Elena Stanekaite Laumenskienė (16 July 1880 – 24 March 1960)[1][2] was a Lithuanian composer, music educator, and pianist who published some music under the name Elena Stanekaite-Laumyanskene.[3][4] Also Stanek, Moráuskienė, by marriages.[5]
Laumyanskene was born in Radviliškis. She graduated from the Moscow Conservatory in 1907, where her teachers included Alexander Ilyinsky, Konstantin Igumnov,[6] and Alexander Scriabin.[3] She married Laumenskis.[7]
Laumenskienė taught piano in Vilnius and Moscow. She founded the Lithuanian National Conservatory[8] in Kaunas in 1930, managing it for the next decade. In 1940, she began teaching at the Vilnius Conservatory. During this time, she presented piano recitals in Kaunas, Moscow, and Vilnius. Her compositions were recorded commercially by Melodija (MELOD D 009587/8).[3] She died in Vilnius.[citation needed]
Works
editLaumenskienė's compositions included:
Chamber
edit- Mazurka (violin and piano)[3]
- Memories (violin and piano)[3]
- Romance (violin and piano)[3]
- Tarantella (violin and piano)[3]
Piano
edit- more than 200 works (preludes, miniatures, children’s pieces)[9]
Vocal
editReferences
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- ^ Greene, Frank (1985). Composers on Record: An Index to Biographical Information on 14,000 Composers Whose Music Has Been Recorded. Scarecrow Press. ISBN 978-0-8108-1816-3.
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j k Cohen, Aaron I. (1987). International Encyclopedia of Women Composers. Books & Music (USA). ISBN 978-0-9617485-1-7.
- ^ Hixon, Donald L. (1993). Women in music : an encyclopedic biobibliography. Don A. Hennessee (2nd ed.). Metuchen, N.J.: Scarecrow Press. ISBN 0-8108-2769-7. OCLC 28889156.
- ^ Danguolė Medišauskienė, Elena Laumenskienė, Universal Lithuanian Encyclopedia
- ^ "RILM Music Encyclopedias". rme.rilm.org. Retrieved 2021-12-24.
- ^ "KŪRĖJAS IR ŽMOGUS". www.prodeoetpatria.lt. Archived from the original on 2014-06-21. Retrieved 2021-12-24.
- ^ Dolzhanskiĭ, Aleksandr Naumovich (1957). Советские композиторы: краткий биографический справочник (in Russian). Советский композитор. p. 546.
- ^ "Russian Piano Music Vol. 4 R - U - PDF Free Download". qdoc.tips. Retrieved 2021-12-24.