuild aeroplane was called Lituanica.
On July 15, 1993 the Lituanica took-off. Their goal was Kaunas. But… they didn’t reached finish. Their plane falls in Germans forests. There are many versions of their fall. One historic says, that disaster occurred due the difficult weather and some defects in engine. Others say, that plane has beet shouted by Germans.
Now the parts of Lithuanica are at War museum in Kaunas.
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