Knygotyra (Dec 2006)
LOST MUSIC MANUSCRIPTS OF MIKALOJUS KONSTANTINAS CIURLIONIS
Abstract
This article aims to discuss the main gaps and losses in the Ciurlionis music fund and to publish the list of not extant autographs of Ciurlionis music. The list-catalogue was composed afterthorough textological analysis of the present collection of manuscripts and after evaluation of the studies carried out by other scientists over the recent fifteen years. In order to achieve this goal, it was demanded to recall the formation history of the entire music fund focusing on individual hints and obvious references to other autographs not extant now. Besides, the discovery of theauthor made in March 2006 became a rather important reason for this article. In the library of Vilnius University, the author of these lines succeeded in finding a few, still unknown manuscripts and pieces of Ciurlionis music. After summarising the results of the textological studies, a conclusion was made that autographs of Ciurlionis music may still be expected to be found both in Lithuania and abroad. They may befound in the United Kingdom or Argentina, where the archive of Halina Volman should be looked for; in Poland or France, where the remainders of the archive of Bronislava Volman should be searched for; and in Lithuania, where direct descendants of Ciurlionis reside.
