Modernism as Europeanism in Lithuanian music. Algirdas Martinaitis case

ENLithuanian composers in their works emphasize an idea of Europeanism or European integration from various points of view. Algirdas Martinaitis takes a leading role with series of his works, provoking the question of degraded concept of Europeanism and modernism. Martinaitis’s “European” works began with farewells to romanticism known as Franz Schubert’s adoration memory of golden ages and “waiting for barbarians”, and grew into Euro-criticism and irony, monitoring historical turns of European culture, their infantilism and crises. However national psyche and European mentality for Martinaitis is related to each other through structure, architecture and archetypes. Therefore in his series of works this type of discourse is declared, as a dialogue of Lithuania with Europe, with critically oppositioned poetics, which brings in even more levels of art and politics.