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.Vladas Švedas (1934-2012) started his music education in the Panev?žys gymnasium for boys. Here he performed in the wind orchestra and, encouraged by the composer Antanas Belazaras, composed his first compositions. In 1953-58 he studied under Prof. Jadvyga ?iurlionyte in the Folk Music Department at the Lithuanian State Conservatoire (currently Lithuanian Academy of Music). In 1965 he earned a degree in composition from the same school where he studied under Prof. Julius Juzeli?nas.
In 1958-67 Vladas Švedas taught music theory at the Panev?žys High School of Music (currently Panev?žys Conservatoire), and in 1967-75 at the Kaunas J. Gruodis High School of Music (currently Kaunas Conservatoire), where he also served as the Head of Music Theory Department. In 1976-82 he was the chief of the Kaunas Artists' House, and in 1982-85 worked as a director of M. and K. Petrauskas Memorial Museum in Kaunas. Vladas Švedas has devoted much of his time and energy to music education: organised cycles of lectures-concerts in Vilnius, Kaunas and smaller towns of Lithuania, edited symphonic and choral works of Lithuanian classical composers.
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