Jāzeps Vītols
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Jāzeps Vītols was a Latvian composer, pedagogue and music critic. He is considered one of the fathers of Latvian classical music.
Jāzeps Vītols
St. Petersburg Conservatory, 1913
1 lats coin commemorating Vītols' 150th birthday, 2013.
Jāzeps Vītols Latvian Academy of Music, formerly the Riga Conservatory, is a higher music conservatory in Riga, Latvia. The junior institute is the Emīls Dārziņš Music School.
Jāzeps Vītols
…Latvia to conduct the Latvian National Opera. The following year, he established the first Latvian Conservatory of Music, which was later renamed the Jāzeps Vītols Latvian Academy of Music in his honor, and he ran the composition classes there between 1919 and 1944. His most prominent students during his tenure were Jānis Ivanovs, Ādolfs…
Main building of the Academy