EN[...] In the chapter Can one run away from romanticism? Music performance and music making in Lithuanian performers, Donatas Katkus considers paradoxical controversies in the coexistence of music performance and new music in Soviet-era Lithuania. The political events of the mid-twentieth century led to huge losses in Lithuanian performance art. However, in the Soviet era, the tensios between new music creators and peformers were largely predetermined by the fundamental dogmas and values of the contemporary performance art as well as centuries-old principles of interpretation, especially deep-rooted in Romanticism, and therefore, the rules and norms predominating in the culture of performance art are difficult to reconcile with the imperatives of modernization. [...].