Elena Laumenskienė

Elena Stanekaite Laumenskienė (16 July 1880 – 24 March 1960) was a Lithuanian composer, music educator, and pianist who published some music under the name Elena Stanekaite-Laumyanskene. Also Stanek, Moráuskienė, by marriages.

Laumyanskene was born in Radviliškis. She graduated from the Moscow Conservatory in 1907, where her teachers included Alexander Ilyinsky, Konstantin Igumnov, and Alexander Scriabin. She married Laumenskis.

Laumenskienė taught piano in Vilnius and Moscow. She founded the Lithuanian National Conservatory in Kaunas in 1930, managing it for the next decade. In 1940, she began teaching at the Vilnius Conservatory. During this time, she presented piano recitals in Kaunas, Moscow, and Vilnius. Her compositions were recorded commercially by Melodija (MELOD D 009587/8). She died in Vilnius.