| Abstract [eng] |
The goal of this master thesis is to research cultural life in Vilnius in the beginning of 19th century. The society of Vilnius, which participated in the cultural life of the city, is very rare subject for researchers. Usually, their attention is focused on the concrete details and the evolution of techniques of particular art’s branch. This thesis is an attempt to take a glance to reaction of society, when it was a spectator and active participant of the events of cultural life in 19th century. The biggest part of all the events during the aforementioned period of time took place in Vilnius municipal theatre. The newest spectacles and concerts were represented in there. The theatre gave an opportunity for the society to know professional art. On the other hand, the part of art admirers had had the opportunities to see the creations of scene’s art in the other cities, such as Warsaw, Saint Petersburg or Western Europe’s capitals, as well. These persons usually had become the critics of events of scene’s art in Vilnius. They had written their articles to various editions. In these articles started to emerge not only the progress of cultural thought, but also the strife of different cultural interests and tastes. While many critics supported more classicism type of events, which was popular during the times of manor’s amateur’s theater; others celebrated the novelties of theatre, which seldom related with wave of romanticism, which spread expeditiously in the whole Europe in the beginning of 19th century. These articles strongly promoted not just perfection of scene’s art, but also the nurturance of the good taste of art admirers. The people, who work for charity, also had organized cultural events, which was seldom worshiped in the press, because it distinguished itself with all the luxury and quality, which left no one to apathetic, who came to see a beautiful sight. The musical life was dependant from charity, as well. But in that time the look to music was still just like to any other ordinal craft, with which help musician could have had paid for the living. In that sense, the level of music still wasn’t very great. There were public events, which was dedicated for all the citizens of Vilnius. The academic community of university had organized their own celebrations as well as those of government during which the local painters could have an opportunity to show their pictures to the public. It was the only chance for painters to do that, because the tradition of galleries was still absent at that time. This tradition came into fruition after success of these events and there was organized some annual galleries of local painters and graphers. The parties of private enjoyment had been one of concurrent parts of Vilnius cultural life, also. There took place not just concerts, balls, dancehalls, masquerades, but also existed specific codex of behavior and etiquette and it had been absolute to everyone, who participated there. |
