He got his first knowledge of music from his father, the organist Tomas Sasnauskas. Since 1880 started learning to play the organ with Lucidas (Ludvikas) Risauskas, who was already famous at that time, the organist of the Naumieści area. 1883-1885 was an independent organist in the Gražiški church, 1885–1887. Vilkaviškis Cathedral. After going to Kaunas, he learned to play the organ with the organist of the Kaunas Archcathedral Basilica, Juozas Kalvaitis, and worked as a clerk in the Kaunas railway post office for several years. 1890-1892 organist in Daugavpils.1892-1898 at the St. Petersburg Conservatory under Prof. Stanislav Gabel and Antonio Cotogni studied singing. In Petersburg, he engaged in active musical activities: 1895-1909. taught by St. Kotryna boys' and girls' high schools, led the mixed choir of the Philanthropic Society, the women's choir of the Polish Lute Society and church boys' choirs. He sang in an opera troupe he founded and in a male vocal quartet. He participated in the work of collecting songs of the Lithuanian Science Society, in the activities of the Lithuanian Art Society, took care of the terminology of Lithuanian music, concert repertoire. For that purpose, periodical "Lithuanian Music Notebooks" were published in Petersburg - a total of 12 notebooks. As a singer, choirmaster and pedagogue, he greatly enlivened the concert life of Lithuanian societies. 1895-1916 was St. St. Catherine's Church organist and leader of a professional choir (12 participants).in 1899 visited Regensburg in the summer, 1900-1905. visited Italy, Germany, Czechoslovakia and Switzerland, studied organ playing in Rome with organ virtuoso Filippo Capocci, became interested in Gregorian chant. 1901 graduated from the St. Petersburg Conservatory and received a diploma of a free artist. 1902-1904 still studied at the St. Petersburg Institute of Archaeology, and studied composition privately with I. Drozdova. 1905-1907 taught at the Catholic Theological Academy (until 1913 and at the theological seminary). in 1908 was treated in Finland, 1909 – Druskininkai, visited Warsaw and his homeland, 1912. - In Germany
