Three Pieces are a pair of works written by the Lithuanian painter and composer Mikalojus Konstantinas Čiurlionis. Čiurlionis, who flourished during the fin de siècle, composed in a modern symbolist idiom during his height. Out of the three works, the second, “Autumn”, has a more tonally concrete constitution than the first.

Čiurlionis was born into a family that was Lithuanian by blood, Polish by tongue. At a young age, he was shown to be a prodigy, and was able to enroll into a musical school and afterward, an artistic one. After 1905, he began to embrace his Lithuanian heritage, and in 1907, helped found the Lithuanian Union of Arts.

His paintings and compositions influenced each other to such a degree that the artist often gave his paintings musical titles, like in his “Sonata of the Sea” (1908), or his “Andante (Sonata of the Sun)” (1907). Unsurprisingly, Čiurlionis was thought to be synesthetic.

Sadly, Čiurlionis fell into depression in 1910, and succumbed to pneumonia at a mental health hospital at the age of 35. He left behind a large, though scattered, body of musical compositions. Much of it comes in the form of fragments and sketches, and those that were published were often done decades past his death.


Catalogue: Op. 17 No. 2, Vytautas Landsbergis 264
Performer: Mūza Rubackytė on piano

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