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Religious Music and Spirituality in Lithuania
Jūratė Landsbergytė (2006)
This book seeks for understanding what losses each nation can suffer depending on its historic
fate and its capability or inability to change it. This is a review not only on Lithuanian church
music, but also some reflections about the importance of the Catholic Church for the culture,
its influence upon the development of the Lithuanian spirit, as well as the mentality and the
Spirituality of the Lithuanian people.
The text of this book is in Lithuanian and in German.
Edition: BALTIJOS KOPIJA
ISBN: 9789955568399
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Organ music in Lithuania XX century
Jūratė Landsbergytė (2008)
This book is aimed at revealing the creativity of Lithuanian organ music under changing
historical conditions, at showing traditions and imminent changes. Particular attention is
drawn to the factors inducing innovation. This is determined both by the road of the state of
Lithuania and the great political turning-point in the 20th century that caused not only damage
to organ culture but also gave stimulus to open its spirituality resources.
The book contains a summary in English.
Edition: KRONTA
ISBN: 9789955734666
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The Lithuanian Organ Art: from Baroque to Classicism
Girėnas Povilionis (2009)
The organ catalogue “The Lithuanian Organ Art: from Baroque to Classicism” is the first
academic study of the subject of the history of the art of organ building in the Grand Duchy of
Lithuania. The catalogue includes Lithuanian Baroque and Classicist organs built before the
mid-nineteenth century when a period of romantic instruments began. The geographical area
of the organs described in this volume crosses the present-day borders of Lithuania.
The book contains a summary in English.
Edition: SAVASTIS
ISBN: 9789986420781
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Lithuanian Organs
Rimantas Gučas (2009)
In this catalogue, there is valuable and unique information about 425 organs in Lithuania. The
data is arranged as follows: place, name of the church, date or period, name of the organ
builder, specification, couplers, action type, windchest, console, bellows, façade, historical
data, sources, and bibliography. Here one can find information about organs which no longer
exist - they have been burned or have been destroyed together with the churches.
Summaries in English and German are given in the catalogue.
Edition: PETRO OFSETAS
ISBN: 9786094200007
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The Organ and Organists of St. John the Baptist Church in Ramygala
Mantas Masiokas (2010)
St. John the Baptist Church in Ramygala is a parish of the Diocese of Panevėžys. The author of
this book narrates a history of Ramygala Church’s organ. The instrument was built in 1923 by
famous Lithuanian master Martynas Masalskis. The main goal of this book is according to the
collected factual and documentary material to commemorate all organists who worked in St.
John the Baptist Church in Ramygala.
The book contains a summary in English.
Edition: ARG OFSETAS
ISBN: 9789955741299