Mikas Petrauskas (1873–1937) was a Lithuanian composer and choirmaster best known as the author of the first Lithuanian opera Birutė (1906). He was an elder brother of the singer Kipras Petrauskas.
Petrauskas learned to play church organ from his father and began working as an organist at the age of 15. He worked in Labanoras, Obeliai, and Hierviaty [be] before enrolling at the Saint Petersburg Conservatory in 1901. As a student, he wrote and staged the first Lithuanian operettas. In 1905, he moved to Vilnius where he became leader of the choir of Kanklės of Vilnius Society and staged his opera Birutė in 1906. Trouble with the Tsarist police forced him to leave the Russian Empire first for Switzerland and then for the United States. There he organized various concerts and theater performances, opened a music school, and established and led choirs and other performing groups among Lithuanian Americans. He organized and led Birutė choir in Chicago and Gabija choir in Boston. Both choirs continued to perform until 1950s. His music school operated from 1910 to 1924 and had up to 130 students per year. By his own estimate, during the first 17 years in the United States, he taught music and singing to some 4,000 people.[1] He returned to Lithuania in 1930 and died in 1937.
Petrauskas works include two operas, 19 operettas, and about 200 songs.
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MikasPetrauskas (1873–1937) was a Lithuanian composer and choirmaster best known as the author of the first Lithuanian opera Birutė (1906). He was an...
Ignalina MikasPetrauskas Music School is a music school in Ignalina, Lithuania. The school is taught in Lithuanian. It is located on Atgimimo Street,...
Kipras Petrauskas with his brother MikasPetrauskas in the 1930s Petrauskas performing the Teuton role Memorial plaque to brothers Kipras and Mikas Petrauskas...
century, Vilnius was the hometown of Mikalojus Konstantinas Čiurlionis, MikasPetrauskas, Juozas Tallat-Kelpša. Musicians of late 20th and early 21st centuries...
performed in Vilnius. The first national opera Birutė by composer MikasPetrauskas (1873-1937), libretto - Gabrielius Landsbergis-Žemkalnis (1852-1916)...
Kudaba Gymnasium Ignalina school-kindergarten "Šaltinėlis" Ignalina MikasPetrauskas music school Jonas Kindurys (b. 1946), architect, diplomat Arūnas Bubnys...
before his death in 1899. The song was performed by a choir led by MikasPetrauskas, the day before the Great Seimas of Vilnius. The Saint Petersburg Soviet...
founded in Vilnius. The first Lithuanian opera was Birutė (1906) by MikasPetrauskas. Subsequent highlights included Antanas Račiūnas' (Trys talismanai...
experience." Several Janonis' poems were turned into songs by composers MikasPetrauskas, Stasys Šimkus, Juozas Gruodis, Nikodemas Martinonis, Jonas Dambrauskas...
Conrad, Juozas Tumas-Vaižgantas, Žemaitė, Michał Bałucki, operetta by MikasPetrauskas, dramas by Aleksandras Fromas-Gužutis and Juliusz Słowacki, and other...
costumes. Performers during these evenings included brothers Kipras and MikasPetrauskas, Stasys Šimkus, Juozas Tallat-Kelpša who later became professional...
It was reworked into operetta Girių karalius (King of Forests) by MikasPetrauskas in 1919. The play was published as a separate booklet in 1914 and 1928...
an operetta by MikasPetrauskas, performed plays by Sofija Kymantaitė-Čiurlionienė, organized a concert by Mikas and Kipras Petrauskas and Antanas Sodeika [lt]...
chairman in 1910. Balutis also joined the Birutė choir established by MikasPetrauskas. In March 1912, he became deputy editor of the Lithuanian weekly Lietuva [lt]...
society staged operettas Užburtas kunigaikštis (Bewitched Duke) by MikasPetrauskas in 1922 and The Geisha by Sidney Jones in 1924. Many theater performers...
Jews find a safe hiding place. He saved some 120 Jewish children. Kipras Petrauskas (1999), operatic tenor and his wife Elena Žalinkevičaitė-Petrauskienė...
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