Juozas Naujalis

Aliases: Iozef Nowialis

Life

Born: 9.04.1869 in Raudondvaris (Lithuania)

Died: 9.09.1934 in Kaunas (Lithuania)

Biography More known under name: Joseph Nowialis. Lithuanian composer and organist. Born in Raudondvaris (near from Kaunas). Studied in Warsaw at Master J. Sliwinski and in Ratisbon at F.X. Haberl. In 1898 founded the Lithuanian Society of Singers "Daina" and was one of the founder of St. Gregor's Society of Lithuanian Organists in Kaunas. Was excellent Master and Rector of his founded School of Organists (1913) and Music School (1919) in Kaunas. Was the Conductor of Cathedral Choir in Kaunas and from 1933 was the Professor and Conductor of Organmusic in the Conservatory of Kaunas. Composed Masses, Motets, Organ works... Among his works is known: Nowialis, Joseph, Missa in honorem S. Casimiri ad IV voces aequalis cum organo Part. u. St., Regensburg, Pustet; Nowialis, Joseph, Op. 5. Missa in honorem Beatae Mariae Virginis sub titulo Auxilium Christianorum ad duas voces aequales comitante organo, Part. u. St., Düsseldorf, Schwann; Nowialis, Joseph, Tres Cantus Sacri in Parasceve, op.7., Warsaw, 1.05.1901; Nowialis, Joseph, In monte Oliveti. Died in Kaunas.

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