The grave of the priest Teodoras Brazys, Kaišiadorys

T. Brazio g. 6, Kaišiadorys (katedros šventoriuje)

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Teodoras Brazys was not only a priest but also an organist, choir conductor, educator, musicologist, and composer. T. Brazys was born in the Baron Bistramas Manor in Memelhof near Bauska, Latvia, in1870. In 1896-1900, he studied at the Vilnius Priest Seminary. Later, he studied at the Regensburg Higher Ecclesiastical Music School in Germany; he became a prelate in 1928. Since 1923, he was a professor at the seminary, and from 1924, he was an associate professor at the Faculty of Theology – Philosophy at the University of Lithuania, lecturer in ecclesiastical music and music history, the head of the university and priest seminary and church choirs. The sensitive heart of the priest destined to obtain the great sounds of love between the church and the homeland. For the Latin text, he wrote four masses and two evensongs, an Easter Dawn, and many responsorial psalms. He took texts from Lithuanian hymns for the Mass, and even called the Mass itself giving them the names of Lithuanian hymns: “Fall down on your knees”, “Jesus, come to me”, “Hello, Dawn, the bright star”. T. Brazys died in Munich while returning from a vacation in Italy. The priest of the singing soul is buried in the churchyard of the Kaišiadorys Transfiguration Cathedral. The blessed Teofilius Matulionis rests in the crypt next to the cathedral.

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