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The life of Fausto Latenas ended abruptly on November 3. According to his loved ones, the composer’s heart stopped.
All those who wanted to say goodbye to the famous creator could stay at the House of the Union of Composers, and at noon on November 6, the remains of F. Latėnas were transferred to the Antakalnis cemetery.
Funeral of the composer Faustas Latėnas / Paulius Peleckis / “PEOPLE’s Photo”
Relatives asked to pay tribute to the deceased with modesty: with a ring of flowers, he squatted to protect himself. “Faced with a pandemic, we will definitely understand if you say goodbye from a distance, with thoughts, from a distance. Let’s protect each other, “Elžbieta Latėnaitė wrote on the social network.
Faustas Latėnas and his wife, the art critic Ramute Rachlevičiūtė, raised two daughters and a son, who lost them in 2014.
The composer’s brother, Algirdas Latėnas, is a recognized actor and director in the country.
Faustas Latėnas graduated from Giedrius Kuprevičius’s composition class from the Kaunas J.Gruodis Higher School of Music in 1975, and in 1980 – from the Lithuanian Academy of Music prof. Composition class by Eduard Balsis.
After graduating, he connected his destiny and his music with the theater for a long time: he worked as a director of the Vilnius Theater Lėlė; Head of the musical part of the Vilnius Small Theater and artistic director, later director of the Lithuanian State Academic Dramatic Theater. 1999-2000 was director of the National Drama Theater, 2000-2004. together with the director Rimas Tuminas, he directed the Little Theater of Vilnius. In 2011, he was appointed Cultural Attaché of Lithuania in Russia.
Faustas Latėnas / photo “PEOPLE Photo”.
In Memory
Faustus Latėnas is in mourning for the small Vilnius state theater. The composer was one of the founders of this theater. “The harmonious and talented trio disintegrated … When the composer Faust Latėnas went to create the heavenly music theater, he fell silent in the world of the stage created by the director Rimas Tuminas and the set designer Adam Jacovskis … Relax in peace, dear composer … “community.
Recently, F. Latėnas worked with R. Tumin at the Vachtangov Theater in Moscow.
According to the director, he was “hooked” by the music of F. Latėnas for a children’s performance, but what attracted him most was not the musical talent of the composer, which was revealed a little later, but the enthusiasm for being part of the theater .
“We lived in a dream, we talked about the same thing. I’m sure he would make a very good and talented director. He also continued to communicate quietly with the actors, to tell, advise, joke about what to do on one stage or another, as it seemed to him. He advised me (…) the authors not only became him on the music, I on the stage, but we became the authors of all our performances together, I will no longer separate who we did, ”said R. Tumin.
Both he and other colleagues agree that their work was permeated with sadness, pain.
“He was a composer of sadness and hope. Such eternal variations of the Requiem: the loss of life, the people – the parents, the son was very shocked, he could not recover from the death of his son, now he went to him, they met ”, said the composer’s friend.
Rimas Tuminas y Faustas Latėnas / Photo by Lukas Balandus / Žmonės.lt
Faustas Latėnas has composed music for more than 200 performances, more than 40 documentaries and feature films, television productions. He is also a member of the orchestra, solo instruments, voice, choir, etc. Author. F. Latėnas’ work exists outside the theater, but it is imbued with an all-encompassing theatrical sense. As Rimas Tuminas has said, he always carried the music with him, she was born before the performance itself …
The composer won the Lithuanian National Prize for Art and Culture, St. Christopher Prize, he has been awarded numerous Lithuanian and international original music competitions and festivals.
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