Ona Narbutienė was a Lithuania

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n musicologist and educator. She received the Lithuanian National Prize

Lithuanian National Prize

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 for arts and culture in 1999, and was the author of a number of articles on Lithuanian music history and several books on Lithuanian composers and musical personalities.

Narbutienė was born in a family of Lithuanian officer and spent her childhood in Klaipėda

Klaipeda

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. In 1949 metais she was arrested in Vilnius

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 and deported to Siberia

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, Irkutsk Oblast, where she was forced to work in brick factory.