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Jeronimas Kačinskas

1907-2005 US
Composer / Conductor of Classical

Jeronimas Kačinskas (or Kacinskas; 17 April 1907 – 15 September 2005) was a Lithuanian-born American composer.Kačinskas was born in Viduklė, Lithuania (then Kovno Governorate, Russian Empire), to the family of a church organist. He studied music at the National Conservatory of Lithuania in Klaipėda and at the Prague Conservatory. He later taught at the State Conservatory in Vilnius. His Nonet was premiered in London in 1938, and he married Elena Šlevaitė in 1941. In 1944, they escaped from Lithuania and travelled through Poland into Germany, where they were finally rescued by American troops.