Born 18 October 1932. 1932-1932 in Kaunas, Lithuania.
Graduated from secondary and J. Gruodis music schools in his native city. In 1955 he graduated from the State Conservatoire in Vilnius (now the Lithuanian Theatre and Music Academy). In 1952, while still a student, he took up pedagogical work and continued it until 1990.
He taught piano at the M.K. Čiurlionis Music School, the State Conservatoire, its Klaipėda faculties, the Vilnius
Pedagogical Institute. From 1974 he taught music history at the State Conservatoire. 1969 m.
In 1969, he defended his dissertation "The Composer's Work of M. K. Čiurlionis" at the Lithuanian Academy of Sciences. From 1978 to 1990 he worked as a professor at the Lithuanian Academy of Music. In 1994 he defended his habilitated doctoral dissertation.
V. Landsbergis has published over 140 books, in which he initially focused mainly on the works of M. K. Čiurlionis, and in later years on other cultural phenomena, Lithuanian history, and Lithuanian and international political issues. He edited and published all of Čiurlionis' piano works. He is also a publicist, a public figure, a former long-time member of the Board and Secretariat of the Lithuanian Composers' Union, Chairman of the Čiurlionis Society, Honorary Chairman of the Lithuanian Chess Federation and Honorary President of the Lithuanian Aero Club. From 1995 to 2008, Mr Landsbergis was the Chairman of the Council of the International M.K. Čiurlionis Organists and Pianists Competition. He was active in fiction (first book in 1991, 15 in total). Member of the Lithuanian Composers' and Lithuanian Writers' Union.
In 1988 Vytautas Landsbergis was elected to the Lithuanian Sąjūdis Steering Group, and at the Sąjūdis Founding Congress he was elected to the Sąjūdis Seimas and the Seimas Council. On 1 May 1993, when the Lithuanian Conservative Party - Homeland Union was founded, he was elected its Chairman. In 1995, 1998 and 2000 he was re-elected and held this position until 2003. Since 2003 he has been a member of the Presidium of the Homeland Union, and from 2003 to 2013 he was the Chairman of the Party Policy Committee of the Homeland Union.
In 1989, the people of Panevėžys elected Landsbergis as a People's Deputy of the USSR, and in 1990 as a People's Deputy of the Republic of Lithuania.
Deputy of the Supreme Soviet of the Republic of Lithuania. In 1990, Vytautas Landsbergis was elected to the Lithuanian
He chaired a session of the parliament, which voted that day and proclaimed the
independence of the Republic of Lithuania; under the Provisional Constitution, he became the supreme
the highest official of the state - that is, the head of state.
He was one of the leaders of the Council of the Baltic States in 1990-1992 and of the Republic of Lithuania in 1990-1991
Chairman of the Commission for the Drafting of the Outline of the Constitution of the Baltic States. In 1990-1991, Mr Landsbergis was the Chairman of the State
Chairman of the State Delegation for Negotiations with the USSR. Under his leadership, Lithuania resisted the blockade of the USSR and armed
violence and achieved international recognition of its restored independence (membership in the UN and other intergovernmental organisations).
The 1992 agreement with Russia to withdraw its independence from the Russian Federation within one year, and to join the
The EU's accession to the European Union in one year. In the October-November 1992 elections Vytautas Landsbergis was elected a member of the Seimas of the Republic of Lithuania, and since then he has acted as Leader of the Opposition in the Seimas, by a vote of the joint opposition - Homeland Santaros. He was also a member of the Lithuanian delegation to the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe and the Lithuanian delegation to the Baltic Assembly.
In 1996, he was elected Member of the Seimas for the Kaunas Rural District and Speaker of the Seimas of the Republic of Lithuania.
He was elected to the Lithuanian Parliament for the fourth time in the 2000 elections and served again in the Seimas until 2004.
He served as a member of the Parliamentary Delegations to the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe and the Baltic Assembly.
Vytautas Landsbergis was also a Member of the European Parliament as an Observer in 2003-2004 and a Member of the European Parliament in 2004-2014.
2004-2004, as a full Member of the European Parliament. Mr Landsbergis was a member of the Group of the European People's Party (Christian Democrats) in the European Parliament, a member of its Bureau, a member of the Committee on Foreign Affairs and of the Subcommittee on Security and Defence, a member of the Committee on Legal Affairs, and Vice-President of the Delegation of the European Parliament to the South Caucasus.
Since autumn 2014, member of the Presidium of the Homeland Union of Lithuanian Christian Democrats, acting as
He is a member of the leadership of the International Forum of Parliamentary Democracies.