Cesar Cui was born in 1835 in Vilnius (today) Lithuania. He has french, polish and lithuanian descent and is a russian composer. As a boy in Vilnius he received piano lessons, studied Chopin's works, and began composing little pieces at fourteen years of age. Among the many musicians Cui knew in his life, Franz Liszt looms large. In the late 1880s and early 1890s several foreign musical societies honored Cui with memberships. In the last 2 years of his life, he was blind. He died at the end of the first world war.
29 июн 2024
