Vytautas Bacevičius (9 September 1905, in Łódź, Poland [then Russian Empire] – 15 January 1970, in New York City, United States) was a Lithuanian composer[1] of radical and modernistic leanings.
Bacevičius studied in Łódź with, among others, Kazimierz Sikorski and moved to Kaunas in Lithuania in 1926.
He was on tour in Argentina in 1939 when the Germans invaded Lithuania, rendering him an exile in America.
He moved to the United States in 1940 and lived mainly in New York, continuing to give recitals but mainly supporting himself by teaching.
[3][4] Although born in Poland, he adopted the Lithuanian form of his name (Bacevičius); he was the brother of the Polish composer Grażyna Bacewicz,[5] to whom he dedicated his Second Symphony, Sinfonia della Guerra, in 1940.