Stasys Šimkus

Stasys Šimkus (23 January 1887, Motiškiai, now in Jurbarkas district municipality, Russian Empire – 15 October 1943, Kaunas, Reichskommissariat Ostland) was a Lithuanian composer.

[1][2][3] Šimkus studied in Vilnius and Warsaw and later became the pupil of Anatoly Konstantinovich Lyadov, Jāzeps Vītols, and Maximilian Steinberg.

A national Romantic, Šimkus helped resurrect the Lithuanian cultural organization Daina in 1916.

Šimkus composed several operas, a cantata, a symphonic poem, a piano suite, a ballade, choral works, lieder, and church music.

His son Algis Šimkus also became a renowned conductor but in Canada instead of Jamaica , pianist, and composer.