10 September (22 September, old style) 1875

Born in Varėna, a small town in the south of Lithuania, into the family of the church organist Konstantinas Čiurlionis and Adelė Marija Magdalena Radmanaitė-Čiurlionienė, Mikalojus Konstantinas was the eldest of nine children.

1876 – 1877

The family lived in Ratnyčia.

1878

The Čiurlionis family moved to Druskininkai.

1885

Čiurlionis completed the elementary school in Druskininkai. Taught by his father, he played the piano and organ very well. The doctor Jozef Markiewicz, a close friend of the family, recommended him to Michal Oginski, who had an orchestral school in Plungė.

Written by Nijolė Adomavičienė

Translated by Sonata Zubovienė

Birth of M. K. Čiurlionis

Birth of M. K. Čiurlionis

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