Įsisąmonintos vertybės – sėkmingo kūrybinio gyvenimo laidas. Alfonsas Mikulskis – Panevėžyje pamirštas muzikas

ENThis article aims to present the importance of realized values to a successful creative life, its meaning and happiness. The object of investigation is active and creative life and work in Lithuania of musician Alfonsas Mikulskis, who emigrated at the end of the war and later, actively created music. The cellist, conductor, composer and teacher Alfonsas Mikulskis was born on 14 October, 1909 in Deglėnai, Pasvalys County. He graduated from Joniškėlis Progymnasium. From 1926 to 1930 he studied cello, choir conducting, pedagogy at the music school in Klaipėda, and later continued his studies at Kaunas Conservatory. A. Mikulskis was an enthusiastic organizer of art collectives. He brought together a choir of Riflemen's team in Klaipėda, Panevėžys and Vilnius, Kaunas men's choir "Nemunas", founded M. K. Čiurlionis ensemble. In 1944 A. Mikulskis and O. Mikulskienė with a group of members of the ensemble moved to the West, settled in Cleveland (USA), where continued public cultural and musical work. A. Mikulskis is also known as a composer. He created 660 different works: songs for choirs, folk dancing, compositions for symphony orchestra, chants, national Mass and others. He died on 14 October, 1983 in Cleveland (USA). On 2 July, 1994 his remains were reburied in the Rasų cemetery. A. Mikulskis felt himself as a happy man. His life was an example how realized values helped to overcome various hardships of life, political change in prewar Lithuania and during World War II, and living in exile conditions.