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 | | In 1889, he was sent to Plunge where he studied at the orchestral school founded by Prince Michal Oginski who, having noted the boy's outstanding abilities, paid for him to enter the Warsaw Conservatory in 1894. |
 | | There, he initially studied the piano with Sygietynski (who was, besides, an influential critic and novelist), and later entered Zygmunt Noskowski's composition class. |
 | | Warsaw offered Ciurlionis the opportunity to hear the works of Wagner and become acquainted with the writing of Hugo, Ibsen, Merezhkovsky, Nietzsche, Poe, Przybyszewski and Wilde. |
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