Mikolajus Ciurlionis
1875-1911 Lithuanian
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Lithuanian painter and composer. He studied with Noskowski in Warsaw and with Jadassohn and Reinecke at the Leipzig Conservatory (1901). His music makes use of invented modes, colourful harmony and autonomous rhythms; he wrote much for the piano as well as orchestral and chamber music. He was also famous as a painter.
ID: 22373 Rex (mk19) 1909
Tempera on cardboard,72.2 x 63 cm
Ciurlionis Museum,Kaunas
