Jadvyga Čiurlionytė (1898-1992) - ethnomusicologist, doctor of art history, professor, public figure, youngest sister of M. K. Čiurlionis.

"Jadzė was a pampered little girl for many years, nowadays quite a big girl, who might want to be even smaller, but since she is developed enough, it is no longer going to work out. But it's nothing. She is very sweet, also improvises [on the piano] and even writes stories. <...> She speaks Lithuanian better than anyone else... "(From a letter to Brother Povilas, 2 November-December 1909. Čiurlionis M.K. On Music and Art. Vilnius, 1960. P. 255)

Jadvyga started to learn music from an early age. Her musical education began earlier than her general education.

In 1925, after graduating from the class of R.M. Breithaupt at the J. Stern Conservatory in Berlin, she worked as a pedagogue in Klaipėda, Kaunas, and Marijampolė. 1937-1941 - she was a research associate at the Archives of Lithuanian Folklore and the Institute of Lithuanian Studies, 1941-1951 - worked as a research associate at the Institutes of Ethnology and Lithuanian History of the Lithuanian Academy of Sciences.

She worked as a lecturer at Vilnius University during 1944-1946. Since 1945 she was lecturer at the Vilnius Conservatoire, since 1949 she was a lecturer at the Lithuanian Conservatoire, since 1969 she was a Doctor of Arts, a professor. In 1948-1958 she headed the Folk Music Cabinet, which she established at the Conservatoire.

He researched and systematised Lithuanian folk melodies. She wrote down about 4000 Lithuanian folk songs and prepared collections of them for the press, which were published in 1938, 1948 and 1955. Published articles on music criticism. She wrote educational pieces for piano and songs.

Jadvyga Čiurlionytė (Abraitienė, Borutienė)

Jadvyga Čiurlionytė (Abraitienė, Borutienė)