Hello dear friends
We are still in Lithuania and it has such a
great culture. We can really experience this while we are traveling through
Lithuania. The country is situated on a very eastern point of Europe but you
can feel some influences of the Western culture. This isn’t strange if you know
that during the Renaissance and on to later epochs, the culture of West-Europe
had the greatest influence in Lithuania. Now we can really say that some
European states enriched the Lithuanian culture and that they encouraged the
development of their nowadays modern culture. They made the country as it is
today.
The roots of their culture lies back to the
multicultural legacy of Grand Duchy of Lithuania. This was during the 14th
till the 18th century. In this time era they had a lot of influences
from just outside Lithuania. There were a lot of outstanding personalities who
each had an influence on its culture. They lived in the territory of the
present-day Poland, Belarus, Russia and Ukraine.
After surviving all these different kinds
of influences by migrant artists, the Lithuanians protected there true identity
of their traditional culture.
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The history of professional Lithuanian art and
music started in 1875 by MikalojusKonstantinas. He was a really talented artist
that combined romanticism with symbolism in his creations. After Lithuania
became independent as a state, literature, arts, theatre and music flourished.
During some dramatic events in the 20th century some scientist,
actors and author had to leave their country and immigrate to countries nearby.
Therefore a lot of creations by emigrant writers became culture heritage of
Lithuania.
We heard some music of
MikalojusKonstantinas and we enjoyed it. It is very different from the music of
today but that is normal. We can definitely appreciate such music but not for
too long.
Our next stop is Finland, let’s see what
this country holds for us.
Bye and feel free to leave a comment.
Matthias Denys
Week 10 Lithuania (culture)
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