Andrejs Jurjāns was a Latvian composer and musicologist. He was Latvia's first classical composer, having composed instrumental pieces and cantatas.
Musicians born in the 1850s 6
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Andrejs Jurjāns was a Latvian composer and musicologist. He was Latvia's first classical composer, having composed instrumental pieces and cantatas. Jurjāns also studied and collected more than 6000 pieces of Latvian folklore, among them 3000 songs, which he compiled in six books, called Latvju tautas mūzikas materiāli.
Category
Musicians
Type
Singer / Musician
Status
deceased
Dates
Lived 1856 to 1922 · aged 65
Written about in
15 languages
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