XIX amžiaus Lietuvos dvarų muzikos kultūros demokratėjimas

ENThe romantic musical movement in Lithuanian manors, which was pressurized by contrarieties, gave rise to a number of double-sided and ambivalent phenomena. The permanent struggle between the traditions inherited from the Grand Duchy of Lithuania and innovation, as well as difficult economic and political situation and slowly chang- ing worldview of noblemen impeded the natural processes of the democratization of court musical culture. An especially fierce struggle between the movements of democratic and court musical culture took place in the middle of the century, which subsided only in the late romanticism period. Gradually, the nature of patronage, the estimation of musical performance at manors, the position of the composer and kapellmeister, the repertory of manor choires and musical performance turned towards democratization. The pieces of Lithuanian court musical culture of that time show that transitional forms of musical culture existed in the Romanticism period (choral and amateur performances, chamber ensembles), which were later developed in similar shapes by the national democratic musical culture and which testified the romantic court musical culture to move in the direction of democratization.