Juozas Tallat-Kelpša, Lithuanian composer (1889-1949)

I have just uploaded his Overture on Themes from Lithuanian Folk Songs in the downloads section. Here's some biographical info from the three wikipedia pages available (Lithuanian, Russian, Armenian, using google translate...):

Juozas Tallat-Kelpša (1889. 1 January. Kalnujų, Raseinių Parish - 1949. 5 February. Vilnius) - Lithuanian professional opera theater organizer, opera conductor, composer, educator, musician public figure.

His Tatar ancestors were nobles, twinned with the Lithuanians. 1900. completed Ylakiai folk school, he studied Palanga progymnasium, maturity certificate received in St. Petersburg (Russia). Music teacher was his father's organist. Later he studied organ Rokiškis School with Rudolf Lyman.

1905-1907. He lived in Vilnius, where at the Russian Music Society school learned to play the cello. A teacher in primary school, organist of St. Nicholas church, led by the friendly Lithuanian Society choir - online "Kanklių" choir, led 70-80 participants team, who organized concerts-west, sang in the church. 1907. Mr Landsbergis Žemkalnis eglė queen wrote the music and the chorus of the whole work is built.

1907-1916 m. He lived in St. Petersburg: Conservatory studied composition theory with A. Liadov, M. Steinberg and J. Vitols. Led by Lithuanian and Belarusian choirs, conducted operettas performances, he participated in drama performances, accompanied soloists, wrote music scene works. Summer holiday in Lithuania took down folk songs, organized choirs. 1909. January. on holiday in Vilnius built Miko Petrauskas opera Birute. In the same year, the Lithuanian Science Society Congress in Vilnius chosen songs and melodies Committee members.

1910. and 1914-1916 m. St. worked. Catherine's boys high school singing and music teacher. 1910. February. with reinforced Petersburg Lithuanian choir participated in the ethnographic fourteen nations concert. 1912. Čiurlionis death anniversary concert, among other works were carried out and MKČiurlionis five harmonized Lithuanian folk songs.

1916. he was called to military service, serving in various Russian cities of Mogilev, Oriole, Kursk, Voronezh. 1918. He settled in Vilnius, which brought together Lithuanian mixed choir, taught music Lithuanian gymnasium, organized concerts. Bolsheviks came to power, the People's Commissariat of Education was elected member of the college of music, he took care of the Lithuanian Opera and musical education organization, went to Moscow to get acquainted with the work of music schools.

In 1919-1920. deepened their theoretical knowledge with Prof.. Mr Suman Berlin State Art Academy. Poland occupied Vilnius in 1920. settled in Kaunas. He led by Lithuanian artists association music section. 1920. Juozas Naujalio nationalized appointed music director of the school. 1920-1923 m. led Kaunas Music School class opera and symphony orchestra.

He contributed to the Opera vaidyklos the establishment of its first conductor. 1920. 31 December. He conducted the first theater built in performance - Giuseppe Verdi's opera "La Traviata." 1923. State Theatre Director, 1920-1944 m. chief. conductor.

1925. Summer went to Czechoslovakia and Austria for a training in the field of opera conducting. 1926. elected to the Lithuanian Ministry of Education Arts Council. Since 1933. Lithuanian Philharmonic Society Artistic Board. 1933-1944 m. He led Kaunas Conservatory class opera and symphony orchestra. 1935. was sent to Belgium to try Kaunas Vytautas the Great War Museum Tower made the bells and downloading them to Lithuania.

Soviet period
1940. July. People's Seimas election, we wrote the first propaganda content of the work - the choral songs and solo piano. 1944. Kaunas State Drama Theatre and Kaunas Conservatory Director. In 1944-1949. SSR State Opera and Ballet Theatre chief conductor. 1945. Honored Art Worker, 1948. Stalin Prize.

1948-1949 m. Vilnius Conservatory opera preparation department head and head of the opera studio. 1948. Professor. His efforts built in Tchaikovsky's opera "Eugene Onegin." 1948-1949 m. The first Lithuanian Composers' Union, Chairman of the Board. He died in 1949. 5 February. Conductor radio his "Cantata about Stalin." Buried Rasu cemetery.

J. Tallat-Kelpša creative legacy - it solo and choral songs "Cantata about Stalin" (1947 m.), Symphonic and chamber works. His song "Čiuta, Gale field away" and "Art Song" sounded in the US and Canadian Lithuanian song festivals, could not do without them and Lithuanian choirs, song festivals. Music written for Lithuanian performances in Vilnius, Kaunas and St. Petersburg, did not survive to the present day.

Juozas Tallat-Kelpsa (Anta Juozas Tallat Kelpsa, lit. Juozas Tallat-Kelpša, Joseph Antonovich Tallat Kelpsha;. 1888 / 1889-1949) - Soviet and Lithuanian composer, conductor, teacher and public figure in music. Honored Worker of the Lithuanian SSR (1945). Winner of the Stalin Prize of the first degree (1948).

Yu Tallat Kelpsa born December 20, 1888 (January 1, 1889) in the village Kyalnuyay (now Lithuania). In 1916 he graduated from the Petrograd Conservatory (teachers, AK Liadov, MO Steinberg, J. Vitol). In 1918, a member of the College of Music at the People's Commissariat of Education of Lithuania. It was onim founder (in 1920) and the permanent conductor of the Opera House in Kaunas (1948 LitATOB in Vilnius). Since 1920 he taught at the Kaunas College of Music (from 1933 - in Kaunas Conservatory). Since 1948, professor, directed the opera studio. Chairman of the Union of Composers of the Lithuanian SSR in 1948. Member of the Union of Soviet Composers. He has recorded over 700 folk songs of Lithuanian and Belarusian.

Tallat Kelpsha died February 5, 1949 in Vilnius.

Creative output:
Opera "Daughter of the elders" (1938) and others
"Cantata about Stalin" (1947)
Symphonic play "Sad Song" (1931)
March "Do not give up!" (1940)
Suite for Woodwind Quartet on the theme of folk songs (1946)
Overture on Themes of Lithuanian folk songs (1945)
Songs, choruses, instrumental compositions, music to drama performances

Awards
Stalin Prize of the first degree (1948) - for the "Cantata about Stalin" (1947)
Honored Worker of the Lithuanian SSR (1945)

Tallat-Kyalpsha (Tallat-Kelpsha) Juozas Antano (1888 / 1889-1949), a Lithuanian composer, conductor, pedagogue. Lithuanian SSR Honoured Worker of Arts (1945). In 1916 he graduated from the Petrograd Conservatory (studied Glazunov, Steinberg, Vitoli about). Was founded in 1920 in Kaunas Opera Theater (now the Lithuanian Opera and Ballet Theatre) and the organizers of the conductor, Kaunas Music School (1933 Conservatoire) organizer and teacher (since 1948 a professor). Was president of the Lithuanian Soviet Socialist Republic of the Union of Composers (1948). Recorded over 700 folk songs (Lithuanian and Byelorussian), most of them developed for choir, voice and piano. Author of "eldest daughter" of the Opera (1938), orchestral, chamber and vocal works, dramatic performances of music. Received the USSR State Prize (1948).