Konstantin Galkovsky

Konstantin Galkovsky, also known as Kostantinas Galkauskas, was a Soviet Lithuanian musician: a composer, conductor, and music teacher. He was born on June 16, 1875, in Vilna. He became the author of operas, a ballet for children, musical comedies, works for symphony orchestra, as well as choruses and music for dramatic performances.

In 1902 he arrived in St. Petersburg and initially studied singing at the St. Petersburg Conservatory in the class of Professor S. I. Gabel. In 1908 he graduated from the conservatory in composition, having studied with Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov, Alexander Glazunov, and Anatoly Lyadov.

In 1909 he organized a symphony orchestra in Vilna and performed with it as a conductor. He also taught theoretical subjects at the music school of the Vilna branch of the Imperial Russian Musical Society, where his students included the young Jascha Heifetz.

After the October Revolution, in 1919, he took part in the work of the music collegium under the People's Commissariat of Education of the Provisional Revolutionary Government of Lithuania.

He was also active as a teacher and, from 1945, taught at the Vilnius Conservatory, becoming a professor there in 1947. In 1955 he was named People's Artist of the Lithuanian SSR.

Galkovsky died on February 20, 1963, in Vilnius. He was buried at Antakalnis Cemetery. Materials about him are preserved in the Museum of the History of the St. Petersburg Conservatory, and a memorial plaque to him was installed in Vilnius.

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